Abstract:
The essence of this work is to project the potential
savings offered by site specific design of wind
turbine. XFOIL has been used to generate profiles for
S-series airfoils for blade design process and
validated with experimental results from literature.
Standard cost models of HAWT are scaled for cost
spent on Adama I wind Farm and validated with
Commercial prices globally available. The Annual
Energy Production (AEP) has been evaluated by an
open source HAWT optimization code, named
HARP_Opt in this work. Baseline case and three
scenarios have been generated to investigate the
effect of airfoil profiles and turbine rated power on
AEP and Cost of Energy. An increase of 12 to 28.5%
in net AEP has been observed with an attendant
reduction in Cost of Energy by 8.44 to 17.6%.
Atmospheric turbulence effect on AEP has also been
investigated and found to reduce net annual energy
by1.8 % to 5.5%. For Adama I, Wind Farm with
capacity of 51MW, $2.13 million savings per year
has been projected
