Investigation of Site Selection & Designing of Dual Rotor Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine System for small scale site at RGPV Hill Top
Keywords:
Wind Energy Aerodynamics, WAsP, Wind Rose, OWC, Wind Atlas, AEP, Ansys Fluent-CFD, Computational Flow Optimization, Gearbox, CATIA.Abstract
Renewable energy resources like wind energy is one of the most significant and rapidly developing
renewable energy on this planet. For the next leap in the wind energy conversion technologies, we are under adherence
not only to face with the environment challenges but also to conserve natural ecosystem. The majority of wind turbines
currently in operation have the conventional concept design; single rotor wind turbine and electric generator. Recently,
Dual-Rotor wind turbine (DRWT) has been introduced to the market. This review paper is concerned on investigation of
site selection, design, development and fabrication of Dual Rotor wind turbine system on the basis of wind flow
characteristic at RGPV Hill-top. The purpose of this article is to addressing the general aspects of this area of
knowledge and contextualizing it to perform an investigation on wind flow characteristics and to determine the Annual
Energy Production (AEP) of existing wind turbines installed at the same site. In this work, the recorded time series wind
data fetched by the NRG Symphonie Data logger wind mast installed at Energy Park, RGPV campus. This review article
is for presentation on research on the aerodynamics of wind turbine blade using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
and Design of Dual rotor Gearbox technological system on CATIA software. A counter-rotating wind turbine having two
rotors rotating in opposite directions on the same axis is proposed to improve the aerodynamic performance of a wind
turbine wind turbine blade is most important component to produce electricity from wind. An enhanced understanding of
how small wind turbines interact with wind turn out to be essential. The design unit is composed of the tandem wind
rotors, whose front and rear diameters are 1.0 meter and 3.0 meter respectively. Wind turbine blades are subjected to
different types of forces. Currently research has concentrated to improving the aerodynamics performances of wind
turbine blade through wind tunnel testing and theoretical studies. However wind turbine simulation through
computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software offers easy solution to aerodynamics blade analysis problem. The
challenges of optimisation within other aerodynamics fields were identified.
