Performance analysis of a hybrid vertical axis wind turbine through CFD for distributed generation in rural areas of Peru

Abstract

Currently, in the developing countries of Latin America there is a great deficiency in the transmission of energy. In Peru, being a developing country, there are many rural areas and indigenous and peasant communities that do not yet have access to electricity due to the difficult access or cost of installing transmission lines in their location. Therefore, the present work will briefly evaluate the current situation of the country and, from that, will formulate a solution based on the development of distributed generation systems using small wind turbines. For this purpose, this paper will develop the preliminary performance analysis of a hybrid vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) by using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD), for this, the data of the wind resource of Cajamarca, a province in Peru, will be used for this analysis because in this province there is a great wind resource. Even a short aerodynamic and efficiency study was carried out in order to characterize its behaviour with different air flows as they are found in many rural sectors of Peru.