Fig. 12. Diagram of the installation of the studied Savonius turbine [89]. The flow direction of the wind keeps horizontally and the magnitude is 12 m/s, which is the typically rated speed of a wind turbine. The height of the step is set to 5.0 m (considering high-rise buildings of ...
The wing of the Savonius type wind turbine has a problem of being heavy and expensive. Solution The blade of the windmill was made of flexible material such as cloth. In addition, the structure is folded or lowered by a rope which is integrated with the rotary shaft, and is wound or ...
The aim of the present study is to design a cheap high efficient vertical axis drag wind turbine. The concept chosen is a six-bladed Savonius rotor. Among all the drag turbines available on the market, no model with wind shield has been ...
(a) Schematic diagram of the test setup for modified Savonius turbine. (b) Pictorial representation of test setup for modified Savoniusturbine. A brake drum dynamometer is used for loading the Savonius turbine. The weighing pan, pulley, and spring balance (Salter make, accuracy of 2.5 gm) ...
end surfaces 5A and 6a of the blades 5 and 6, and a generator 3 which is generated by the rotation of the blades 5 and 6, and the shaft part 4 is A Savonius type wind turbine 2 and a generator 3 are integrally formed with a holding member 10 for holding the conductor 7.Diagram...