Wind Wall / Archimedes Screw Turbine

Abstract CAD Design Fabrication

• Our fabrication consisted of a lot of hands-on work. Using
§ Our main goal for our project is to be able to provide a • Our main design is our Wind Wall shown below; the goal carpentry and power tools, we were able to fabricate
reliable source of renewable energy that can be used at
of this design was to balance cost with the max amount majority of the project. We were able to develop more
low altitude and on the outside of urban buildings to
provide low-cost energy. The concept of our Wind Wall of efficiency possible. The final design consists of 6 RPMs for the rotors using machined parts to face some
design is for it to be mounted onto a wall of a home shafts(split into separate parts), 6 full blades, 6 couplers, material off the shafts, which reduced weight. Thus,
or building. We will use laminar wind energy to convert the 6 DC motors, and 12 thrust bearings. The remaining causing the rods to rotate at lower torque values, causing
kinetic energy into electricity using a DC motor, then store frame was made from 2x4 and particle board to create a more power to be developed out of our project. The
it in a battery backup. As maintenance is usually always stable structure to test our wind blade design. cables will then leave the back of our model and store all
needed for a design, we allowed our Wind Wall to be energy in an exterior battery backup.
disassembled to exchange any damages that may occur.

§ Our second design was purely conceptual but created

with the same purpose. This design utilizes both wind and
water energy using a vertical wind blade and a helical
blade to direct water passing through, which will
also convert kinetic energy into electricity. Using our initial
concept of the Wind Wall, we will also include using
precipitation to be used as producing energy and can also
be used as water storage. Therefore, any natural resource • Our second model for our project was a conceptual
that is provided, can be harvested. design based off our first Wind wall design. In this design
we decided to incorporate both wind and water to
generate energy in what we call a Wind Tower. This
design in a vertical tower that is divided into two separate
Results parts. The top part of our column has a vertical blade
attached to a DC motor and gear box. Right below this Design Team and Sponsors
As a group, one of the main priorities with our Wind Wall design is to be efficient and reliable, section we have two entry ways for water to enter the
with the least maintenance possible. For that, we ran several simulations on different
main column, it then passes through a screw like turbine Faculty Advisor: Sponsor: The University of
components of the design, to produce the best product with accessible materials:
in the center that rotates as water passes through. This Dr. Hassan North Texas
1st Study Result
turbine is also connected to a DC motor and all the Qandil
For our first simulation, we calculated the stress in one of the four brackets holding the Wind
Wall. We could see the behavior and performance of our bracket when applying pressure to
the front area. Besides, our wind wall is not designed to be as heavy as someone would cabling is in a separate compartment in the back of the
think, the performance of one of the brackets in our stress analysis. We found a minimum
and maximum value of the stress each bracket could handle. This simulation had no primary wind tower, keeping all circuits out of any exposure to
concern since the pressure exerted on the object does not exceed the weight of our overall
design, which is calculated to be around 60 lbs. moisture. This Wind/Water design can be used as a
Figure 1 Depicts the Von Mises static loading
of the wind wall on its support. gutter system for a building as well as support.
From left to right: Logan Goodsan, Alexis Manzanares,
2nd Study Result
For the second simulation we stablished different parameters and got results in case the load Aldo Salazar, Catarino Hernandez, and Josh Fangang
applied in the first simulation would get us in a way our project would not be feasible to run.
However, the displacement obtained from the results provided a max value whereas a team,
we do not have to worry about an abnormality in fatigue on the back of the bracket while
holding the wind wall.

Depicts the displacement of the

Figure 2 support when its statically
loaded
3rd Study Result
As a third simulation, we ran a flow simulation in a design conformed with one blade, one
shaft, one bearing and the frame as an optimal concept for calculations. Our hand
calculations based on the numbers obtained in our simulation gives values for the speed and
RPMs of the blades when performing air flow, as well as the TSR (Tip Speed Ratio), to get the
average value and be precise by the time of building the wind wall. With these values, we
have concluded that our blade will handle the regular speed, even in bad conditions, and
the RPM’s and voltage for energy store in the DC motor.
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Figure 3 Depicts pressure & velocity flow
trajectories obtained from flow
simulation.