The objective of the project is to design a new blade mechanism to reduce the blade damage caused due to high wind
speeds during operation of the wind turbine. There has been a very sturdy increase in harnessing wind energy all over the
world. In today’s world there are many types of turbines which are used for harnessing the wind energy. One such type is the
savonius wind turbine which we have concentrated on in this project. This is a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). There are
two type of mechanisms used in a VAWT to convert the wind energy to mechanical energy.They are lift type and the drag type.
Savonius turbine is a drag type wind turbine which uses the drag force created by the wind on the turbine blades to rotate the
blades over the axis of the turbine.
