PMA-OPT-2 | Online Design Tools for Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines

Submitted by AHMEDNA8 on Fri, 24/04/2020 - 18:36

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Blade Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
RPM at the cut-in wind speed (TSR)	114.65 RPM	n_cut_in
RPM at the nominal wind speed (TSR)	226.019 RPM	n_nom
Nominal tip speed ratio	5.25704	tsr_nom

Generator Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Rotor disk thickness	8 mm	hr
Magnet width-to-pole pitch ratio	0.125034	ai
Inner-to-outer magnet radius	0.936607	kd
Flux density in airgap	0.596655 T	Bmax
Flux density on magnet surface	0.655218 T	Bmg
First harmonic of flux density in airgap	0.142104 T	Bp
Flux per pole (Calculated)	0.000803041 Wb	Flux_pole
Magnets on a rotor disk	12	magnet_num
Distance between magnets	235.76 mm	dist_magnet_Rin
Magnet mass	1764 g	MagnetMass
Magnet density	7.5 g/cm3	mag_density
Volume of a single magnet	9800 mm3	Vmag
Volume of all magnets	235200 mm3	VolumeMagnet
Remanent magnetic flux density	1.45 T	Br
Magnetic coercivity	1120020 A/m	Hc
Maximum Energy Product	422 KJ/m³	BHmax
Outer diameter	1104.78 mm	Dout
Average radius	534.614 mm	Ravg
Inner radius	517.114 mm	Rin
Outer radius	552.392 mm	Rout
Effective outer radius	552.114 mm	Rout_eff
Mass of rotor disks	120.709 kgr	BackIronMass
Volume of rotor disks	15337.8 cm3	BackIronVolume
Maximum flux density in the magnet rotor disk	1.60714 T	SaturMAX
Is the magnet rotor disk saturated?	Yes	Saturation

Generator Stator Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Stator thickness	14 mm	tw
Number of phases	3	nphase
Number of coils per phase	3	q
Total number of coils in stator	9	coil_num
Number of turns per coil	88	Nc
Copper wire diameter	1.8 mm	dc
Number of wires at hand	5	No_wires_at_hand
Winding fill factor	0.49	kf
Copper wire cross-sectional area	12.7 mm2	sc
Copper wire cross-sectional area (Calculated)	11.4058 mm²	sc_theor
Copper wire cross-sectional area of a sinlge wire	2.54 mm²	sc_multi_wires
Copper wire diameter (Calculated)	3.81179 mm	dc_theor
Coil leg width	162.915 mm	wc
Average length of coil turn	651.555 mm	lavg
Stator nominal temperature	30.5602 C°	tc_real
Stator surface area	19106.7 cm²	stator_surface_area
Heat coefficient	0.0435008	cq_real
Current density	2.69429 A	Jmax_real
Resistivity of copper at nominal temperature	1.74708E-8 Ohm.m	pt
Resistance of a single coil	0.0788756 Ohm	Rc
Phase resistance	0.236627 Ohm	Rphase
Phase inductance	0.00392592 H	Ls
Nagaoka constant	0.055729	Kn
Winding coefficient	0.95	kw
Volume of a single coil	1486080 mm3	coil_volume
Weight of a single coil	6657.86 g	coil_weight_constr
Coil hole at Ravg	35 mm	coil_hole_Ravg
Coil hole at Rin	35 mm	coil_hole_Rin_constr
Coil hole at Rout	35 mm	coil_hole_Rout_constr
Coil mass for construction	66.5786 kgr	mcu_constr
EMF at the cut-in wind speed (Calculated)	10.264 V	EMF_cut_in
EMF at the nominal wind speed (Calculated)	20.2141 V	EMF_nom
Current at the nominal wind speed	34.2175 A	Iac_nom
Terminal voltage at the nominal wind speed	11.2904 V	V_term_line
Nominal frequency	22.6019 Hz	fnom
Generator power (Calculated)	1158.99 W	Pnom
Copper losses (Calculated)	831.156 W	Pcopper
Eddy current losses (Calculated)	13.3924 W	Peddy
Generator efficiency (Calculated)	0.56001	efficiency_real
AC Power at the rectifier (Calculated)	1043.09 W	Pnom_rect
DC Power at the batteries (Calculated)	938.781 W	Pnom_dc

Generator Bearing Hub Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Number of bolts on hub	5	No_bolts_hub
Mass of bearing hub	8344.46 g	BearingHubMass
Rotational losses (Calculated)	66.0472 W	Prot

Costs, Mass and Volume
Property	Value	Variable name
Total generator cost	1709.21 EUR	Totalcost
Total generator mass	194.12 kgr	TotalMass
Total generator volume	49.848 dm3	TotalVolume
Blade rotor mass	15.2925 kgr	blade_rotor_mass
Softwood density	500 kgr/m³	softwood_density
Cost of magnets	203.006 EUR	Magcost
Magnet shipping cost	14.2029 EUR	shippingcost
Copper mass	58.5891 kgr	mcu
Cost of copper	864.776 EUR	coppercost
Resin mass	13.0578 kgr	resinmass
Cost of resin	180.365 EUR	resincost
Resin volume	9601.29 cm3	ResinVolume
Total mass of one generator rotor	61.2364 kgr	TotalMassRotor
Cost of iron	148.472 EUR	ironcost
Surface area of moulds	1.97342 m2	woodS
Total cost of moulds	312.589 EUR	woodcost

Output files

Octave/Matlab variable file:

simulation-6303.mat

Input parameters

Blade Rotor Inputs

Turbine radius:

2.00m

Aerodynamic coefficient:

0.37

Cut-in wind speed:

3.00m/s

Nominal wind speed:

9.00m/s

Cut-in TSR:

8.00

Design TSR:

6.50

Air density:

1.225kg/m³

Generator Rotor Inputs

AFPM rotor topology:

Double Rotor

Magnetic material:

NdFeB N52

Number of generator poles:

Magnet length:

35mm

Magnet width:

35mm

Magnet thickness:

8mm

Rotor disk thickness:

User Defined

Rotor disk thickness:

8mm

Mechanical clearance:

3.00mm

Generator Stator Inputs

Select coil type:

Rectangular

Winding fill factor:

Calculated

Stator thickness:

Calculated

Current density:

3.00A/mm2

System Inputs

System voltage:

24.00V

Nominal voltage:

24.00V

Transmission cable losses:

10.00%

Rectifier losses:

10.00%

Financial

Copper price:

12.00€/kg

Iron price:

1.00€/kg

Resin price:

11.23€/kg

Plywood price:

17.60 €/m²

Simulation Inputs

Also run UserAFPM:

false

Constants

Copper resistivity:

1.678E-8 Ω·m

Copper density:

8.94g/cm³

Iron density:

7.87g/cm³

Resin density:

1.36g/cm³