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Wind Design Example Wind Resorce Assesment Assesment: Project Location

This document discusses wind resource assessment for a project location. It provides information on measuring the wind speed distribution, which can be represented by a Weibull distribution function. This function characterizes the windiness and consistency of wind speeds at a location. The document then shows how to calculate the shape and scale parameters of the Weibull distribution by plotting the wind speed data and fitting a line to determine the gradient and intercept. For the example location, the shape parameter is 1.42 and scale parameter is 5.82, indicating generally good wind power potential.

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Wind Design Example Wind Resorce Assesment Assesment: Project Location

This document discusses wind resource assessment for a project location. It provides information on measuring the wind speed distribution, which can be represented by a Weibull distribution function. This function characterizes the windiness and consistency of wind speeds at a location. The document then shows how to calculate the shape and scale parameters of the Weibull distribution by plotting the wind speed data and fitting a line to determine the gradient and intercept. For the example location, the shape parameter is 1.42 and scale parameter is 5.82, indicating generally good wind power potential.

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WindDesignExample

Wind Resorce Assesment

Locationofthesite

WindSpeedProbabilityDistribution (ApproximatelyWeibull)

ProjectLocation

Windspeeddistribution
Measurements ofwindspeeddistributionorfrequencydistributionisanessential ingredientincalculatingtheoutputofthewindenergyataparticularsite.The windspeeddistributioncanbemathematically represented byseveralanalytical functions. Oneofthemathematical functionsthathavebeensuccessfully appliedtofitwind speeddistributionsistheWeibull distributionfunction.Thegeneralformofthe Weibull distributionfunction,whichisatwoparameterfunction,forwindspeedis givenby,

(Reference: Modeling Wind Speed Distributions inSelected Weather Stations: Proceedings ofthe Technical Sessions, 23 (2007) 16Institute ofPhysics SriLanka)

Wheref(v)istheprobabilityofobservingwindspeedv,kisdimensionlessWeibull shapeparameterandcisascaleparameter havingunitsofwindspeed

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CumulativeDistributionFunction
Scaleparameter,c,indicateswindinessofalocationunder consideration,whereastheshapeparameter,k,indicatessharpnessof thewindspeeddistribution(i.e.ifmeasuredwindspeedsareveryclose toacertainvalue,thedistributionwillhaveahighkvalueandbe narrow) Thecumulativedistributionfunctionisgivenas,

Fittingtheaboveequationtoasetofwindspeeddatadeterminesthe parametersoftheWeibull distributionfunction.Takingthenatural logarithmsofbothsidesoftheaboveequationtwice,gives,ln{ln[1 F(v)]=kln(v) kln(c) Thusaplotofln{ln[1F(v)]Vsln(v)representsastraightlineofwhich thegradientiskandtheinterceptiskln(c).

Plotofln{ln[1F(v)]Vsln(v

ShapeParameterandScaleParameter
Fromthegraphkandcareestimated.
ShapeParameter(k)=1.42 ScaleParameter(c)=5.82

Shapeparameterof1.42andscalarparameter of5.82representgoodpowerinthewind.

CumulativeWindSpeedDistribution

ShapeParameter
ThehigherthevalueofShape (from1to3)thehigher themedianwindspeed. p aswellassome Locationswithlotsoflowwindspeeds verystrongwindswouldhaveavalueofshapeof below2. Locationswithfairlyconsistentwindspeedsaround themedianwouldhaveashapevalueof3.

Energy Calculation

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