Abstract:
Wind energy is one of the renewable or non-conventional energy sources which is found abundantly in the world and utilized as a best option for power. The objective of the study is to analyze the performance of wind turbine over moving vehicles and to make a prototype for testing of electricity generation. Prototyping of a model for generating electricity using high wind energy generated by fast moving vehicles, converting the energy of the wind into mechanical energy using wind turbine and the mechanical energy into electrical energy by using a generator. The generated electricity can be used in a vehicle for different applications like battery charging, car accessories and mountings such as bulb & frecha lights, chargers, music players, fans, etc.
Wind turbine is designed to be mounted on the body structure of the vehicle to generate electricity in such a way that it must not create any additional drag force rather than the existing drag force due to frontal area and ground friction upon the vehicle. Generally, the methodologies used in this study are turbine blade design analysis, performance evaluation using Ansys, physical drawing using solid-work, prototyping & testing and then discussion of results.
Performance evaluation on NACA63415 blade profile is analyzed using Ansys at different setting angles for higher lift and lower drag production and better results are found at 100in the simulation. Then, the prototype is done accordingly and tested on a rental car which gives us a bulb light when the car moves fast.And also the change in fuel rate required to compensate the motion retardation due to the drag created on the turbine by wind becomes 0.03 litrewhich indicates less drag present since it takes a small amount of fuel upon loading of the system.