Analytical Study In Rotational Motion On Different Blade-Shape Design Of Hawt For Wasted Kinetic Energy Recovery System (Wkers)

Wasted Kinetic Energy Recovery system (WKERS) is a wind renewable gadget to harvest the discharged wind from cooling tower. The WKERS is installed on the cooling tower outlet to capture the wind sources for electrical energy regeneration purpose. This study is to determine the best blade-shape design for a horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) as it is believed that the blade-shape design present a critical part in WKERS. Hence, elliptical blade, swept blade and NREL Phase IV blade are selected to go through Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis in SolidWorks design software undergoing rotational flow simulation. During this benchmarking process, 10.0 m/s wind speed is set for the rotational simulation.