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Exploring Wind Energy

Rajat Barman

What Makes Wind

History of Wind Energy


5000 BC
500-900 AD
1300 AD
1850s
Late 1880s
Sailboats used
First
First
Daniel Halladay and Thomas O. Perry
on the Nile
windmills horizontal-axis John Burnham build conducted 5,000
indicate the
developed in windmills in
Halladay Windmill; wind experiments;
power of wind
Persia
Europe
start US Wind
starts Aermotor
Engine Company
Company

1888
Charles F. Brush
used windmill to
generate electricity
in Cleveland, OH

Early 1900s
Windmills in CA
pumped saltwater
to evaporate ponds

1941
In VT, Grandpas
Knob turbine
supplies power to
town during WWII

1979
First wind turbine
rated over 1 MW
began operating

wind power in India began in the 1986 with first


wind farms being set up in coastal areas of Maharasahtra (
Ratnagiri), Gujarat (Okha) andTamil Nadu (Tuticorin) with 55
kW Vestas wind turbines.
Wind power accounts nearly 8.6% of India's total installed
power generation capacity and generated 28,604 millionKwh

Why Wind Energy?


o

Clean, zero emissions


- NOx, SO2, CO, CO2
- Air quality, water quality
- Climate change

Reduce fossil fuel dependence


- Energy independent

Renewable

- No fuel-price volatility

Renewable Electric Capacity


Wind energy is one of the fastest growing energy resources
Worldwide
in the world. For the last five years it has been growing at a
rate of 24-32%.

China Leads the World in Wind Capacity


Total Installed Generating Capacity
(MW)
Top
Top 5
5 Countries
Countries for
for 2013
2013
New
New Installed
Installed Capacity
Capacity
1.
1. China
China
2.
2. Germany
Germany
3.
3. United
United Kingdom
Kingdom
4.
4. India
India
5.
5. Canada
Canada

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Turbines can
be
categorized
into two
classes
based on the
orientation
of the rotor.

Modern Wind Turbines

Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines


Small (<10 kW)

Intermediate(10-250 kW

oHomes
oFarms
oRemote
Applications
(e.g., water pumping,
)

oVillage Power
oHybrid Systems
oDistributed Power

Large (250 kW-2+ MW)

oCentral Station Wind Farms


oDistributed Power

Large Wind Turbines

Common UtilityScale Turbines

328 base to blade


Each blade is 112
200 tons total
Foundation 20
deep
Rated at 1.5-2
megawatts
Supply about 500
homes

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How a Wind Turbine Operates

Efficiency Varies with


Wind Speed
A given wind turbine has a "design point" that
generally defines its peak efficiency at the wind
speed for which the system is designed.
If a turbine's best efficiency is 40% at a wind
velocity of 9 meters per second (about 20
mph), it will be 40% only at that wind speed.
At all other wind speeds it will be something
worse.
That wind turbine will generally operate at
lower than its best efficiency, because wind
speeds are never constant or average.

Wind Farms

air

P=1/2 A^3
P=power
=density of

Potential Impacts and Issues

Noise
Land Use
Wildlife Impact

Properly siting a wind turbine can mitigate many of these


issues.

Thank You

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