scholarly journals Investigation of use small wind turbines under local wind conditions in Rabka-Zdrój

2020 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 06005
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Szulc-Wrońska ◽  
Barbara Tomaszewska
Keyword(s):  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Local Wind ◽  
National Research Institute ◽  
Health Resort ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
South West ◽  
Average Wind ◽  
Small Wind Turbines ◽  
Hybrid Renewable Energy

The paper presents an analysis of wind conditions for the health resort of Rabka-Zdrój. Rabka-Zdrój is a town located in southern Poland in the Rabczańska Valley surrounded by numerous hills. Archival meteorological data were obtained from the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management – National Research Institute, which until 2012 had a retention station in Rabka-Zdrój. A detailed analysis of the basic wind parameters has shown that prevailing wind speeds are in the range of 0.6-1.8 m/s. In addition, the dominant wind direction is west and southwest. For these directions, the average wind speeds in the analysed period are the highest, with the maximum recorded speed of 2.8 m/s for the south-west direction. What is more, in the health resort area, one can observe the frequent occurrence of atmospheric silence, from 16% to 45% in the analysed years. The total energy that can be obtained using a small wind turbine is low, therefore the possibility of using hybrid renewable energy sources should be considered.

scholarly journals Survei Penempatan Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Bayu Di Tanah Laut Berdasarkan Citra Radar Banjarmasin

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Hanif Kurniadi ◽  
Arifah Dwi Yuliani ◽  
Ismah Atikah Khairunnisa ◽  
Syadza Siskayani Putri ◽  
Eko Wardoyo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Meteorological Station ◽  
Maximum Height ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Average Wind ◽  
Radar Imagery

<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Indonesia's electricity consumption has increased every year. One way to overcome this problem is by utilizing renewable energy sources such as wind. Utilization of this energy uses wind turbines installed at locations that have met the requirements. Therefore, information on wind conditions in several layers is required by using radar products such as CAPPI, PPI, and HWIND which are processed using Rainbow 5 software and then interpreted in a daily wind speed graph. Data obtained from radar imagery of Syamsudin Noor Meteorological Station-Banjarmasin. And to determine the boundary conditions of the wind layer is determined according to the length of the turbine blades to calculate the minimum wind speed needed to drive the turbine blades. The results of this study show that wind conditions in layers of 100 to 600 meters tend to be the same, making it difficult to determine the maximum height of the wind layer and from 7 days of the observation sample, it is found that some average wind speeds per day are 4.076923 m / s, 4.777778 m / s, 4.393939 m / s, 0.75 m / s, 0.72973 m / s, 3.678571 m / s, and 1.4375 m / s, which are known to have not met the minimum wind speed requirements for wind farm (PLTB) to produce optimal energy.</p><p><strong>Abstrak: </strong>Konsumsi listrik Indonesia mengalami peningkatan setiap tahunnya. Salah satu untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut dengan memanfaatkan sumber energi terbarukan seperti angin. Pemanfaatan energi ini menggunakan turbin angin yang dipasang pada lokasi yang telah memenuhi syarat. Karena itu, diperlukan informasi kondisi angin dibeberapa lapisan dengan menggunakan produk radar seperti CAPPI, PPI, dan HWIND yang diolah menggunakan perangkat lunak Rainbow 5 lalu diintrepretasikan dalam grafik kecepatan angin harian. Data diperoleh dari citra radar Stasiun Meteorologi Kelas II Syamsudin Noor-Banjarmasin. Dan untuk menentukan kondisi batas lapisan angin ditentukan sesuai panjang dari baling-baling turbin untuk memperhitungkan kecepatan angin minimal yang diperlukan untuk menggerakkan baling-baling turbin. Hasil penelitian ini memperlihatkan kondisi angin di lapisan 100 hingga 600 meter cenderung sama, sehingga sulit untuk menentukan ketinggian lapisan angin maksimum dan dari 7 hari sebagai sampel pengamatan didapatkan beberapa kecepatan angin rata-rata perhari antara lain 4.076923 m/s,  4.777778 m/s,  4.393939 m/s, 0,75 m/s, 0.72973 m/s, 3.678571 m/s, dan 1.4375 m/s yang diketahui belum memenuhi persyaratan kecepatan angin minimum yang diperlukan Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Bayu (PLTB) untuk menghasilkan energi yang optimal.</p>

scholarly journals Optimal Configuration with Capacity Analysis of a Hybrid Renewable Energy and Storage System for an Island Application

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Ta Tsai ◽  
Teketay Mulu Beza ◽  
Wei-Bin Wu ◽  
Cheng-Chien Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Energy System ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Diesel Generator ◽  
Entropy Weight ◽  
Cost Of Energy ◽  
Hybrid Renewable Energy

The Philippines consists of 7100 islands, many of which still use fossil fuel diesel generators as the main source of electricity. This supply can be complemented by the use of renewable energy sources. This study uses a Philippine offshore island to optimize the capacity configuration of a hybrid energy system (HES). A thorough investigation was performed to understand the operating status of existing diesel generator sets, load power consumption, and collect the statistics of meteorological data and economic data. Using the Hybrid Optimization Models for Energy Resources (HOMER) software we simulate and analyze the techno-economics of different power supply systems containing stand-alone diesel systems, photovoltaic (PV)-diesel HES, wind-diesel HES, PV-wind-diesel HES, PV-diesel-storage HES, wind-diesel-storage HES, PV-wind-diesel-storage HES. In addition to the lowest cost of energy (COE), capital cost, fuel saving and occupied area, the study also uses entropy weight and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method to evaluate the optimal capacity configuration. The proposed method can also be applied to design hybrid renewable energy systems for other off-grid areas.

scholarly journals Run-Time and Statistical Pedestrian Level Wind Map for Downtown Toronto

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaxiang Chen ◽  
Michael Gianfelice ◽  
Nicole Izukawa ◽  
Ahmed Elshaer ◽  
Haitham Aboshosha
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Local Wind ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Wind Velocities

Rapid population growth and urbanization have led to the development of high-density and high-rise structures around the world. Tall structures in proximity can negatively affect pedestrian comfort by directing strong winds to the ground near the structure. Pedestrian level wind (PLW) may affect local businesses/services, pedestrian comfort and in extreme cases jeopardizes pedestrian safety. The downtown portion of the City of Toronto (∼10 km2) was chosen as the study region due to the recent development of many high-rise structures. The region was split into 10 zones and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was utilized to study the wind effects of the local building geometry and arrangements. Wind velocities were extracted from Computational Fluid Dynamics and coupled with historical meteorological data from Billy Bishop Airport. The coupled velocities from CFD were found to be within 20 and 5% RMSE, respectively, of the recorded data at the wind station for 85% of the sampled data. Wind velocities were then extracted at various elevations and coupled with meteorological weather data to generate real-time, historical, and statistical visualization of local wind fields. This study enables the prediction of real-time, historical, and statistical wind speeds, bearings at various elevations. Visualization of the flow field provides important insights for pedestrians, architects, engineers, and city planners regarding local wind speeds and identify problematic areas.

SHAPING OF AN AUTONOMOUS POWER SYSTEM FOR GUARANTEED POWER SUPPLY WITH THE PREDOMINANCE WIND ENERGY

2018 ◽  
pp. 28-50
Author(s):  
S. G. Ignatiev ◽  
S. V. Kiseleva
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Diesel Generator ◽  
Average Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Average Wind

Optimization of the autonomous wind-diesel plants composition and of their power for guaranteed energy supply, despite the long history of research, the diversity of approaches and methods, is an urgent problem. In this paper, a detailed analysis of the wind energy characteristics is proposed to shape an autonomous power system for a guaranteed power supply with predominance wind energy. The analysis was carried out on the basis of wind speed measurements in the south of the European part of Russia during 8 months at different heights with a discreteness of 10 minutes. As a result, we have obtained a sequence of average daily wind speeds and the sequences constructed by arbitrary variations in the distribution of average daily wind speeds in this interval. These sequences have been used to calculate energy balances in systems (wind turbines + diesel generator + consumer with constant and limited daily energy demand) and (wind turbines + diesel generator + consumer with constant and limited daily energy demand + energy storage). In order to maximize the use of wind energy, the wind turbine integrally for the period in question is assumed to produce the required amount of energy. For the generality of consideration, we have introduced the relative values of the required energy, relative energy produced by the wind turbine and the diesel generator and relative storage capacity by normalizing them to the swept area of the wind wheel. The paper shows the effect of the average wind speed over the period on the energy characteristics of the system (wind turbine + diesel generator + consumer). It was found that the wind turbine energy produced, wind turbine energy used by the consumer, fuel consumption, and fuel economy depend (close to cubic dependence) upon the specified average wind speed. It was found that, for the same system with a limited amount of required energy and high average wind speed over the period, the wind turbines with lower generator power and smaller wind wheel radius use wind energy more efficiently than the wind turbines with higher generator power and larger wind wheel radius at less average wind speed. For the system (wind turbine + diesel generator + energy storage + consumer) with increasing average speed for a given amount of energy required, which in general is covered by the energy production of wind turbines for the period, the maximum size capacity of the storage device decreases. With decreasing the energy storage capacity, the influence of the random nature of the change in wind speed decreases, and at some values of the relative capacity, it can be neglected.

scholarly journals Techno-Economic Analysis of a Novel Hydrogen-Based Hybrid Renewable Energy System for Both Grid-Tied and Off-Grid Power Supply in Japan: The Case of Fukushima Prefecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoto Takatsu ◽  
Hooman Farzaneh
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Economic Assessment ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Integrated Simulation ◽  
Hybrid Renewable Energy System ◽  
Renewable Energy System ◽  
Hybrid Renewable Energy

After the Great East Japan Earthquake, energy security and vulnerability have become critical issues facing the Japanese energy system. The integration of renewable energy sources to meet specific regional energy demand is a promising scenario to overcome these challenges. To this aim, this paper proposes a novel hydrogen-based hybrid renewable energy system (HRES), in which hydrogen fuel can be produced using both the methods of solar electrolysis and supercritical water gasification (SCWG) of biomass feedstock. The produced hydrogen is considered to function as an energy storage medium by storing renewable energy until the fuel cell converts it to electricity. The proposed HRES is used to meet the electricity demand load requirements for a typical household in a selected residential area located in Shinchi-machi in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan. The techno-economic assessment of deploying the proposed systems was conducted, using an integrated simulation-optimization modeling framework, considering two scenarios: (1) minimization of the total cost of the system in an off-grid mode and (2) maximization of the total profit obtained from using renewable electricity and selling surplus solar electricity to the grid, considering the feed-in-tariff (FiT) scheme in a grid-tied mode. As indicated by the model results, the proposed HRES can generate about 47.3 MWh of electricity in all scenarios, which is needed to meet the external load requirement in the selected study area. The levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of the system in scenarios 1 and 2 was estimated at 55.92 JPY/kWh and 56.47 JPY/kWh, respectively.

scholarly journals Analysis of Performance of the Wind-Driven Pulverizing Aerator Based on Average Wind Speeds in the Conditions of Góreckie Lake

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 2796
Author(s):  
Andrzej Osuch ◽  
Ewa Osuch ◽  
Stanisław Podsiadłowski ◽  
Piotr Rybacki
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Wind Speed ◽  
Water Pump ◽  
Average Wind Speed ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Average Wind ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Analysis Of Performance ◽  
Research Period

In the introduction to this paper, the characteristics of Góreckie lake and the construction and operation of the wind-driven pulverizing aerator are presented. The purpose of this manuscript is to determine the efficiency of the pulverizing aerator unit in the windy conditions of Góreckie Lake. The efficiency of the pulverization aerator depends on the wind conditions at the lake. It was necessary to conduct thorough research to determine the efficiency of water flow through the pulverization segment (water pump). It was necessary to determine the rotational speed of the paddle wheel, which depended on the average wind speed. Throughout the research period, measurements of hourly average wind speed were carried out. It was possible to determine the efficiency of the machine by developing a dedicated mathematical model. The latest method was used in the research, consisting of determining the theoretical volumetric flow rates of water in the pulverizing aerator unit, based on average hourly wind speeds. Pulverization efficiency under the conditions of Góreckie Lake was determined based on 6600 average wind speeds for spring, summer and autumn, 2018. Based on the model, the theoretical efficiency of the machine was calculated, which, under the conditions of Góreckie Lake, amounted to 75,000 m3 per year.

scholarly journals Rapid coral mortality following unusually calm and hot conditions on Iriomote, Japan

F1000Research ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew H Baird ◽  
Sally A. Keith ◽  
Erika Woolsey ◽  
Ryuta Yoshida ◽  
Tohru Naruse
Keyword(s):  
Water Movement ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Bleaching Event ◽  
Coral Mortality ◽  
Average Wind Speed ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Average Wind ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Low Wind Speeds

Coral bleaching can be induced by many different stressors, however, the most common cause of mass bleaching in the field is higher than average sea surface temperatures (SST). Here, we describe an unusual bleaching event that followed very calm sea conditions combined with higher than average SST. Patterns of mortality differed from typical bleaching in four ways: 1) mortality was very rapid; 2) a different suite of species were most affected; 3) tissue mortality in Acropora spp. was often restricted to the center of the colony; 4) the event occurred early in summer. The two weeks prior to the event included 8 days where the average wind speed was less than 3 ms-1. In addition, SSTs in the weeks preceding and during the event were 1.0-1.5°C higher than the mean for the last 30 years. We hypothesize that this unusual bleaching event was caused by anoxia resulting from a lack of water movement induced by low wind speeds combined with high SST.

Blade Design Criteria to Compensate the Flow Curvature Effects in H-Darrieus Wind Turbines

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Balduzzi ◽  
Alessandro Bianchini ◽  
Riccardo Maleci ◽  
Giovanni Ferrara ◽  
Lorenzo Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Scale Effects ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Curvature Effects ◽  
Average Wind ◽  
Energy Scenario ◽  
Flow Curvature ◽  
Real Flow

Darrieus wind turbines are experiencing a renewed interest in the wind energy scenario, in particular whenever small and medium-size installations are considered. In these contexts, the average wind speeds are generally quite low due to scale effects and therefore the most exploited design choices for the turbines are the H-shape configuration, as the entire blade can take advantage of the maximum rotational radius, and high chord to radius ratios, in order to ensure suitable Reynolds numbers on the airfoils. By doing so, the aerodynamic effects induced by the motion of the airfoils in a curved flowpath become more evident and the airfoils themselves have to be designed to compensate these phenomena if conventional design tools based on the BEM theory are used. In this study, fully unsteady 2D simulations were exploited to analyze a three-bladed H-Darrieus wind turbine in order to define the real flow structure and its effects on the turbine performance; in detail, the influence of both the virtual camber and the virtual incidence were investigated. CFD results were supported by experimental data collected on full-scale models reproducing two different airfoil mountings. Finally, the proper design criteria to compensate these phenomena are proposed and their benefits on a conventional simulation with a BEM approach are discussed.

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