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Collegiate Wind Competition 2018
Northern Arizona University (NAU), along with twelve other schools, has been chosen to compete in the Collegiate Wind Competition 2018 (CWC18) held by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The competition has three parts: A small scale turbine to be tested in a wind tunnel, a business marketing plan and a technical design for a large-scale wind turbine, and a siting challenge. The Market Team is a group of six mechanical engineers working on the technical design of the large-scale wind turbine. This report focuses on the objectives, research and design of the Market Team’s turbine.
The team must fully design a hypothetical large-scale wind turbine and all of its subcomponents. We will be working in tangent with a team of students from the W.A. Franke College of Business, to create a business plan for the turbine. This design and business plan will compete at the CWC18 in May.