A Comprehensive Review and the Efficiency Analysis of Horizontal and Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
Open Access
- 23 June 2021
- journal article
- Published by Modestum Ltd in European Journal of Sustainable Development Research
- Vol. 5 (3), em0163
- https://doi.org/10.21601/ejosdr/11001
Abstract
The Wind has the potential as an alternative source of renewable energy. Natural wind from the earth’s atmosphere is captured before converted into mechanical energy and then electrical energy. This paper presents a comparison of the efficiency of the horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) and vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT). The efficiency is determined using SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation considering the wind scenario, a constant wind speed of 5 km/h with constant wind direction. It has been found that the drag coeffiecient of HAWT, VAWT–Savonius and VAWT– Darrieus are 0.5175, 0.2605 and 13.5622 respectively. This paper also proposes building a wind farm in Seamatan where the average wind speed is highest in Sarawak, Malaysia ranging from 4 km/h to 9 km/h.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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