Analysis of Cost Effective Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (CEVAWT)

H. Shaikh[1], A. Arjun[1], R. Kumbhar[2]
[1]SVERI's College of Engineering, Pandharpur, Maharashtra, India
[2]WIL Walchandnagar, Pandharpur, Maharashtra, India
Published in 2014

Wind turbines are the conventional type of energy source. The main focus of this work is the analysis and fabrication of cost effective VAWT. Cost of the turbine is reduced by low cost material and minimizing its total weight. There are two main types of the wind turbines i.e. Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine and Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. Savonious VAWT is preferable for energy generation, because it has more advantages than the HAWT. The analysis will give the performance of turbine at different wind speed. This work gives the reduction the cost of the VAWT with available resources. The design of main parts of turbine like shaft, blades etc. is done by using torsion and bending formula. On the basis of the shaft design, we decided dimensions of the other parts of turbine. The turbine is having six blades and 12 connectors.