Development of the Performance of Small Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blade by Optimizing its Chord Using QBlade Software
| Author(s) | : | Mr. Akash Mohokar, Mr. N. W. Kale |
| Institution | : | Scholar M.E (Thermal), Dept. of mechanical Engineering, PRMIT & R Badnera. Amravati, Maharashtra, India |
| Published In | : | Vol. 4, Issue 11 — November 2017 |
| Page No. | : | 790-796 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
In order to optimally explore and utilize wind energy, we have to obtain the optimum design of turbine blade. Alot of study has been carried out for the optimization of wind turbine blade.There are many factors which are important to take into consideration while designing the turbine blade. Therefore,for that purpose, For this study we have used the QBlade software. The QBlade software is based on blade elementmomentum theory. Which gives the whole knowledge about the effects of angle of twist on the performance of smallhorizontal axis wind turbine blade. We have experimented different blade designs in this study by changing the chord of windturbine blade. It ranges from 30 to 120 mm and results are observed critically and it was found that at 90 mm chord theperformance of blade is optimum it gives maximum power output.
Mr. Akash Mohokar, Mr. N. W. Kale, “Development of the Performance of Small Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blade by Optimizing its Chord Using QBlade Software”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 11, pp. 790-796, November 2017.
