Abstract
Abstract— Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT) small scaled is widely employed for generating electricity for domestic uses due to higher efficiencies among other turbines. Three-Blade HAWTs power performance can be further improved by optimizing lift (CL), drag (CD) coefficients and thus power (CP) coefficient. In this study, Taguchi design of experiments (DOE) of L9 orthogonal array (OA) with three parameters and one interaction, namely airfoil, angle of attack, interaction (between the airfoil and the attack angle), and Reynolds number with three value levels are used to determine the single quality (CL, CD, CP) optimization. For multi-qualities optimization, the Grey-based Taguchi is employed which combines the Taguchi DOE orthogonal array with grey relational analysis to determine the grey relational grade, which can convert the multi-response grey relational grade into single grey relational grade, thus the optimal design parameters can be achieved. The Q-Blade software is used to determine lift and drag coefficients and empirical equation used for power coefficient. The obtained results show that the most influence design parameter on airfoil coefficients is Reynolds number with 72.6% contribution followed by attack angle with 16.8%, interaction with 9.1% and airfoil with 1.5%. The F-value indicates that Reynolds number and angle of attack give at least 97.5% and 90% confidence respectively, for this specific set of experiments.