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Modern household energy consumption has increased significantly because of various lifestyle factors from gadgets to electric vehicles and thereby exhausting natural resources like fossil fuels which are used conventionally for generating electricity and also contributing to environmental pollution. So, the production of energy through renewable energy sources, such as wind, and solar, has been encouraged globally by the Government with the aid of subsidies. This paper addresses the essence of energy production through wind for domestic purposes with a funnel-like duct-shaped arrangement for wind turbines. The air is taken into the duct-shaped wind turbines omnidirectionally without the requirement of a separate mechanism. The duct shape fulfills the purpose of concentrating and increasing the velocity of wind onto the wind turbine. This has a significant effect on the power generation because the output power generated is directly proportional to the wind velocity of cube power. These innovative systems generate electricity even for the low wind speed with a minimal cost setup. This paper discusses a prototype of the proposed system design which can be assembled using locally available material in a day or two. This is capable of producing 0.5 to 0.6-unit electricity per day. The prototype was tested and results were validated by using simulation results in CFD FLUENT
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Raju, S.V.S.K.P., Govindaraju, M., Kumar, T.S. (2021). Applicability of Low-Cost Duct-Shaped Wind Turbine for Domestic Purpose and Low Wind Speed. In: Rao, Y.V.D., Amarnath, C., Regalla, S.P., Javed, A., Singh, K.K. (eds) Advances in Industrial Machines and Mechanisms. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1769-0_37
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