Student ID: _______________Section ________ Name _________________________

Department: Electrical Engineering Program: BS (EL)

Assignment 1
EL-408 Renewable Energy Systems

Announced date: 26/12/2019 Due Date: 03/01/2020 Total Marks = 10

Marks Obtained =
Teacher Name: Engr. Fawad Shaukat

Complex Engineering Problem

Sr. No Course Learning Outcomes Blooms PLOs Knowledge Complex Problem
Taxonomy Profile Solving
WP1
Understanding of technologies C2 PLO_4 WK2 (Depth of Knowledge
CLO_2 available in renewables with Understanding (WA4) Mathematics, required)
parametric analysis of Wind Investigation Numerical WP3
Energy Conversion systems Analysis, ( Depth of Analysis
Statistics required)
WP7
( Interdependence)
Problem :
The variation in wind speed is best described by the Weibull probability distribution function h
with two parameters, the shape parameter k, and the scale parameter c. The probability of wind
speed being v during any time interval is given by the following Equation 1:

In the probability distribution chart, h over a chosen time period is plotted against v, where h is
defined as follows in Equation 2:

1
the probability that the wind speed will be between zero and infinity during the entire chosen

time period is unity, i.e.:

Plot h vs. v for three different values of k in Equation 1

The Weibull distribution with k = 1 is called the exponential distribution, which is generally used
in reliability studies. For k > 3, it approaches the normal distribution, often called the Gaussian
or the bell-shaped distribution, while k = 2 makes it the Rayleigh distribution