OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SOLAR ENHANCED MAGNUS EFFECT WIND TURBINE CONCEPT

Abstract

The conventional sources of energy like thermal power plant, power generating from fossil fuels etc were the main contributors in the energy scenario earlier but due to increasing earth temperature i.e. global warming due to pollution, and declining of fossil fuels invoke us to think of more reliable and eco friendly sources of energy and makes us shift to the renewable sources of energy to extract power and satisfy our need. We are presenting here that how to optimize Solar Enhanced Magnus Effect Based Wind Turbine using GA technique with MATLAB software. In the present study, power generation from a novel wind turbine is optimized, this turbine utilizes the Magnus Effect along with solar panels on the cylinders(rotating cylinders are used in place of wings) to harness the wind energy. In this wind turbine, wings (aerodynamic) are replaced by the rotating cylinders and it is shown that aerodynamic efficiency of such a novel turbine is more than the conventional wind turbine. The body structure of cylinders(rotating cylinders that act as wings) are covered by the solar panels so that at every instant of time some area of cylinder is covered with the solar panel and some energy will be extracted from sun also. In this study, values of some parameters are assumed to determine the maximum power at a particular cylinder radius and angular rotation of cylinders.