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First and Final Drafts of Wind Farm Design
First and Final Drafts of Wind Farm Design
Advisor:-
Ghassan Tashtoush
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Outlines
Project description
Wind Site Information
Performance Matching
Design layout of The Wind Farm
Simulation Using SAM
Economic Analysis
3 Project description
The main objective of this project is to design an onshore wind farm in Tafila, Jordan with
a total capacity of 6MW connected to the grid.
Design steps:
1) Select a suitable site with strong wind spectra distribution to install the wind farm.
2) Apply a performance matching to select the best wind turbine for the site.
The scale factor (c) and the shape factor (k) has been found using Weibull
distribution:
12 478.1 4.18*10⁶
*The equations used for the following calculations are available in the appendix.
6 Performance Matching
To identify the best wind turbine to be installed in the selected location according to
higher:
1. Total energy production (ET) of the turbine.
2. capacity factor (CF): reflects how effectively the turbine could harness the energy
available in the wind spectra.
Six different wind turbines have been selected from Sam library according to:
Rated velocity of the turbine should be close to the maximum velocity contributing to the
maximum energy.
Rotor diameter Rated velocity Output power Turbine Turbine
(m) (m/s) (KW) name .No
28 11 200 Electriawind Garbi 1
200/28
=
=12 turbine
9 EWT Directwind 52 500KW turbine power curve
Rated power
Cut-in speed
Rated speed
Cut-out speed
10 Design layout of Wind Farm
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Simulation
Using
SAM
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15 Economic Analysis
Cost Analysis of Wind Farm system
Total
Total load
load of
of the
the system
system 6MW
6MW
Annual energy production 18.396GWh per year
Annual energy production 18.396GWh per year
Capacity factor for wind farm 0.35
Number
Capacityof Turbines
factor for wind farm 12
0.35
Turbine Rated power 500KW
Number of Turbines 12
Expected Life time 20 years
Turbine Rated power
Price of electricity per KWh 500KW
0.12 $/KWh
Expected Lifeturbine
Price of wind time and Installation 20 years
$1500/KW
per KW
Price of electricity per KWh 0.12 $/KWh
Payback Period (n)
Price of wind turbine and Installation $1500/KW
per KW
Payback Period (n)
16 Appendix