Design and Development of A Standalone Hybrid Solar Bladeless Wind Power System

Abstract

The utilization of nonconventional energy sources has been increasing from the last few years due to the advantages of low power interruptions, unlimited power supply and non-pollutant power generation. These advantages of renewable energy resources encourage implementation of an alternative for clean power generation for future generations. There have been a variety of non conventional energy sources like solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy, biomass energy, geothermal energy and hydro power. Wind power generation is one of the clean energy whose utilization will be an effective solution for global warming and power interruptions. newlineThis research work presents the design of a new oscillatory wind turbine that works on the principle of vortex vibrations. The oscillatory displacements of the wind turbine will be collected with the passage of the wind through the mast by a displacement transducer. This work also involves the design of a high gain boost converter for converting the voltage of the transducer to the required level with the lesser gain. It involves the design of Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) system for tracking the maximum power at various climatic conditions and it has been realized with various types of controllers like proportional derivative integral (PID) controller, fuzzy proportional derivative integral (PID) controller, artificial neural network and model predictive controller to control the static and dynamic performance of the system. The resultant duty cycle of the MPPT with fuzzy PID controller is used for switching operations of high gain step-up converter to boost up the voltage. A three-level inverter has been used for DC-AC power conversion and the obtained electrical energy can be used for residential and commercial applications.