Design, Simulation, and Fabrication of Micro Wind Tree Turbine

Micro wind turbines contribute a large role in providing energy in society. There are many different designs and types of turbines used to provide the need. Micro wind turbine is one of them that can be able to produce energy for a period. There are a lot of sources of energy and one of them is wind energy that uses wind leaf blades to convert natural wind of the atmosphere into electricity. The goal of our study is to design, simulation, and fabrication of a micro wind tree turbine. The design of the wind tree is based on a typical tree found in the urban place and uses leaf-like shape blade turbines that rotate continuously based on the wind speed. The minimum wind speed of the design is from 1.5 meters per second to 3.5 meters per second, enough for the blade to rotate and generate electricity. The design consists of 5 wind blades and has 0.6 meters with each other for better airflow. It also helps the problem of scarcity of electricity which many people can benefit from. It can help the environment by producing energy using a clean energy source. It will help other researchers in their future studies. The best operational speed of our wind turbine is 2.5 meter per second and has the highest coefficient of power among the 5 wind speeds with a 38.22% captured energy and the least efficient wind speed is 1.5 meter per second with a coefficient of power of 12.99%.