Blade design of vertical axis wind turbine for golf car battery charger: article / Muhammad Azizul Mijan

In this paper, the research has been done to design the blades for the small Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) system. There are many factors to be studied to design the best blade including aerodynamic design or airfoil type, coefficient of drag, suitable number of blade in a system, size and chord length of a blade, rotational speed, torque and the output power that can be produced by the shaft All design was drawn using CATIA software before simulated using Star CCM+ software. All of these characteristic will be studied to produce the blades that can capture as much as wind to generate high power and suitable with the application at golf car which is for battery charging. Finally, the conclusion are, the suitable NACA series is NACA 0018 and the best chord length is 50mm because can produce higher drag coefficient, thus the maximum power produced fro the blade is 6.90704 Watt.