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Investigation of self-starting and high rotor solidity on the performance of a three S1210 blade H-type Darrieus rotor

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  • Singh, M.A.
  • Biswas, A.
  • Misra, R.D.

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Energy is an essential ingredient for socio-economic development and economic growth of a country. Energy is available in two different forms, fast depleting or non-renewable (coal, fuel, natural gas) and renewable (solar, wind, hydro etc). Wind is one of the potential renewable energy sources due to its abundance in the atmosphere in different scales of high, medium and low ranges. Vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) can be installed in low wind speed regime for performing various small-scale functions ranging from electrifying a built environment to pumping water especially in remote places where grid-connected electricity is a scarce. Amongst various VAWT rotors, H-type Darrieus rotor has become more popular in the built environment for their straight blade designs and simpler construction features. However, the major problem facing such VAWT rotor is their non-self-starting characteristics due to symmetrical blade designs. Replacing VAWT's conventional blades with unsymmetrical blades and increasing rotor solidity could make potential solution to the above problem. However, there is still hardly any quantitative measure of the self-starting, torque, power coefficient etc. with increased rotor solidity so as to obtain some performance insights of high solidity unsymmetrical blade H-Darrieus rotor in low wind speed condition. In this paper a three-bladed H-type Darrieus rotor equipped with unsymmetrical S1210 blades is investigated first for its self-starting characteristics with different rotor solidities (from 0.8 to 1.2) at various azimuthal positions. Then the power coefficients (Cp) are evaluated for these solidities at various wind speeds. It will be shown that high blade solidity is in fact desirable for overall better performance of the rotor. There is an optimum rotor solidity at which power coefficient is the highest. And the maximum Cp of 0.32 is obtained for rotor solidity 1.0 and wind speed 5.7 m/s. The results are compared with some other symmetrical/unsymmetrical blade H-Darrieus rotors. Though the operating range is reduced but, for higher static and dynamic torque and comparable power coefficient with respect to existing rotors, the present rotor could be used for various small-scale applications especially that require high torque like pumping, grinding etc.

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  • Singh, M.A. & Biswas, A. & Misra, R.D., 2015. "Investigation of self-starting and high rotor solidity on the performance of a three S1210 blade H-type Darrieus rotor," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 381-387.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:76:y:2015:i:c:p:381-387
    DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.11.027
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