Effect of different types of blades on miniature wind turbine energy harvesting output

Abstract

This paper presents a simulation and experimental setup for miniature wind turbine energy harvesting using different types of material and blades. Three different cut in wind as low as 3.34 m/s, 4.00 m/s and 5.12 m/s were used to evaluate the miniature wind turbine. MATLAB software is used to design and run the simulation of the system. The result shows that type A PVC blades with the radius of 0.035 m provides the highest output with 19.41 V during cut in wind of 5.12 m/s.