Vertical Axis Wind Mill: A Review

Energy crises is the major problem all over the world. Most of energy requirement is fulfilled by thermal power plants based on coal and diesel. To avoid these polluting and limited sources should be adopted alternative power sources like wind energy. Wind power is an important source of environmental-friendly energy and has become more and more important in the recent years. The amount of installed wind power is increasing every year and many nations have made plans to make large investments in wind power in the near future. The wind mills which are used for energy generations have heavy framework and is limited because of their heavy designs. The domestic wind mills can be used for domestic purpose by making a suitable prototype for considerable load and will serve benefit to the resources that are limited to earth surface .This will also minimize the dependency on power stations and thus will serve a great advantage to our nation. There is an important requirement for a domestic wind turbine, which can be used for domestic application because of the limited availability of the resources. This project is limited to designing and development of wind mill by using CAD and CFD software for domestic application.