Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Conversion
Derive Maximum Power Available in Wind
Define Power Coefficient
Define Wind Power Density
WIND ENERGY
Caused by solar energy irradiating with earth.
energy.
1
2
Kinetic energy mV
2
m = x Volume
m = x A V 2
1
3
KE = A V Watts
2
3 (from 1 & 2)
2
2
A=
D
m 4
4
1 2 3
Pa = D V Watts ( from 3 & 4)
2 4
1
2 3
Pa = D V Watts
8
POWER COEFICIENT
POWER COEFICIENT
POWER COEFICIENT
OBJECTIVES
Describe Site Selection Criteria for Wind Mills
List Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind
Energy
Classify Wind Energy Conversion Systems
Explain Design of Horizontal Axis Machine
Classify Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines
(HAWT)
Explain different types of HAWT
environment.
Avoid fuel provision and transport.
On small scale upto a few kilowatt system is less
costly.
On a large scale costs can be competitive with
conventional electricity and lower costs could be
achieved by mass production.
its
irregularities.
Noisy in operation.
Relatively high overall weight.
Large area is required to erect wind turbines.
Present systems are neither maintenance free nor
practically reliable.
convertor
Other forms (thermal potential) of storage
Interconnection with conventional electric utility goods
DESIGN
Rotor
The Windmill Head
Generator
Controls
Transmissions
Towers
Yaw Control
DESIGN
Towers
WORKING
When wind strikes the blades of the rotor some
CLASSIFICATION
blades
and drives a
to 4 blades.
BACK
coning.
rugged.
layer.
flapping.
BACK
BACK
is variation
number of sails used.
in
the
OBJECTIVES
Explain Design of Vertical Axis Machine
Explain Working of Vertical Axis Machine
List Advantages and Disadvantages of
blades.
heavy
Since the blades does not turn end over end so rotor is not
developed yet.
grinders etc.
oIt is used along with Darrieus rotor turbine for starting
purposes.
BACK
Darrieus Rotor
oIt has 2 or 3 thin, curved blades (egg beater) with
Advantages
direction.
oMachine can be mounted on the ground
eliminating tower structures and lifting of huge
weight of machine assembly.
oSince this machine has vertical axis symmetry it
eliminates the yaw control requirements.
oAirfoil rotor fabrication is reduced over the
conventional rotor blade costs.
oThe tip speed ratio and power coefficient are
considerably better than savonious rotor machine.
Darrieus Rotor
Disadvantages