Design Objective: Design and build a small-scale wind turbine and calculate its power efficiency.
Role
• Be the team lead and do all the practical work from designing to testing the functionality of the wind turbine.
• Assist in writing the report for the project.
• Assist in writing the report for the project.
Project Requirements
• Design and test a small-scale wind turbine that functioned in the most power-efficient way possible, while being constrained to certain design requirements such as weight, size, and stiffness.
• Free choice in choosing the type of material for the turbine tower.
• Free choice in choosing the type of material for the turbine tower.
Results
• The lightest wind turbine tower of all in the class.
• The efficiency of the turbine was calculated to be 50%.
• The efficiency of the turbine was calculated to be 50%.
