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D ESIGN AND WORKING PRINCIPAL
OF THE WIND TURBINE
BY
:
1)K.SAI VENKAT (15BEM0053)
2)AKHILAN(15BEM0012)
3)DINESH(15BME0108)
4)ASHRAF(15BME0427)
ABSTRACT :
Wind turbines are becoming popular in the renewable energy world.

Manufacturers always try to show the good sides of wind energy to advertise.
However, everything always has the bad side of its own. The research was to
identify the negative impacts of having wind turbine. Cost of wind turbines, cost
for maintenance, area where wind turbine is broken down, taxes, and wind data
are needed to find out what are the negative impacts of wind energy to approach
the problem. High cost of wind turbines, high cost for maintenance, lots of broken
wind turbines were left idle, taxes increase, and inefficient wind is the results of
the research. To conclude, wind turbine is not A good source for renewable energy
as right now due to all the negative impacts of it.
INTRODUCTION
Power has been extracted from the wind over hundreds of years with historic designs,
known as windmills, constructed from wood, cloth and stone for the purpose of pumping
water or grinding corn.Historic designs, typically large, heavy and inefficient, were replaced
in the 19th century by fossil fuel engines and the implementation of a nationally distributed
power network. A greater understanding of aerodynamics and advances in materials,
particularly polymers, has led to the return of wind energy extraction in the latter half of the
20th century. Wind power devices are now used to produce electricity, and commonly
termed wind turbines.The orientation of the shaft and rotational axis determines the first
classification of the wind turbine. A turbine with a shaft mounted horizontally parallel to the
ground is known as a horizontal axis wind turbine or (HAWT). A vertical axis wind turbine
(VAWT) has its shaft normal to the ground
TYPES OF WIND TURBINES:
• HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES
• VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES

TYPES OF WIND TURBINES:
HOW WIND TURBINES GENERATE
ELECTRICITY:
When the blades of a wind turbine turn, they rotate the axis which feeds into a
generator. This creates a DC current which can then be passed through an
inverter that changes it to AC, suitable for powering your home. If you are
using it just as your own power source then you can charge up batteries or if
you are producing an excess amount of power then you can sell it to the grid
and make a profit on the electricity you produce through the feed in tariff.
COMPONENTS:
–Wind turbines convert wind energy to electrical energy for distribution. Conventional
horizontal axis turbines can be divided into three components:
• The rotor, which is approximately 20% of the wind turbine cost, includes the blades for
converting wind energy to low speed rotational energy.
• The generator, which is approximately 34% of the wind turbine cost, includes the electrical
generator, the control electronics, and most likely a gear box adjustable-speed drive or
continuously variable transmission component for converting the low-speed incoming
rotation to high-speed rotation suitable for generating electricity.
• The surrounding structure, which is approximately 15% of the wind turbine cost, includes
the tower and rotor yaw mechanism.
Turbine monitoring and diagnostics:
– Materials that are typically used for the rotor blades in wind turbines are
composites, as they tend to have a high stiffness, high strength, high fatigue
resistance, and low weight. Typical resins used for these composites include
polyester and epoxy, while glass and carbon fibers have been used for the
reinforcing material.Construction may use manual layup techniques or composite
resin injection molding. As the price of glass fibers is only about one tenth the
price of carbon fiber, glass fiber is still dominant.
GLASS AND CARBON FIBERS:
The stiffness of composites is determined by the stiffness of fibers
and their volume content. Typically, e-glass fibers are used as main
reinforcement in the composites. Typically, the glass/epoxy
composites for wind blades contain up to 75 weight % glass. This
increases the stiffness, tensile and compression strength. A
promising source of the composite materials in the future is glass
fibers with modified compositions like s-glass, r-glass etc. Some
other special glasses developed by owens corning are ECRGLAS,
advantex and most recently windstrand glass fibers.
WIND TURBINE SPACING:
On most horizontal wind turbine farms, a spacing of about 6–10 times the
rotor diameter is often upheld. However, for large wind farms distances of
about 15 rotor diameters should be more economical, taking into account
typical wind turbine and land costs. This conclusion has been reached by
research conducted by Charles meneveau of the johns hopkins university,
and johan meyers of leuven university in belgium, based on computer
simulations that take into account the detailed interactions among wind
turbines (wakes) as well as with the entire turbulent atmospheric boundary
layer.
Recent research by john dabiri of caltech suggests that vertical wind
turbines may be placed much more closely together so long as an
alternating pattern of rotation is created allowing blades of neighbouring
turbines to move in the same direction as they approach one another
WIND TURBINES ON PUBLIC DISPLAY
A few localities have exploited the attention-getting nature of wind turbines

by placing them on public display, either with visitor centers around their
bases, or with viewing areas farther away. The wind turbines are generally of
conventional horizontal-axis, three-bladed design, and generate power to feed
electrical grids, but they also serve the unconventional roles of technology
demonstration, public relations, and education.
REFERANCE
1.Hau, E. Wind turbines, fundamentals, technologies, application,
economics, 2nd ed.; Springer: berlin, germany, 2006.
2.Dominy, R.; Lunt, P.; Bickerdyke, A.; Dominy, J. Self-starting
capability of a darrieus turbine. Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part A J.
Power energy 2007, 221, 111–120.
3.Burton, T. Wind energy handbook; john wiley & sons ltd.:
Chichester, UK, 2011.
4.Yurdusev, M.A.; Ata, R.; Cetin, N.S. Assessment of optimum tip
speed ratio in wind turbines using artificial neural networks. Energy
2006, 31, 2153–2161.
5.K.Y. Maalawi, M.A. Badr, A practical approach for selecting
optimum wind rotors, renewable energy. 28 (2003) 803-822.
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D ESIGN AND WORKING PRINCIPAL

OF THE WIND TURBINE

Wind turbines are becoming popular in the renewable energy world.

• VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES

A few localities have exploited the attention-getting nature of wind turbines

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