Designing and testing a prototype stable-wing-support system to deploy, retrieve, and operate a horizontal river hydrokinetic turbine within the water column to achieve cost-effective power generation in cold climates

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dc.contributor.authorAqdiam, Ibrahim
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeWu, Nan (Mechanical Engineering)
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeMantilla, Ricardo (Civil Engineering)
dc.contributor.supervisorBibeau, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-08T19:55:35Z
dc.date.available2024-10-08T19:55:35Z
dc.date.issued2024-10-05
dc.date.submitted2024-10-05T00:44:59Zen_US
dc.date.submitted2024-10-08T19:42:53Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineMechanical Engineering
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science (M.Sc.)
dc.description.abstractRiver hydrokinetic turbines harness renewable energy in river currents to contribute to microgrids. Despite many hydrokinetic turbine designs, systems still require reducing costs and operate effectively in cold climates. A stable-wing-support system is developed and tested to deploy, retrieve, and operate within the water column of a horizontal axis river turbine. The prototype design addresses identified stability problems using a fixed-wing design previously tested in a laboratory water tunnel and an energetic river. The stable-wing-support system prototype uses a NACA 0012 airfoil with 6°, 10°, and 15° dihedral angles designed using open-source Xflr5 software to optimize the lift, drag, and moment coefficients for angles of attack from -5° to +15°. The prototype also includes a winged tail to improve the turbine assembly's stability further. The stable-wing-support prototype designed using SolidWorks is 3-D printed. Tests are conducted to quantify the stability of the stable-wing-support prototype using a water tunnel at flow velocities varying from 0.5 to 1 m/s, resulting in Reynold’s numbers from 3.37x105 to 6.74x105. Stability data is recorded and analyzed using open-source Tracker software and then exported to MATLAB software for analysis. Results indicate that the stability of the stable-wing-support system with dihedral angles 6°, 10°, and 15° and a winged tail significantly improves the stability by 80%, 50%, and 40%, respectively, compared to a previous design for flow velocities up to 1 m/s, addressing the objectives of this research and contribute a design to maximizing power production in cold climates.
dc.description.noteFebruary 2025
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/38653
dc.language.isoeng
dc.subjectA new system for river hydrokinetic turbines development.
dc.subjectApplying the airplanes principals to river hydrokinetic turbine to enhance the stability and power generation in the cold climate regions.
dc.titleDesigning and testing a prototype stable-wing-support system to deploy, retrieve, and operate a horizontal river hydrokinetic turbine within the water column to achieve cost-effective power generation in cold climates
local.subject.manitobayes
oaire.awardTitleMitacs accelerate program
project.funder.nameMitacs and Dragon
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