Design and Analysis of Shrouded Small-Scale Wind Turbine for Low Wind Speeds

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2018-06-22

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Yildiz, R. Erdem
Ekinci, Abdurrahman

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This work presents design and analysis of a shrouded small scale wind turbine optimized for extremely low wind speeds. In-house FORTRAN code based on Glauert's method are used for preliminary design. QBlade and CFD are used for iterative optimization. Results show that power output can be increased 1.5-2.5 times by using shroud. Additionally, using shroud and optimizing for low wind speed solves starting problem that small scale wind turbines have considerably and increases sustainability of power production.

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General Physics and Astronomy

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66160

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Conference / Seminar