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PROJECT REPORT ON

MAGLEV WIND TURBINE

DEPARTMENT OF DIPLOMA IN ELECTRICAL

SHRI K.J. POLYTECHNIC
BHARUCH

Submitted By: -

Guided By:-

Mr. UPEX D. MODI

Mr. M.B.TADVI

Mr. KEYUR R. RANA

Ms. SHAIKH AFSANABANU
Mr. TEJAS R. VASAVA

SHRI K. J. POLYTECHNIC
(Affiliated to Gujarat technological University)

Department of Diploma in Electrical

CERTIFICATE
This is certify that Mr. PINAL PATEL, Mr. HITESH VANZARA, Mr.
KEYUR SURATI and Mr. PRAGNES PATEL Of diploma in electrical
has

completed

their

project

MAGLEV

WIND

TURBINE

Satisfactorily during the Year 2010-11

Date:Signature of guide
Department
________________

________________

Shri M.B.TADVI

Ms. F.Y.MUNSHI

Head of

Examined By:-

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This PSP seminar report shall be incomplete if we do not convey our

heartfelt gratitude to those people from whom We have got considerable support and
encouragement during this seminar. Many people have helped, provided direction, technical
information and advice at all stages of our seminar and its our pleasure to say vote of thanks to
all of them. However, with the help of our seminar guide Mr. M.B.TADVI it seems much
more interesting to write this thesis than we expected.
Also we are very much thankful for our college SHRI K. J. POLYTECHNIC, which
provide us a good study environment & available access to get literature. Besides our friends
showed their kindly help & support in our thesis. Because of them, living in Bharuch & studying
in K.J.polytechnic (Bharuch) is a nice time.

ABSTRACT

This project focuses on the utilization of wind energy as a renewable source. In the
United States alone, wind capacity has grown about 45% to 16.7GW and it continues to grow
with the facilitation of new wind projects. The aim of this major qualifying project is to design
and implement a magnetically levitated vertical axis wind turbine system that has the ability to
operate in both high and low wind speed conditions. Our choice for this model is to showcase
its efficiency in varying wind conditions as compared to the traditional horizontal axis
wind turbine and contribute to its steady growing popularity for the purpose of mass
utilization in the near future as a reliable source of power generation.
The benefits of maglev wind turbines, which use full-permanent magnets to nearly
eliminate friction by "floating" the blades above the base. According to developers, the
technology is capable of scaling to massive sizes, enough to replace 1000 traditional windmills
and power 750 thousand homes. Additional benefits include the ability to generate power with
winds as slow as three miles per hour, operational costs some 50 percent cheaper than windmills,
and an estimated lifespan of 500 years. That all sounds great, but the real proof will come when
these things get put to use, which may happen sooner than you'd think: Development is
proceeding rapidly in both the US and China, with Chinese power company Zhongke Hengyuan
Energy Technology currently building a $5M factory to produce the turbines in capacities from
400 to 5,000 watts.

THIRD PARTY INSPECTION CERTIFICATE

INDEX

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TOPICS

PAGE NO.

Introduction

History

Overview

Types of windmill

16

Types of wind turbine

25

Power

27

Generator

29

Principle and Working

34

Construction

53

10

Circuits

84

11

Material procurement

87

12

Bill of material

91

13

Cost of material

94

14

Advantages and Disadvantages

15

Bibliography

16

Assembly and detailed drawing

LIST OF FIGURES

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FIGURES

PAGE NO.

History

James Blyths vertical wind mill (1891)

First automatically operated wind mill (1887)

Types of wind mill

Smoke mill amesterdam

Vertical axis wind mills

Post mill

Hollow post mill

Tower mill

Smoke mill

Wind turbine

Horizontal axis wind turbine

Darrieus model VAWT

Savonius model VAW

30

54

Construction

58

Design of magnet housing

Actual photo
5

Circuit diagram

61

Further modification

77