Diseño y construcción de un tunel de viento didáctico para evaluar el funcionamiento de un rotor éolico instructivo para el laboratorio de Térmicas

Abstract

It is designed and built a wind tunnel to assess the performance of a wind rotor or instructional laboratory for thermal turbine, in order to obtain a practical module for testing the power generation of the wind rotor, for which first an analysis of the technical characteristics of the wind turbine and then sizing the circuit pipelines, choose the building material and select the fan was performed. This equipment is used to provide control over causal airflow through a dimmer, allowing vary the air velocity inside the test chamber causing different operating points that help obtain the characteristic curve of the wind rotor. The construction of pipelines made of transparent acrylic material facilitates observing the interaction between the wind rotor and the air flow. With this performance the students will study the behavior of the wind turbine against different wind speeds and get the values of voltage, current and power generated. This project contributes to academic and technological development of the Faculty of Mechanics at ESPOCH; students can acquire the knowledge and skills needed to enable to solve the problems and needs in the generation of clean energy in the country. It is recommended to implement automation equipment as reading data in this project is manually, this allows them to be more reliable and accurate.