Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Performance Based on Rotor Blade Radius

IECON 2021 – 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) 2021
Edvīns Mineiķis, Jānis Zaķis, Aleksandrs Suzdaļenko

Significant amount of lately research is focused on improving performance of Darrieus type vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWT). This research explains the impact of rotor blade radius on tip-speed ratio, rotational frequency, starting wind speed, manufacturing costs and performance coefficient of Darrieus VAWT. To support the proposed explanations, a prototype with variable rotor blade radius was developed and tested in a wind tunnel. The conclusion is that blade radius should be decreased as much as possible until performance coefficient starts decreasing.

Keywords
wind energy conversion; wind tunnels; mechanical factors; performance evaluation
DOI
10.1109/IECON48115.2021.9589582
Hyperlink
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9589582

Mineiķis, E., Zaķis, J., Suzdaļenko, A. Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Performance Based on Rotor Blade Radius. In: IECON 2021 – 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), Canada, Toronto, 13-16 October, 2021. Piscataway: IEEE, 2021, pp.1-6. ISBN 978-1-6654-0256-9. e-ISBN 978-1-6654-3554-3. ISSN 1553-572X. e-ISSN 2577-1647. Available from: doi:10.1109/IECON48115.2021.9589582

Publication language
English (en)