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Effect of Trailing Edge Flaps on Power Coefficient of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Model

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

The field of wind energy has made significant progress, yet there is always room for improving the efficiency and the energy extracted from horizontal axis wind turbines HAWTs . There is interest in new renewable energy, including wind energy. This study aims to investigate the effect of trailing edge flap on the performance of the turbine at different numbers of blades, different blade angles, and flap angles. Therefore, an experimental setup includes a model of wind turbine was constructed. The performance of a HAWT model with trailing edge flaps added is examined in this research using the findings of wind tunnel tests. A model with two, three, and six-bladed rotors with a diameter of 260 mm was employed for the wind tunnel tests. The wind turbine model is tested at various blade angles and wind speeds. The model was initially tested at various blade angles without any flaps, β of 10o, 15o and 20o, with two, three, and six-bladed rotors and secondly the wind turbine model was tested with trailing edge flaps with flap angle, α, of 40o, 50o and 60o. It was found that the use of trailing edge flaps can improve the HAWT performance. It was found that 50o is the best trailing edge flap angle, in the current investigation. An improvement of about 55% is achieved when three-bladed rotor is utilized compared to the reference case's maximum power coefficient, which was measured without any flaps and 24.6% improvement in the maximum power coefficient with a six-bladed rotor.

DOI

10.21608/pserj.2023.194752.1222

Keywords

Wind energy, HAWT, Trailing edge Flap, power coefficient

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Khalil

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

mechanical power engineering / engineering faculty/port said university

Email

m.khalil@eng.psu.edu.eg

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port said

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First Name

Abd Elhady

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Abd Elmotelb

Affiliation

Mechanical Power Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, Port Said, Egypt

Email

abdelhadyelabady@gmail.com

City

Port Said

Orcid

-

First Name

mohamed

Last Name

elsakka

MiddleName

mohamed

Affiliation

mechanical power ,engineering ,port said , Egypt

Email

elsakka@eng.psu.edu.eg

City

port said

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

El-Ghandour

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-

Affiliation

Mechanical Power Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University

Email

mghandour@eng.psu.edu.eg

City

Port Said

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Volume

27

Article Issue

2

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41770

Issue Date

2023-06-01

Receive Date

2023-02-18

Publish Date

2023-06-01

Page Start

55

Page End

63

Print ISSN

1110-6603

Online ISSN

2536-9377

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https://pserj.journals.ekb.eg/article_296975.html

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296,975

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813

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Port-Said Engineering Research Journal

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https://pserj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of Trailing Edge Flaps on Power Coefficient of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Model

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24 Dec 2024