Title
A cup anemometer using 3D additive manufacturing
Date Issued
01 September 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Renewable energy and wind power have proven to be suitable, clean and abundant to produce electricity. To implement a wind system or plant it is necessary to know the wind potential of the place, this is obtained from the historical data of wind speed. These measurements take a long time and generate significant costs for the project.In this paper, a low-cost cup anemometer was designed and fabricated using 3D additive manufacturing. The design of the anemometer was modeled using ANSYS. The fabrication of the anemometer used additive manufacturing of a hexagonal mechanical structure with ABS material. The structure was coupled to an encoder, which through a phototransistor measures anemometer rotation using PWM pulses. Electronic and data processing uses an Arduino Uno, which receives the data of pulses from the phototransistor and converts them in wind speed data.Finally, several tests to the built anemometer were performed to assess the precision and accuracy of the device compared with a commercial anemometer, showing a R2=0.968 compared to the actual data, furthermore, the cost of the designed anemometer is around 100.00 USD.The manufactured anemometer has good accuracy, low-cost and it is possible to manufacture on a large scale. It is intended to use this type of anemometer for assessment studies, this will reduce costs in the implementation of future wind projects in the country.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería mecánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85095460152
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing, INTERCON 2020
ISBN of the container
9781728193779
Conference
27th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing, INTERCON 2020 Virtual, Lima 3 September 2020 through 5 September 2020
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