Investigating CVT as a Transmission System Prospect for Wind Turbine

Wind energy is a renewable source of energy besides being a clean source of energy. At a time when conservation of resources is the need of the hour, the better utilization of the present reusable sources should be the utmost priority. One of them being the wind turbines. A wind turbine is a device, which converts the energy of wind into mechanical energy, and this mechanical energy with the help of a generator is converted into electrical energy. The conservation of energy is at the top for a sustainable and quality environment and wind energy is one of the few yet best renewable resources. The vast potential of wind energy has never been in doubt however, access to abundance has always been a challenge. This paper covers the possibility of enhancing the existing methods of power transmissions and thereby the better efficient performance of the wind turbine The present electrical methods to cover for the variation in speed of the wind and variable input to the generator is doing a good job but this paper encroaches the mechanical aspect of the system something which has not been looked at while this time. The arrival of Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) in the automobile industry was a breakthrough in automatic power transmission. We credit our inspiration and approach the CVT only, the ability to provide optimal gear ratio in varying conditions is what we engulfed upon. We are proposing the design of a system based on CVT to provide the solution to the varying input problem to the generator.