Site Specific Design Optimization Of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Based On Minimum Cost Of Energy For Adama I Wind Farm

Ayalew Bekele; A.Venkata Ramayya

dc.contributor.author	Ayalew Bekele
dc.contributor.author	A.Venkata Ramayya
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-07T13:04:17Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-07T13:04:17Z
dc.date.issued	2013-07
dc.identifier.issn	2278-0181
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.ju.edu.et//handle/123456789/1868
dc.description.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	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine	en_US
dc.subject	Site Specific Design	en_US
dc.subject	Blade Element Momentum Theory	en_US
dc.subject	Minimum Cost of Energy, Annual Energy Productio	en_US
dc.title	Site Specific Design Optimization Of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Based On Minimum Cost Of Energy For Adama I Wind Farm	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US