Wind Charger For Low Wind Speed

Sarafali, Akbar (2015) Wind Charger For Low Wind Speed. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This thesis presents the developement of a wind charger for low speed wind. Wind is the one of the source of electricity distributed generation technology. Nowadays around entire worldwide can produce power by Alternating Current (AC) generator that is a common practice thus the implementation of wind charger. Wind charger is a technology which converting wind energy to electric power. Wind energy is easily accessible anywhere in the world and is one of renewable energy. However, the lower average wind speed become one of the factors wind turbine has not been used widely as alternative method for generating the electric power. Thereby, small scale wind turbine which can generate electric power in low wind speed must be develope. The advantages to use wind generator is environmental friendly refers than portable generator. As practically, wind generator does not use any raw material. But, portable generator uses the fuel or petrol to generate the electricity. On the other hand, by using wind generator we will cut cost during running the system. In this study, there are four different wind charger rotor designs which can operate at low wind speed developed and its performances are assesed by using ANSYS Workbench CFX software. Theoretical calculation have been done to obtain the power output generated and the rotational speed produced by the wind charger rotor.. The performance of the all designs are compared to choose the best and optimized design. Based on the results obtained from the simulation, Design 1, Design 2 and Design 4 are able to rotate at low wind speed condition while Design 3 is not a suitable design for this condition. The comparison between the results proved that the most efficient design is Design 2 since it has higher power output and rotational speed compared to the other designs.

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