This paper presents field performance measurement of a small scale 3-D wind turbine rotor blade design and a standard straight rotor blade design. The measurements were conducted at a point located 10 m from the shoreline in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The rotors were mounted on a tower as high as 7 m. The rotors and an anemometer were installed at the same height and the distance between the anemometer and the tower is 4.5 m. Bin method with bin speed of 0.5 m/s is applied to analyze the recorded data.4th order polynomial trend line is used to characterize the calculated mean powers. The results show that 3-D wind turbine blade design yields higher power output and better performance than the standard blade design.
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