Clone of pmg8 | Online Design Tools for Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines

Submitted by AHMEDNA8 on Thu, 30/04/2020 - 02:18

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Results

Blade Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
RPM at the cut-in wind speed (TSR)	121.815 RPM	n_cut_in
RPM at the nominal wind speed (TSR)	371.848 RPM	n_nom
Nominal tip speed ratio	11.12	tsr_nom

Generator Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Rotor disk thickness	10 mm	hr
Magnet width-to-pole pitch ratio	0.188729	ai
Inner-to-outer magnet radius	0.928535	kd
Flux density in airgap	0.559989 T	Bmax
Flux density on magnet surface	0.733762 T	Bmg
First harmonic of flux density in airgap	0.241499 T	Bp
Flux per pole (Calculated)	0.00029373 Wb	Flux_pole
Magnets on a rotor disk	16	magnet_num
Distance between magnets	82.0453 mm	dist_magnet_Rin
Magnet mass	960 g	MagnetMass
Magnet density	7.5 g/cm3	mag_density
Volume of a single magnet	4000 mm3	Vmag
Volume of all magnets	128000 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	560.069 mm	Dout
Average radius	269.856 mm	Ravg
Inner radius	259.856 mm	Rin
Outer radius	280.035 mm	Rout
Effective outer radius	279.856 mm	Rout_eff
Mass of rotor disks	38.7774 kgr	BackIronMass
Volume of rotor disks	4927.24 cm3	BackIronVolume
Maximum flux density in the magnet rotor disk	0.892815 T	SaturMAX
Is the magnet rotor disk saturated?	No	Saturation

Generator Stator Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Stator thickness	17 mm	tw
Number of phases	3	nphase
Number of coils per phase	4	q
Total number of coils in stator	12	coil_num
Number of turns per coil	64	Nc
Copper wire diameter	1.8 mm	dc
Number of wires at hand	3	No_wires_at_hand
Winding fill factor	0.48	kf
Copper wire cross-sectional area	7.62 mm2	sc
Copper wire cross-sectional area (Calculated)	6.89743 mm²	sc_theor
Copper wire cross-sectional area of a sinlge wire	2.54 mm²	sc_multi_wires
Copper wire diameter (Calculated)	2.96421 mm	dc_theor
Coil leg width	60.3624 mm	wc
Average length of coil turn	240.956 mm	lavg
Stator nominal temperature	31.8878 C°	tc_real
Stator surface area	3490.73 cm²	stator_surface_area
Heat coefficient	0.0523342	cq_real
Current density	2.71552 A	Jmax_real
Resistivity of copper at nominal temperature	1.75687E-8 Ohm.m	pt
Resistance of a single coil	0.0355552 Ohm	Rc
Phase resistance	0.142221 Ohm	Rphase
Phase inductance	0.000858677 H	Ls
Nagaoka constant	0.153455	Kn
Winding coefficient	0.95	kw
Volume of a single coil	247260 mm3	coil_volume
Weight of a single coil	1083.37 g	coil_weight_constr
Coil hole at Ravg	20 mm	coil_hole_Ravg
Coil hole at Rin	14.8336 mm	coil_hole_Rin_constr
Coil hole at Rout	25.299 mm	coil_hole_Rout_constr
Coil mass for construction	14.0838 kgr	mcu_constr
EMF at the cut-in wind speed (Calculated)	5.132 V	EMF_cut_in
EMF at the nominal wind speed (Calculated)	15.7276 V	EMF_nom
Current at the nominal wind speed	20.6923 A	Iac_nom
Terminal voltage at the nominal wind speed	11.2904 V	V_term_line
Nominal frequency	49.5798 Hz	fnom
Generator power (Calculated)	700.873 W	Pnom
Copper losses (Calculated)	182.684 W	Pcopper
Eddy current losses (Calculated)	37.5049 W	Peddy
Generator efficiency (Calculated)	0.723898	efficiency_real
AC Power at the rectifier (Calculated)	630.786 W	Pnom_rect
DC Power at the batteries (Calculated)	567.707 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)	47.1313 W	Prot

Costs, Mass and Volume
Property	Value	Variable name
Total generator cost	535.156 EUR	Totalcost
Total generator mass	57.6064 kgr	TotalMass
Total generator volume	14.5354 dm3	TotalVolume
Blade rotor mass	15.2925 kgr	blade_rotor_mass
Softwood density	500 kgr/m³	softwood_density
Cost of magnets	111.525 EUR	Magcost
Magnet shipping cost	7.72947 EUR	shippingcost
Copper mass	12.6064 kgr	mcu
Cost of copper	186.071 EUR	coppercost
Resin mass	5.26265 kgr	resinmass
Cost of resin	72.6924 EUR	resincost
Resin volume	3869.59 cm3	ResinVolume
Total mass of one generator rotor	19.8687 kgr	TotalMassRotor
Cost of iron	47.6962 EUR	ironcost
Surface area of moulds	0.739719 m2	woodS
Total cost of moulds	117.172 EUR	woodcost

Output files

Octave/Matlab variable file:

simulation-6348.mat

Input parameters

Blade Rotor Inputs

Turbine radius:

2.00m

Aerodynamic coefficient:

0.37

Cut-in wind speed:

3.00m/s

Nominal wind speed:

7.00m/s

Cut-in TSR:

8.50

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:

20mm

Magnet width:

20mm

Magnet thickness:

10mm

Rotor disk thickness:

Calculated

Mechanical clearance:

1.00mm

Generator Stator Inputs

Select coil type:

Keyhole

Winding fill factor:

Calculated

Stator thickness:

Calculated

Current density:

3.00A/mm2

System Inputs

System voltage:

12.00V

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