AP0955 Shortcut Sizing Approach of Outstanding Wind Turbine Size to Power a Certain Load for Locations Within Annual Wind Speed Range of (3-12m/S)

Abstract

Power produced by wind rapidly turned to be one of the most economic energy varieties. There are few studies on the of sizing of wind power systems and they are restricted on particular wind speed data and load profile for given sites. Furthermore, case studies utilized turbines and batteries of various brands and powers. As a result of such considerable discrepancies, findings may not be easily generalized for other sites. Findings generalization to the wider world rather than given sites is critical for manufacturers, clients, and research centers. In the current research, there sites are not pre-selected, but, a series of annual wind readings (3-12 m/s) have been adopted as inputs representing numerous spots all over the world. This paper seeks to size an outstanding wind turbine that may feed a given load profile through relying solely upon annual wind speed data rather than monthly data. Load profiles were designated for multiple minor applications (8kW) with an operation load of 10 hours. Six wind turbines (with various powers) have been utilized with their respective lowest hub heights. Techno-economic parameters have been assessed through HOMER simulation tool. The outcomes of the deviced approach indicated that the outstanding wind turbine feeding an 8 kW load for any spot within annual range of 3-12m/s was PGE 20-25 (25kW). Variation in hub heights of the outstanding wind turbine slightly affects techno-economic parameters at low wind readings (3-4) m/s and the effect turns to be non-significant at higher wind readings (5-12) m/s. The low impact of hub heights proves that the power duty of the outstanding turbine is acceptable at all annual wind speeds. Validating tests are done for (3) respective sites relying upon monthly data. The outcomes indicate that superior wind turbine sizes that feed (8 kW) load at the tested sites are still PGE 20-25 (25kW). Therefore, it can be concluded that annual wind speed is a sufficient data to predict outstanding wind turbine size of optimum power duty accurately to run 8kW load around the globe. Finally, this sizing approach can be adopted in future works to generalize the outstanding turbine size for other load profiles at so many locations around the globe. It is worthy to remind that the values of the techno-economic parameters using annual wind speed data are very preliminary feasibility results or even far from that. But it is still appropriate to predict the outstanding size of wind turbine to run a specific load around the globe when performing subjective comparison among different turbines at each techno-economic parameter versus the annual wind speed.