An Experimental Study of the Savonius Water Current Turbine by means of Myring Equation for n = 1

This work has been done experimentally to the Savonius water current turbine by means of Myring equation for n =1. The myring for n=2 is called the conventional turbine with half circle or bucket. Experiment is tested in flume tank by 1.1 m of wide and 0.8 m of height. The free stream velocity is 0.22 m/s measured at 1.5 m from nozzle. The model is the Myring equation with n=1 by 0.4 m of height and 0.4 m of turbine diameter. The experimental study has investigated the torque coefficient and the power coefficient. The power coefficient has been called the performance coefficient. The experimental results shows that the Myring formula n = 1 have the performance coefficient higher than the conventional blade. The myring blade for n = 1 increases in about 42.88 % compared to the conventional blade.