Optimum wind turbine design and analysis to harvest wind energy from fast-moving vehicles on highways

Abstract

Today, Renewable energy technology has become one of the most concerning technologies in the modern world. Among them, the wind is considered one of the fastest-growing green energy resources and is only hindered due to the fluctuations of wind regimes. When the vehicles are moving at high speed on highways, it induces a large wind force near the roads, and this unused and wasted energy can be directed to harvest electrical power using wind turbines. The wind, generated as a result of the rapid movement of vehicles, can be considered to have a continuing speed. This helps in addressing the issues brought up by fluctuations in the wind, which is the main setback on the use of wind power generation. This paper presents a design of an optimized wind turbine standalone system that can extract wind power from vehicles moving on highways, and the proposed system was implemented and simulated in MATLAB Simulink. Results are analyzed to verify the proposed concept