Abstract
In recent times, the demand for renewable energy has increased very rapidly. Among all the renewable energy sources, wind energy is one of the most reliable options due to its high energy generation and zero CO2 outflows to the climate. Wind turbines are a type of device which produces energy from the wind. Wind turbines are primarily categorized into two types, horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) and vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). HAWTs are popular to use commercially, but the development and research on the VAWTs are increasing gradually nowadays. In this present work, a brief review of the performances of two-bladed and three-bladed H-Darrieus rotors has been done considering different performance parameters like tip speed ratio, solidity, and power coefficient. It is seen that a two-bladed H-Darrieus rotor having a NACA0018 profile with a solidity of 0.12, tip speed ratio (TSR) of 4.5 showed the optimum power coefficient compared to the other investigations of similar rotors. Again, for the three-bladed H-Darrieus rotor, the highest power coefficient is achieved by the LS-0413 blade at a TSR of four which is higher than the NACA0018 blade for the same rotor. This study deals with the research progress of two-bladed rotor and three-bladed H-Darrieus rotor which can be helpful for future researchers to further improve the designs and performances of the same.
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Medda, R., Gope, D., Chakraborty, A., Debnath, N., Das, S., Sengupta, A.R. (2022). A Brief Review on the Performances of Two-Bladed and Three-Bladed H-Darrieus Rotors. In: Sikdar, B., Prasad Maity, S., Samanta, J., Roy, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Communication, Devices and Computing. ICCDC 2021. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 851. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9154-6_7
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