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Wind Turbine Design

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FinalWindTurbine

3D image of the wind turbine.

I designed and built a wind turbine for my senior design project at Tufts. The goal of the project was to design a wind turbine to charge a cellphone battery.

It was a group project and I did the following tasks:

The rest of the documentation can be found here.

Small circuit board I designed and fabricated for power conditioning.

Small circuit board I designed and fabricated for power conditioning. I describe the software  here.

Results

After two unsuccessful designs, my team and I tested the final design (shown in the picture) in the wind tunnel. At a wind speed of 10m/s, blade speed was 5,600 rpm and power output was 7.3 W at 4.3 V. In the future, I want to work on developing a better control system.

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Class project Windturbine Design
Time line Fall 2011
Group Project
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