DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF HELIX AND WIND TURBINE

Abstract

The project is about creating a Helix Wind Turbine and testing its performance. Throughout the course of the study, it is proven that the turbine is much more efficient than its predecessors due to the nature of it grasping wind, and harnessing its energy. Conventional sources of power have become very expensive. Common street lights consume a lot of energy; this project aims to use the wasted energy of the wind to produce renewable energy source to produce enough power to light one or more street light. In this project we are going to design and assemble a helical wind turbine and attach it to one or more streetlights. The main objective of this project is to design and fabricate a helix wind turbine. Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are a type of wind turbine where the main rotor shaft is set vertically. VAWTs offer a number of advantages over traditional horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs). They can be packed closer together in wind farms, allowing more in a given space. This is not because they are smaller, but rather due to the slowing effect on the air that HAWTs have, forcing designers to separate them by ten times their width.

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