DESIGN MANUFACTURING AND TESTING HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE THREE BLADES A DIAMETER OF 1,4 METERS WITH CUTTING MODIFICATION AT 0,4 R

• Main Author: SIMBOLON (NIM : 13106155); Pembimbing : Ir. Kemas Rifian M.Sc, MARTIN
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/16380
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

In this time, people are still dependent on fossil energy. This kind of energy is used in people’s daily life; one of such is as the source of electrical energy. The unrenewable energy that will face its reduction in a period of time – along with the increasing of population will cause scarcity in the future. Aside from that, the excessive use of fossil energy will also create bad impacts towards environment sustainability. <br /> <br /> <br /> Due to this reason, there is a need to find a solution on the ongoing problem especially in Indonesia as a developing country. However, utilizing renewable energy emerges as one of the answers to tackle this problem; and wind energy is one of those various renewable energies that will be very potential if it is well developed. But another problem regarding to this breakthrough is that the utilization of the potential of this wind energy is still rarely use, whereas this wind energy is a green energy. Thus, further development on wind power is needed, not to mention the wind turbine as the source of its power. <br /> <br /> <br /> This research deals with the idea of designing, manufacturing, and testing of the wind turbine. The type of wind turbine chosen is the horizontal axis turbine with three blade face and a diameter 1.4 meters with the cutting modifications at 0.4 R. These turbine is designed and manufactured to be suitable to use in Indonesia, thus the result of this research will enable next research to optimize the utilization of this turbine. <br /> <br /> <br /> The data that are obtained from the test will show the characteristic of the power of the wind turbine in various wind speeds.