25-08-2017, 09:32 PM
Abstracts: Majority of wind turbines are of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWT). Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines are having different components, in which blade is used to resist wind and to produce power. But use of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines produces problem of resonance issues and material fatigue due to oscillating power output, since the standard design does not allow controlling the orientation of the rotor blades. Although Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines are the mainstream of commercial wind turbines at present, we have seen a renewed interest in Vertical Axis Wind Turbines recently. The contributions in terms of energy production and reliability benefits of including wind energy conversion systems in power systems are dependent on a wide range of factors including the wind-speed characteristics and the wind turbine generator design parameters, such as the cut-in, rated and cut-out wind speed.To overcome these problems one way is to use of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT). A scope of the present work focuses on the Vertical Axis Wind Turbines.