Design, modeling and simulation of windmill for rural areas

Abstract

In this project a wind pump system was designed, modeled and simulated to serve the goal of supporting water harvesting in many of rural areas rather than the efficiency of the system, which in this case the location were selected to be TOKER city where the condition are 3.5m/s wind velocity at 10m height and total head of 15m . In our design, horizontal axis windmill with 12 blades is used. Each blade has a radius of 1.352 m giving a total surface area of 0.29 m2 and this gives a solidity of 0.6. The torque output of the windmill is 16.21 Nm and this is sufficient to sustain the desired Flow rate of (0.1736 X 10-3) m3 per second with a maximum head of 15m. The modeling, analysis and simulation were conducted using Solid Works version 14 on static loads bases