Design and Fabrication of Semi-Automatic Vertical Axis Wind Turbine For Power Generation And Irrigation
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2020-09-16T06:59:03Z
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The imminent depletion of fossil fuels, increasing global warming, rising greenhouse effect, increasing demand of energy resources, low availability of power supplies moves us towards renewable source of energy like wind energy. In India, agriculture plays a vital role in development of food production. Groundwater pumping using electricity is the most common method of irrigation. But frequent power cuts is one of the most common problem source for farmers in our country and they also do not invest in fossil fuel run pump sets, due to high cost. Hence the main goal of our project is to design and fabricate a wind turbine for generating electricity, pumping water from the reservoir and supplying it to farms via drip irrigation. We used 3-bladed vertical axis wind turbine and reciprocating single acting pump in this project. With the aid of bevel gears, the wind turbine shaft is used to run the reciprocating pump. The wind imposes the lifting and dragging type of driving forces on turbine blades. As these forces act on the blade, it rotates and this rotating blade transforms rotary wind turbine movement into reciprocal pump movement. These is also an automation mechanism where a solenoid valve is used to regulate the water supply. Opening and closing of the valve is controlled by an arduino and soil moisture sensor. The water is effectively discharged this way
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Srevarun S, Abhishek, Ganesh S, Nithish N, 1NH16ME093, 1NH16ME003, 1NH16ME028, 1NH16ME068