3m60 grid tied | Online Design Tools for Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines

Submitted by tieole on Wed, 28/03/2018 - 06:06

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Results

Blade Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
RPM at the cut-in wind speed (TSR)	69.6656 RPM	n_cut_in
RPM at the nominal wind speed (TSR)	324.379 RPM	n_nom
Nominal tip speed ratio	12.2226	tsr_nom

Generator Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Rotor disk thickness	10 mm	hr
Magnet width-to-pole pitch ratio	0.178294	ai
Inner-to-outer magnet radius	0.898112	kd
Flux density in airgap	0.577476 T	Bmax
Flux density on magnet surface	0.645027 T	Bmg
First harmonic of flux density in airgap	0.203451 T	Bp
Flux per pole (Calculated)	0.000890668 Wb	Flux_pole
Magnets on a rotor disk	16	magnet_num
Distance between magnets	129.23 mm	dist_magnet_Rin
Magnet mass	3312 g	MagnetMass
Magnet density	7.5 g/cm3	mag_density
Volume of a single magnet	13800 mm3	Vmag
Volume of all magnets	441600 mm3	VolumeMagnet
Remanent magnetic flux density	1.265 T	Br
Magnetic coercivity	982324 A/m	Hc
Maximum Energy Product	326 KJ/m³	BHmax
Outer diameter	903.448 mm	Dout
Average radius	428.475 mm	Ravg
Inner radius	405.475 mm	Rin
Outer radius	451.724 mm	Rout
Effective outer radius	451.475 mm	Rout_eff
Mass of rotor disks	100.902 kgr	BackIronMass
Volume of rotor disks	12821.1 cm3	BackIronVolume
Maximum flux density in the magnet rotor disk	1.11447 T	SaturMAX
Is the magnet rotor disk saturated?	No	Saturation

Generator Stator Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Stator thickness	13 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	368	Nc
Copper wire diameter	1.5 mm	dc
Number of wires at hand	1	No_wires_at_hand
Winding fill factor	0.55	kf
Copper wire cross-sectional area	1.77 mm2	sc
Copper wire cross-sectional area (Calculated)	1.70685 mm²	sc_theor
Copper wire cross-sectional area of a sinlge wire	1.77 mm²	sc_multi_wires
Copper wire diameter (Calculated)	1.47456 mm	dc_theor
Coil leg width	91.0993 mm	wc
Average length of coil turn	438.052 mm	lavg
Stator nominal temperature	66.3515 C°	tc_real
Stator surface area	9577.49 cm²	stator_surface_area
Heat coefficient	0.231712	cq_real
Current density	5.78594 A	Jmax_real
Resistivity of copper at nominal temperature	1.93609E-8 Ohm.m	pt
Resistance of a single coil	1.76329 Ohm	Rc
Phase resistance	7.05317 Ohm	Rphase
Phase inductance	0.0659113 H	Ls
Nagaoka constant	0.0824321	Kn
Winding coefficient	0.95	kw
Volume of a single coil	518781 mm3	coil_volume
Weight of a single coil	2564.71 g	coil_weight_constr
Coil hole at Ravg	30 mm	coil_hole_Ravg
Coil hole at Rin	30 mm	coil_hole_Rin_constr
Coil hole at Rout	30 mm	coil_hole_Rout_constr
Coil mass for construction	33.3412 kgr	mcu_constr
EMF at the cut-in wind speed (Calculated)	51.32 V	EMF_cut_in
EMF at the nominal wind speed (Calculated)	239.213 V	EMF_nom
Current at the nominal wind speed	10.2411 A	Iac_nom
Terminal voltage at the nominal wind speed	164.652 V	V_term_line
Nominal frequency	43.2506 Hz	fnom
Generator power (Calculated)	5058.65 W	Pnom
Copper losses (Calculated)	2219.22 W	Pcopper
Eddy current losses (Calculated)	14.886 W	Peddy
Generator efficiency (Calculated)	0.681071	efficiency_real
AC Power at the rectifier (Calculated)	4552.79 W	Pnom_rect
DC Power at the batteries (Calculated)	4097.51 W	Pnom_dc

Generator Bearing Hub Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Number of bolts on hub	6	No_bolts_hub
Mass of bearing hub	14290.7 g	BearingHubMass
Rotational losses (Calculated)	134.741 W	Prot

Costs, Mass and Volume
Property	Value	Variable name
Total generator cost	1238.21 EUR	Totalcost
Total generator mass	143.909 kgr	TotalMass
Total generator volume	37.8223 dm3	TotalVolume
Blade rotor mass	89.1857 kgr	blade_rotor_mass
Softwood density	500 kgr/m³	softwood_density
Cost of magnets	307.406 EUR	Magcost
Magnet shipping cost	26.6667 EUR	shippingcost
Copper mass	30.6101 kgr	mcu
Cost of copper	451.806 EUR	coppercost
Resin mass	9.08413 kgr	resinmass
Cost of resin	125.478 EUR	resincost
Resin volume	6679.51 cm3	ResinVolume
Total mass of one generator rotor	52.1072 kgr	TotalMassRotor
Cost of iron	124.11 EUR	ironcost
Surface area of moulds	1.44829 m2	woodS
Total cost of moulds	229.409 EUR	woodcost

Output files

Octave/Matlab variable file:

simulation-464.mat

Input parameters

Blade Rotor Inputs

Turbine radius:

3.60m

Aerodynamic coefficient:

0.30

Cut-in wind speed:

3.00m/s

Nominal wind speed:

10.00m/s

Cut-in TSR:

8.75

Design TSR:

7.00

Air density:

1.204kg/m³

Generator Rotor Inputs

AFPM rotor topology:

Double Rotor

Magnetic material:

NdFeB N40

Number of generator poles:

Magnet length:

46mm

Magnet width:

30mm

Magnet thickness:

10mm

Rotor disk thickness:

User Defined

Rotor disk thickness:

10mm

Mechanical clearance:

3.00mm

Generator Stator Inputs

Select coil type:

Rectangular

Winding fill factor:

User defined

Winding fill factor:

0.55

Stator thickness:

User defined

Stator thickness:

13mm

Current density:

6.00A/mm2

System Inputs

System voltage:

120.00V

Nominal voltage:

350.00V

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