TOWER DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION

FOR A WHALE INSPIRED SMALL

HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND
TURBINE
Guasa, John
Edward A.
BSME-5

PROBLEM

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Dealing with the Problem

Can

operate day and night

Environmental friendly

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE
To design and construct a tower for a
whale inspired horizontal axis wind
turbine.
To Determine the performance of the
design tower

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Types of Tower

Design Requirements

Location
Material type
Parameters

HEIGHT

DEAD LOAD

Parameters

WIND LOAD

AREA Cross-section
Diameter
Thickness

Methodology
Location

Report

Design And
Simulation

Data Gathering
and
Analysis

Construction

Testing

Reference:
Design

of wind turbine tower and foundation systems: optimization approach,

John Corbett Nicholson,2011
Tower Design Load Verification on a 1-kW Wind Turbine, A. Huskey and D.
Prascher , January 10-13, 2005 .
Structural Analyses of Wind Turbine Tower for 3 kW Horizontal Axis Wind
Turbine, Tae gyun (Tom) Gwon, August 9, 2011.