| Summary: | 碩士 === 明道大學 === 光電暨能源工程學系碩士班 === 100 === To address the lack of energy and global warming problem, people should develop clean and renewable energy resources. Renewable energy development is the world trends and is also the energy policy of Taiwan. The record shows that wind power generation worldwide has expanded with an annual growth rate of 25 percent since 1990. In recent years, the worldwide wind turbine installation capacity has dramatically increased. The global wind turbine market is expected to continue growing rapidly and stably, making wind turbines an increasingly important energy source.
Since 2007, MingDao University has set up a 2kW VAWT prototype that is test verified to have excellent performance. In 2010, to reach the goal of reducing carbon emissions and saving energy, the Ministry of Economic Affairs granted us a research project to develop the 4kW VAWT to provide the electrical power for small families or public power use in local communities.
Emerging markets need small sized VAWT (vertical-axis wind turbine) for residential energy supplement. MingDao university wind power R&D team has developed a 4kW VAWT system is response to this need. The development items include innovative blades, generator, power control and mast design. The newly developped 4kW VAWT system demonstrates superior performance. The average VAWT efficiency is 0.24 and the average Cp is 0.30. The preliminary results showed this approach has potential for future applications.
Keywords : VAWT, Renewable Energy, Innovative Blades
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