DEVELOPMENT OF MINI VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE FOR SAFETY ON BEACH SIDE SECURITY SYSTEM

Abstract

The use of renewable energy is expanding in our country. This is due to the depletion of the ozone layer due to combustion which produces electrical energy. Therefore, with suggestions or ideas that can help reduce the rate of environmental pollution, this is also an initiative to help Malaysia towards a zero-carbon country. In addition, this project is carried out not only to generate electricity that does not pollute the environment, but it also produces a device that can help in maintaining the safety of people who visit the beach. The design of vertical axis wind turbine is not adopted for commercial power. The main objectives of this project are to build a mini vertical axis wind turbine which can generate maximum load power of 15W and to test the 12V DC generator can be fully charge 4.8V rechargeable battery. This project can detect wind speeds at dangerous levels of 40 kilometers per hour. This project uses an alarm system such as buzzer and red LED to warn visitors who are in the area around the beach. To detect wind speed, this project produces a vertical axis wind turbine design that requires only a small amount of wind speed. Arduino uno as the main controller in this project and it requires coding expertise to control the action of the microcontroller. This project also makes an analysis of the design of wind turbines and performance comparison between actual situation and simulation. The simulation are using the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software known as Flow-3D. The characteristics obtained from this experiment provide useful information for the design and performance of wind turbine.