FYP Presentation

Study, Fabrication and Testing of Helical Blades Vertical Axis

Wind Turbine (HBVAWT)

By:
Ali Usman 16-ME-152 Supervised by:
Jazib Sohail 16-ME-136 Mr. Rizwan Ullah
Ali Raza 16-ME-195
Hassan Arshad Panu 16-ME-180
Co- Supervised by
Mr. Shahbaz Naqvi
 Table of Contents

1. Background
2. Problem Statement/Aim &Objective
3. Working principle
4. Literature Review
5. Methodology
6. Requirements
7. Gantt Chart
8. Applications
9. Reference

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 Background

• Energy crisis

• 90-95% of fossil fuel consumption

• Shortage of Fossil fuel

• Alternate sources
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 Aim & Objectives
Aim
Study, Fabrication and Testing of Helical Blades Vertical
Axis Wind Turbine

Objectives
•Designing of small scale HBVAWT

•Fabrication of HBVAWT prototype

•Testing of prototype under various geospatial conditions

•Analysis of Numerical, Analytical and Experimental Results

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 Working Principle

• Turbine extract energy from the air

• Convert the wind energy into mechanical energy

• Shaft of the wind turbine is attach to a pulley

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 Working Principle

Ω=Rotational Speed P=Wind power

Q = rotor torque
Cp = Cofficent of Power
A= Swept Area 5
 Literature Review
Ref .Author year Main Finding
1.Arturo R. 2015 Analytical calculations for Helical vertical Axis wind

et.al turbine
2.Dr .Nader ,S. 2017 Testing performance of Helical wind turbine
et.al
Mathematical Modeling and CFD Analysis Test of
3.Dowon H.et. 2018 100-W Helical Vertical Axis Wind Turbine.
al

4. Vinaya,K. Field testing of Model helical Bladed hydrokinetic

et.al 2018 turbine for small scale power generation

5. Young,B. 2012 Experiment validation in helical vertical axis tur

et.al Gap:
Research power generation from marine currents
Study, Fabrication and Testing Helical blade Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

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 Methodology
HBVAWT

•Reading of book
Literature Review
•Reading of papers

•Part Modeling in Solid works

Design and •Computational Modeling in
Modeling
ANSYS Fluent/CFX

• .
Fabrication •Chitral Engineering
works/Tetrapak

•RPM/Torque/Wind
Testing velocity/World Weather

• MATlab, Excel
Analysis of Result Origin Pro 7
 Requirements

Instruments used

• Anemometer
• Tachometer
• Wind vane
• Prony Brake Mechanism
• Meteorological Data

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Gantt Chart

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 Application

The turbine will serve various different applications to ensure that

is gives the best possible results. These application are following:

• Work efficiently irrespective of wind direction.

• Used as a secondary source of power in houses .
• Powering street lights
• Charging stations in walking areas
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 References

[1]. Arturo, R., 2015. Vertical axis wind turbines. University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, 1.
[2]. Dr.Nader, S., MacLean, A., Gray, N.C., Lewis, J.H. and Newall, A.P.,
Arrowind Corp, 2017. Testing and Performance of Helical wind turbine.
U.S. Patent 7,344,353.
[3]. Dowon, H., Jeong, J.I., Pan, J.K. and Ryu, K.W., 2018. Mathematical
Modeling and CFD Analysis of Helical vertical axis wind turbine. 79,
pp.167-176.
[4]. Vinaya, K., Sullivan John T, 2018. Field testing of Model helical Bladed
hydrokinetic turbine for small scale power generation. U.S. Patent
Application 12/587,168.
[5]. Young, B., Kedare, S.B. and Prabhu, S.V., 2012. Experiment validation in
helical vertical axis power generation from marina currents, 34(3), pp.521-
529.
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Thank You!

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