Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

ITESM

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Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

STUDENTS:

Jaime Treviño - Mechanical Engineering - Junior
Arturo Augusto Fernández - Mechatronics - Sophmore
Jesús Alejandro Hernández - Mechanical Engineering - Sophmore
José María Silva - Mechanical Engineering - Freshman
Manuel Valencia García - Mechatronics - Junior
Silvia Elena Salcido - Mechanical Engineering - Junior
Iván Maciel González - Mechatronics - Sophmore
Carolina García - Management - Sophmore
Mario Solís - High School - Senior

Second General Partners Meeting Presentation, ITESM

GENERAL OBJECTIVE: The final objective is to complete the construction of an integral Wind Power Station. This includes, but is not limited to: Blades, rotor assembly, transmission, generator, energy storage system, support platform, electronic control module, power management system, supporting tower, sensors, and actuators. The core of the station is a three-bladed Horizontal-Axis-Wind-Turbine with active pitch, coning, and orientation (yaw) control. Blades are of the ideally-twisted type with optimized tip geometry. The station will be located On-Campus for logistics reasons. Exact siting will be determined based on aerodynamic studies of a virtual Campus model. Once the station is up and running it will be used as a research platform, the turbine will be scaled up, and the system will be connected to our Campus' utility grid. Students will be allowed to choose the part of the project they want to get involved with, they will receive the required preliminary training, and they will be assigned specific chores accordingly. All chores will be assigned a number of required-hours in advance, and the students will be paid according to a previously disclosed rate. Students will be allowed to conduct their work on-campus or at another institution as part of a faculty/students exchange program.

PROPOSAL OF WORK PLAN: Most students are focusing now on the conditioning of the tower atop which we will mount a Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbine that we will complete as part of the Integral Wind Power System development program. Activities have included: welding, cutting, grinding, paint-stripping, application of paint base, and painting. One of the students has done the conceptual design of the system we´ll use to raise/lower the upper part of the tower. Another student has created a virtual 3D map of our Campus to help us in finding the best location for the Wind Turbine. One of the female students has been helping us with administrative chores related to the project.

All these students started to work on the project at the end of our spring semester (May 10) and they intend to continue to work at the same pace until the beginning of our fall semester (August 7). On average, they have been devoting some two hours a day to the project.

Work has been taking place on Campus grounds (tower field work), our machine shop, the library, or one of our computer labs.