MINI MOBILE WIND POWER EXTRACTOR

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements

of the degree of
Bachelor of Engineering

by

Chinmay Nair
Sayuj Nair

Melwyn Xavier

Under the Guidance of

Prof. Pradeepkumar suryavanshi

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DON BOSCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
MUMBAI UNIVERSITY
2016-2017
 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the project entitled “MINI MOBILE WIND POWER EXTRACTOR” is
a bonafide work of Chinmay Nair (B 46), Sayuj Nair(B 47) and Melwyn Xavier( A 7 ) submitted
to the University of Mumbai in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of the degree of
Graduate in Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical).

Prof. Pradeepkumar suryavanshi

(Guide)

_____________ ___________________
Dr. RK Sarangi Dr. Prasanna Nambiar
(Head of Department) (Principal)
 Project Report Approval for B. E

This project report entitled “MINI MOBILE WIND POWER EXTRACTOR”

by Chinmay Nair, Sayuj Nair and Melwyn Xavier is approved for the degree of Bachelor of
Engineering (Mechanical)

Examiners

1. ________________

2. ________________

Date : 2 May 2017

Place : kurla (west)

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We are grateful to Don Bosco Institute of Technology, the Principal Dr.Prasanna Nambiar and
our HOD, Dr. RK Sarangi for providing the necessary resources for the completion of the project.

We would like to express our gratitude to Prof. pradeepkumar suryavanshi for his constant
encouragement, support and guidance during the entire course of the project.

We would also like to thank our project Co-ordinators Mandar Damle and Cleta Pereira for their
support and guidance

We express our sincere thanks to all those who have directly and indirectly helped us in the
completion of this project.
 ABSTRACT

The consumption of electric power has become the measure of standard of living of the society in
today’s world. Most of our electricity comes from fossil fuels and results in emission of greenhouse
gases. One of the sustainable alternatives is to harness wind energy for generation of electricity.
Worldwide, wind energy is being harnessed in both giant utility-scale installations and small-scale
turbines for a single home. For remote off-grid dwellers wind energy is an excellent source of
electricity and on-grid population can offset rising power costs.
In this work, we present a miniature wind turbine that can be used to support electricity
requirements of a single home in remote locations. We have designed a miniature horizontal axis
turbine with a diameter of 320 mm and it consists of four blades. We have performed wind turbine
blade design and aerodynamic simulations using QBlade software and ANSYS. The twist angle
for the blade decreases along the blade length from hub to tip from 58 degrees to 7 degrees. For
tip speed ratio ranging from 3 to 6 with wind speed of 12 m/s, the coefficient of power of our
turbine is 0.5. We have observed that our turbine produces 19.8 watt of power for wind speed of
12 m/s and 1000 rpm which increases to 52.4 watt at 2000 rpm.
The experimental results are in good agreement with the simulation results. The cost of
manufacturing is quiet less when compared to small wind turbine models currently available in the
market. Thus, we have contributed by designing a miniature and cost effective wind turbine for
rural household applications. For future work, we will focus on improving our design to increase
the power output without changing the overall size of the turbine.
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
SrNo Topic Page number
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Types of Windmills 2
1.2 Small windmills 7
2 Methodology 9
3 Literature Survey 10
4 Design 12
4.1 Betz Limit 13
4.2 Selection of Aerofoil 13
4.3 Analysis of Aerofoil cross section 14
4.4 Selection of Tip Speed Ratio 15
4.5 Blade Design and Calculations 17
5 Procurement and Manufacturing details 22
5.1 Stand / Fixture Assembly 22
5.2 Coupling 22
5.3 Hub 23
5.4 Nose 24
5.5 Generator 24
5.6 Blades 26
5.7 Electrical connections 28
6 Testing and Results 29
6.1 Cost of materials 31
7 Conclusion 32
7.1 Future scope 32
8 References 35
 TABLE OF FIGURES
SrNo Topic Page
number
1 Vertical axis turbine 2
2 Savonius turbine 3
3 Flapping Panel Wind Turbine 3
4 Darrieus turbine 4
5 Giromill Wind Turbine 4
6 Horizontal axis turbine 5
7 Up-Wind Turbines 5
8 Down-Wind Turbines 6
9 Shrouded Wind Turbines 6
10 Types of windmills 8
11 Windmill mounted on the vehicle 9
12 A blade element sweeps out an annular ring 10
13 Aerofoil Nomenclature 12
14 The efficiency of an optimum turbine with rotation (Hansen, 2008, p. 40) 13
15 Lift coefficient vs Angle of Attack, Drag coefficient vs Angle of Attack 14
16 Control Volume (C-Mesh) 15
17 Aerofoil shape 15
18 Contours of Pressure 15
19 Contours of Velocity 15
20 Blade Geometry 16
21 Cp vs TSR 16
22 Cl/Cd vs α for various Aerofoils 17
23 Chord Distribution along the length of the blade 18
24 Wind Turbine Blade generated from Qblade 19
25 Wind Turbine Assembly generated from Solidworks 19
26 Cp vs TSR 20
27 Torque vs TSR 20
28 Power generated vs wind velocity (1000 rpm) 20
29 Power generated vs wind velocity (2000 rpm) 21
30 Coupling 23
31 Hub 23
32 Nose 24
33 Generator 25
34 Figure blades and its assembly 26
35 Electrical connections 27
36 Automobile testing 29
37 Figure Wind Tunnel Testing 30
38 Highway 32
39 Pressure and velocity CFD analysis of the charger 33
40 Isometric view of the charger 33
41 Implementation on trains 34
 LIST OF TABLES

SrNo Topic Page number

1 𝝀 and Number of Blades 8
2 Chord length and Twist angles for difference values of r 18
3 Automobile test results 29
4 Wind tunnel test results 30
5 Roof test results 31
6 Cost of materials 31
 NOMENCLATURE

Symbol Description
α Angle Of Attack
β Twist Angle
λ Tip Speed Ratio
ω Angular Velocity
𝒗 Tangential Velocity
Re Reynold’s Number
𝝋𝒑 Pitch Angle
R Rotor diameter
r Elemental Diameter
X Tip Speed Ratio
Cl Lift Coefficient
Cd Lift to drag coefficient
 DECLARATION

We declare that this written submission represents our ideas in our own words and where other
ideas or words have been included; we have adequately cited and referenced the original sources.
We also declare that we have adhered to all principles of academic honesty and integrity and have
not misrepresented or fabricated or falsified any idea/data/fact/source in our submission.
We understand that any violation of the above will be cause for disciplinary action by the Institute
and can also evoke penal action from the sources which have thus not been properly cited or from
whom proper permission has not been taken when needed.

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Sayuj Nair

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Chinmay Nair

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Melwyn Xavier