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Performance Analysis of PLA Material Based Micro-Turbines for Low Wind Speed Applications

Various studies have been conducted in recent years to find solutions to the issues in wind energy conversion systems. A 100W horizontal axis micro wind turbine is built for low wind speed applications in this work. The Blade Element Momentum theory approach was used to design the 100W micro wind tu...

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Autores principales: Aljafari, Belqasem, Samithas, Devakirubakaran, Balachandran, Praveen Kumar, Anandan, Sambandam, Babu, Thanikanti Sudhakar
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9573711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36236130
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14194180
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author Aljafari, Belqasem
Samithas, Devakirubakaran
Balachandran, Praveen Kumar
Anandan, Sambandam
Babu, Thanikanti Sudhakar
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description Various studies have been conducted in recent years to find solutions to the issues in wind energy conversion systems. A 100W horizontal axis micro wind turbine is built for low wind speed applications in this work. The Blade Element Momentum theory approach was used to design the 100W micro wind turbine blade. The wind turbine blade 3D model was created using the CREO CAD 3.0 software. Based on the aerodynamic studies, the airfoil S9000 is chosen among others for generating high power at low wind speed. The density, Young’s modulus, and the Poisson ratio of the proposed wind turbine blade model with acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polylactic acid (PLA) materials were compared. ABS and PLA materials were investigated using a 0.33 mm layer of infill ranging from 10% to 100%. PLA and ABS output values were compared in terms of deformation, equivalent stress, and equivalent strain. PLA materials, on the other hand, have less deformation and greater structural properties than ABS materials. The wind blade structural analysis was performed in ANSYS 15 software, and the details of experimental and simulated results are presented in this paper.
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spelling pubmed-95737112022-10-17 Performance Analysis of PLA Material Based Micro-Turbines for Low Wind Speed Applications Aljafari, Belqasem Samithas, Devakirubakaran Balachandran, Praveen Kumar Anandan, Sambandam Babu, Thanikanti Sudhakar Polymers (Basel) Article Various studies have been conducted in recent years to find solutions to the issues in wind energy conversion systems. A 100W horizontal axis micro wind turbine is built for low wind speed applications in this work. The Blade Element Momentum theory approach was used to design the 100W micro wind turbine blade. The wind turbine blade 3D model was created using the CREO CAD 3.0 software. Based on the aerodynamic studies, the airfoil S9000 is chosen among others for generating high power at low wind speed. The density, Young’s modulus, and the Poisson ratio of the proposed wind turbine blade model with acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polylactic acid (PLA) materials were compared. ABS and PLA materials were investigated using a 0.33 mm layer of infill ranging from 10% to 100%. PLA and ABS output values were compared in terms of deformation, equivalent stress, and equivalent strain. PLA materials, on the other hand, have less deformation and greater structural properties than ABS materials. The wind blade structural analysis was performed in ANSYS 15 software, and the details of experimental and simulated results are presented in this paper. MDPI 2022-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9573711/ /pubmed/36236130 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14194180 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_sort performance analysis of pla material based micro-turbines for low wind speed applications
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9573711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36236130
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14194180
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