Experimental study on horizontal axis wind turbine with splitted winglets
Human needs increasing over years, energy is needed to fulfill the daily life. In the other hands, source of energy such as coal is decrease and become less and less. There is a renewable energy that can made from wind source. Wind energy can be obtained by using some tools such as wind turbine. Wind turbine is a device that used to convert wind energy into electricity. Wind turbine has developed to many variation. One of variation that added to the wind turbine especially on their blades is splitted winglet. This additional variation is an adaptation from recent aircraft. The advantages of using this typical of winglets on aircraft is increasing the lift coefficient and decreasing drag coefficient. The function of splitted winglet on wind turbine blades is to minimize the backflow on the tip of blades. This research expectation is turbine will get better performance. Comparing the turbine with the blade without winglets, with winglets and with splitted winglets. Turbine with the blades without winglets gives best performance among all the turbine variations. The air flow hit the turbine at 6 m/s, the performance of turbine without winglets give Cp about 5,2E 1. With the same velocity of airflow, the turbine with winglets and splitted winglets give Cp about 4,7E 1 and 2,1E 1.