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AWEA U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report Year Ending 2016
Exploring Wind - 10/19/17 - The NEED Project
Exploring Wind - 10/19/17 - The NEED Project
Vertical-Axis Turbines
Disadvantages
Rotors generally near ground where wind is
poorer
Advantages
Centrifugal force stresses blades
Omni-directional
Poor self-starting capabilities
accepts wind from any direction
Requires support at top of turbine rotor
Components can be mounted at
ground level Requires entire rotor to be removed to
ease of service
replace bearings
Workers Blade
112 long
Nacelle
56 tons
Tower
3 sections
Property Values
Noise
Visual Impact
Land Use
Wildlife Impact
Bernoullis Principle
EnergyKinetic + EnergyPressure = EnergyPressure + Energy Kinetic
Example:
IfEnergy Kinetic1 = (5), and Energy Pressure1 = (11)
and Energy Pressure2 drops to (1)
then Kinetic Energy2 Increases to (15)
Catching the Wind!
Turbines catch the wind's energy with their propeller-like blades
Usually, two or three blades are mounted on a shaft to form a rotor
The wind turbine blade acts an airplane wing
When the wind blows a pocket of low-pressure air forms on the downwind
side of the blade
Air pressure = force exerted on an object by the weight of particles in air
measured in:
Inches of Mercury (Hg),A
Amospheres (Atm)
Millibars (mb)
1013.25 mb = 29.92 Hg = 1.0 atm.[2] At standard or normal atmospheric pressure, and at
15 C, air usually weighs about 1.225 kilograms per cubic meter
Catching the Wind! Cont
When air pressure is low in one locality, such as the downwind side of a
wind turbine blade, air from another area will rush in to equal out the air
pressure
The low-pressure air pocket created by the wind turbine blade then pulls
the blade toward it, causing the rotor to turn
This process is referred to as lift. The force of the lift is actually much
stronger than the wind's force against the front side of the blade, which is
called drag
The combination of lift and drag causes the rotor to spin like a propeller
causes the spinning of the turbines shaft.
When shaft spins KE of movement is converted by generator into
usable electricity
ORIENTATION OF THE ROTOR AXIS
AERODYNAMICS
Lift and drag forces are measured experimentally in a wind tunnel for airfoils as
a function of the attack angle, the angle of the relative wind to the chord of
the airfoil (Figure 5.11).
Lift is perpendicular and drag is parallel to the relative wind. The horizontal
component of the lift on the blades, which depends on the angle of attack,
makes the rotor turn about the axis (Figure 5.12).
Control Systems
Pitch Control
Normal Operation [1]
A power curve,
power versus
wind speed,
describes the
normal operation
of a wind turbine
Normal Operation [2]
Wind turbines are shut down for faults such as loss of load,
vibration, loss of phase, current or voltage anomalies, etc.
Each of these safety features could save the unit, but the most
important feature is a method of controlling the rotor when there
is a loss of load (fault on the utility grid) during high winds
(overspeed control).
If the unit is not shut down within a few seconds, it will reach such
high power levels that it cannot be shut down and will self-
destruct.
The large torque excursions and also the emergency application of
mechanical brakes may damage the gearbox. Faults result in power
spikes, large current, and voltage drops.
Energy Productions
The effect of the wind regime and the rated power for the rated wind speed
can be estimated by changing the capacity factor.
The capacity factor is the average power divided by the rated power
(generator size). The capacity factor is estimated from energy production
over a selected time period, and in general, capacity factors are quoted on an
annual basis, although some are calculated for a quarter of a year.
Capacity factors can also be calculated for wind farms, and they should be
close to the same values as capacity factors calculated for individual wind
turbines. However, if the wind farm is composed of different wind turbines, it
should be noted.
Example : Case Study
For example, the Green Mountain Wind Farm at the Brazos near
Fluvana, Texas, has 160 1 MW wind turbines; however,100 have
rotor diameters of 61.4 m and 60 have rotor diameters of 56 m.
Therefore, the capacity factor will be larger for the units
with the larger rotor.
Notice that capacity factor is like an average efficiency.
In general, the generator size method gives reasonable
estimates if the rated power of the wind turbine is around 10
13 m/s.
If the rated power is above that range, or for wind regimes
below class 3, then the capacity factor should be reduced
accordingly.
ROTOR AREA AND WIND MAP
The amount of energy produced by a wind turbine primarily depends on the rotor area,
also referred to as cross-sectional area, swept area, or intercept area. The swept area for
different types of wind turbines can be calculated from the dimensions of the rotor.
Example
MANUFACTURERS CURVE
Manufacturers assume a Rayleigh
distribution for the wind speed at
1 m/s intervals and then calculate
the annual energy production at
standard density using the power
curve for their wind tur bine at a
selected hub height.
At 10 m height, the average wind
speed was around 6 m/s for the
High Plains of Texas (1,100 m
elevation), and at 50 m height, the
wind speed was 8.2 m/s.
So, from the graph, a wind speed
of 8.2 m/s means the turbine
should produce around 2,800,000
kWh/year.
Perhitungan
Energy
Tahunan [1]
CALCULATED ANNUAL ENERGY [2]
Manufacturers will supply power curves for their wind turbines, and most of
the power curves are available online.
For each interval (a bin width of 1 m/s is adequate), the number of hours
at that wind speed is multiplied by the corresponding power to find the
energy.
These values are added together to find the energy production for the total
number of hours (Table 5.1). This is the method that wind farm developers
use to estimate the energy production.
Wind speed histograms should reflect annual values, not the value for part
of a year or even 1 year, which could be above or below the annual values.
Wind speed histograms and power curves have to be corrected to the same
height and adjusted for air density due to location of the data compiled for
the power curve.
So when the density correction is made from 1.2 to 1.1 kg/m for the Texas
Panhandle and an availability of 98% is assumed, that reduces 3,061,000
kWh/year to 2,750,000 kWh/year.
CALCULATED ANNUAL ENERGY [3]
Availability is the time that the wind turbine is in operational mode, and it
does not depend on whether the wind is blowing.
Availability is related to reliability of the wind turbine, which is affected by
both the quality of the turbine and operation and maintenance.
Experimental values of availability of wind turbines in the field were poor for
first production models; however, availabilities of 98% are now reported for
later units, which have a good program of ongoing maintenance.
INNOVATIVE WIND SYSTEMS
Batteries are used with stand-alone systems and hybrid systems, and even provide
load leveling for short-term fluctuations. XCEL Energy will begin a demonstration
project consisting of 1 MW of battery storage to store energy from wind farms [28].
There will be 20 battery modules (50 kW each) that will store around 72 MWh. Other
storage ideas have been to change the electrical energy to chemical energy, such as
the production of hydrogen or fertilizer. Village power systems that include wind
turbines and the production of hydrogen are now on the market. Another idea would
be to store the energy in flywheels, which would be a good load match between the
wind turbine and the load.
Compressed air, pumped water storage, and superconducting magnets have all been
considered, and some prototype systems with wind turbine input have even been
constructed. In general, the efficiency of storage systems is around 60 to 70%.
Example Project
MIT
Setup Types
stand-alone
not connected to a power grid
power created is directly channeled into powered site
utility power grid
Stores energy
connection must be available
Combined w/ a photovoltaic (solar cell) system
has solar cells mounted on it.
Solar cells - thin wafers of silicon which, when exposed to
sunlight, produceelectric current
Efficiency
large number of wind turbines are usually built close together to
form what is referred to as a wind plant
The worlds largest wind plant located off the coast of Oregon
has 450 wind turbines
generates 300 MWh of energy
meets the needs of 70,000 homes
This practice utilizes an area suited for wind energy by deploying
multiple units
Limitations
limit to the amount of energy that can be harnessed by an individual wind turbine
The more kinetic energy that a wind turbine pulls out of the wind, the more the
wind will be slowed down as it leaves
If a designer tried to extract all the energy from the wind
air would move away with the speed zero
air prevented from entering the rotor of the turbine
If the designer did the exact opposite and allowed the wind to pass through the
wind turbine without being hindered at all, again,
energy will not be cultivated,
since the rotor blades would not be spun, the
shaft wouldnt spin
kinetic energy would not be converted into electricity
Betz Law