Study on the Load Cell Utilization for Dynamic Torque Measurement in 3-Blade Savonius Wind Turbine Design

Abstract

This paper presents the design and analysis of a Savonius wind turbine. Wind turbines harness wind energy to generate electricity, presenting a renewable and clean alternative to traditional power sources. This savonius wind turbine is a type of wind turbine that can rotate even at relatively low wind speeds, so it is necessary to develop a measuring instrument that has high accuracy and is affordable to evaluate the performance of this turbine. In this research, a load cell with an affordable price with a percentage error of approximately 15%, is used as a dynamic torque measurement tool on wind turbines, this torque parameter can be used as an important performance determinant of the wind turbine in generating power. This research was conducted in the Agricultural Machinery Workshop and Integrated Laboratoryy, University of Sumatera Utara, Medan from March to August 2022. The research is performed in several phases, which are 3D design, simulation, schematic design, prototype making, collecting actual data, analyzing actual data, and simulation data. The simulation results are compared with the actual data from the loadcell that has been tested, from the results of the comparison the accuracy value and deviation value of the instrument will be obtained.