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Production of electric power through renewable energy technologies has gained considerable importance in recent years due to the negative impact that conventional energy resources have created on the environment. Wind energy being one of the prominent sources in the renewable energy sector has proven technology for its effective utilization in the field of electrical power generation. The work proposed in the present study focuses on the development of a WECS for a selected location which has average wind speeds ranging between 2.2 and 5 m/s. The initial stage of the work consists of performance analysis of the PVC-based HAWT developed using QBlade software. The aerofoil structure was then analyzed using commercially available CFD software ANSYS (Fluent) Workbench 14.5 and two performance parameters lift and drag coefficient were determined and were found to be 0.665 and 0.09 respectively. The second stage of the paper consists of experimental investigations of the turbine where tip speed ratio (λ) was determined and was found to be 7.19 at the rated wind speed of 9 m/s.
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Koulagi, G., Hosmath, R.S., Madival, A., Revankar, P.P. (2018). Computational and Experimental Investigations on Small Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine for Household Applications. In: Pawar, P., Ronge, B., Balasubramaniam, R., Seshabhattar, S. (eds) Techno-Societal 2016. ICATSA 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53556-2_7
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