COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WIND TURBINE POWER GENERATION FOR DIFFRENT TURBINE ROTORS

Abstract

Ever since the industrialization has occurred, there has been a great increase in the burning of fossil fuels to meet the rising energy demands. The use of such fuels causes emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases which leads to global warming. This may have a highly injurious impact to the life on Earth. One way to alleviate this is to reduce the use of such kind of fuels. In recent years, wind turbines have become acceptable alternatives for electrical energy generation by fossil or nuclear power plants, because of the environmental as well as economic benefits. Power is extracted from flowing air with the help of the wind turbines which produce mechanical power or electrical power. For generating the mechanical power windmills are used, & for pumping the water wind pumps are used. Wind power is a substitute for the fossil fuels, which is renewable, spread over large scale, & clean In my project I Am going to deal with how power is generated from wind energy and methods of increasing power and reducing losses and also will do analytic study for optimizing output power by using calculative softwares, such as wind turbine calculators, Foilsim3 etc.,Wind turbine calculator uses the site data and wind turbine input to produce output power for particular turbine for a particular site and also produces power coefficient curve, power curve etc.,Foilsim3 software produces different lift and drag ratio for different featured airfoil and helpful in comparing ratio to find better airfoil for fixed values of angle of attack, altitude, wind speed , camber, thickness etc. .