Design and assessment of the exhaust channel to install a small wind turbine and evaluation of Air30 wind turbine

This thesis focuses on the setup of a small wind turbine test facility in the Chair of Turbomachinery at the University of Duisburg-Essen. the geometry of an exhaust channel and a room have been designed through the SolidWorks and Creo Parametric Software, then meshing and assessing with Ansys ICEM and CFX. A preliminary Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study was conducted to determine the optimal installation position of a small wind turbine from renowned manufacturer, Primus Wind Power (Ryse Energy). The study evaluated three different mass flow rates and assessed the effect of installing an internal wall and also a honeycomb to improve velocity values and flow homogeneity. The thesis also includes a detailed analysis of the Air 30 wind turbine, with a focus on determining power output at various wind speeds. The optimal location for the wind turbine was found to be less than 80 cm from the internal wall. Additionally, the cut-in wind speed is approximately 5m/s.