Wind resource assessment

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Wind resource assessment
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Video: Energy Production
1. Wind
1 point Assessment
probability distribution function (PDF) will be accurate for an annual resource

13 min
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wind data are averaged over 10 min Personal work: data analysis

Reading: Introduction to the module

Data Analysis Project
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2 min
the mean wind value exceeds 10 m/s Like Dislike Report an issue
Video: Variability of the vertical wind
shear
If the

6 min
wind interval is less than 1m/s
Quiz: The wind shear exponent
variability
If

6 questions
we have daily averaged wind values
Video: Probability distribution of the
wind velocity
If
4 min
we have at least 1000 wind measurements per year
Quiz: Weibull distributions
4 questions

Video: An example of wind turbine

power production assessment
2. At a given location, the wind distribution function is generally approximated by a Weibull law: 1 point 6 min

Quiz: power production assessment

4 questions

with k and C the two parameters of the law. Find which sentence is true ?

The value of the mean wind speed <V> only allows to deduce the parameters k and C.

The mean velocity <V> depends only on C

The probability to find a wind speed lower than C is about 60%.

The probability to have strong winds increases when k decreases if C

stays constant

3. From
1 point
your knowledge on meteorology and Weibull wind probability distribution law

find which of the following sentences are true

higher

C always implies higher mean wind speed

For

a given site the parameters k and C vary with the season.

the Weibull parameters k

and C are dimensionless

The

parameters k and C obtained from data at a given height change if we consider a

different height

higher k, for the same C, implies a higher variability in the wind speed

4. The
1 point
Weibull law will fit accurately the PDF of the observed winds when

Two

distinct physical processes (sea breeze and synoptic winds for instance) could occurs

Winds

are weaker in summer than during winter

The

Power Density method is closer to data than the graphical method

The

wind speed distribution have a single peak

The Cramer

Von-Mises score Wn2 exceed 5

5. Q.E.1
1 point
We

consider two distinct sites for which the following Weibull parameters have

been determined:

Site

1: k=1.5, C=4.0 m/s

Site

2: k=2.2, C=4.1 m/s

To answer the following questions take the time to do some quantitative calculations using the following curve

for the gamma function.

With a

precision of 10% the two sites have same wind power density (proportional to

the cube of the wind speed)

The

wind kinetic energy potential is significantly larger in site 2 than in site 1

The

knowledge of the mean wind speed allows a good estimation of the energy

production potential of a site.

The wind kinetic energy potential is significantly larger in site 1 than

in site 2

With a

precision of 10 % the two sites have the same mean wind speed

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