thesis 3 magn | Online Design Tools for Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines

Submitted by Felrin floyd on Sun, 26/04/2020 - 05:56

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00:00:06

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Results

Blade Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
RPM at the cut-in wind speed (TSR)	417.994 RPM	n_cut_in
RPM at the nominal wind speed (TSR)	623.113 RPM	n_nom
Nominal tip speed ratio	2.60877	tsr_nom

Generator Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Rotor disk thickness	10 mm	hr
Magnet width-to-pole pitch ratio	0.980086	ai
Inner-to-outer magnet radius	0.44417	kd
Flux density in airgap	0.480021 T	Bmax
Flux density on magnet surface	0.61163 T	Bmg
First harmonic of flux density in airgap	0.424921 T	Bp
Flux per pole (Calculated)	0.00090982 Wb	Flux_pole
Magnets on a rotor disk	8	magnet_num
Distance between magnets	-14.1504 mm	dist_magnet_Rin
Magnet mass	2079.36 g	MagnetMass
Magnet density	7.5 g/cm3	mag_density
Volume of a single magnet	17328 mm3	Vmag
Volume of all magnets	277248 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	141.915 mm	Dout
Average radius	49.3662 mm	Ravg
Inner radius	30.3662 mm	Rin
Outer radius	70.9573 mm	Rout
Effective outer radius	68.3662 mm	Rout_eff
Mass of rotor disks	2.48971 kgr	BackIronMass
Volume of rotor disks	316.354 cm3	BackIronVolume

Generator Stator Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Stator thickness	34 mm	tw
Number of phases	3	nphase
Number of coils per phase	2	q
Total number of coils in stator	6	coil_num
Number of turns per coil	48	Nc
Copper wire diameter	1.8 mm	dc
Number of wires at hand	1	No_wires_at_hand
Winding fill factor	0.55	kf
Copper wire cross-sectional area	2.54 mm2	sc
Copper wire cross-sectional area (Calculated)	2.5382 mm²	sc_theor
Copper wire cross-sectional area of a sinlge wire	2.54 mm²	sc_multi_wires
Copper wire diameter (Calculated)	1.79816 mm	dc_theor
Coil leg width	6.58498 mm	wc
Average length of coil turn	160.313 mm	lavg
Stator nominal temperature	210.698 C°	tc_real
Stator surface area	126.679 cm²	stator_surface_area
Heat coefficient	0.669934	cq_real
Current density	5.99574 A	Jmax_real
Resistivity of copper at nominal temperature	2.01306E-8 Ohm.m	pt
Resistance of a single coil	0.0609863 Ohm	Rc
Phase resistance	0.121973 Ohm	Rphase
Phase inductance	0.00018135 H	Ls
Nagaoka constant	0.520654	Kn
Winding coefficient	0.95	kw
Volume of a single coil	35892.3 mm3	coil_volume
Weight of a single coil	182.016 g	coil_weight_constr
Coil hole at Ravg	38 mm	coil_hole_Ravg
Coil hole at Rin	17.8614 mm	coil_hole_Rin_constr
Coil hole at Rout	56.206 mm	coil_hole_Rout_constr
Coil mass for construction	1.27411 kgr	mcu_constr
EMF at the cut-in wind speed (Calculated)	10.264 V	EMF_cut_in
EMF at the nominal wind speed (Calculated)	15.3063 V	EMF_nom
Current at the nominal wind speed	15.2292 A	Iac_nom
Terminal voltage at the nominal wind speed	11.2904 V	V_term_line
Nominal frequency	41.5409 Hz	fnom
Generator power (Calculated)	515.831 W	Pnom
Copper losses (Calculated)	84.8664 W	Pcopper
Eddy current losses (Calculated)	6.86369 W	Peddy
Generator efficiency (Calculated)	0.834149	efficiency_real
AC Power at the rectifier (Calculated)	464.248 W	Pnom_rect
DC Power at the batteries (Calculated)	417.823 W	Pnom_dc

Generator Bearing Hub Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Number of bolts on hub	4	No_bolts_hub
Mass of bearing hub	3708.65 g	BearingHubMass
Rotational losses (Calculated)	10.8305 W	Prot

Costs, Mass and Volume
Property	Value	Variable name
Total generator cost	315.802 EUR	Totalcost
Total generator mass	7.62369 kgr	TotalMass
Total generator volume	1.13888 dm3	TotalVolume
Blade rotor mass	0.412897 kgr	blade_rotor_mass
Softwood density	500 kgr/m³	softwood_density
Cost of magnets	238.62 EUR	Magcost
Magnet shipping cost	16.742 EUR	shippingcost
Copper mass	1.04841 kgr	mcu
Cost of copper	15.4745 EUR	coppercost
Resin mass	2.0062 kgr	resinmass
Cost of resin	27.7115 EUR	resincost
Resin volume	1475.15 cm3	ResinVolume
Total mass of one generator rotor	2.28453 kgr	TotalMassRotor
Cost of iron	3.06234 EUR	ironcost
Surface area of moulds	0.195288 m2	woodS
Total cost of moulds	30.9337 EUR	woodcost

Output files

Octave/Matlab variable file:

simulation-6322.mat

Input parameters

Blade Rotor Inputs

Turbine radius:

0.60m

Aerodynamic coefficient:

0.30

Cut-in wind speed:

3.00m/s

Nominal wind speed:

15.00m/s

Cut-in TSR:

8.75

Design TSR:

7.00

Air density:

1.222kg/m³

Generator Rotor Inputs

AFPM rotor topology:

Single Rotor with metal disk

Magnetic material:

NdFeB N52

Number of generator poles:

Magnet length:

38mm

Magnet width:

38mm

Magnet thickness:

12mm

Rotor disk thickness:

User Defined

Rotor disk thickness:

10mm

Mechanical clearance:

3.00mm

Generator Stator Inputs

Select coil type:

Keyhole

Winding fill factor:

User defined

Winding fill factor:

0.55

Current density:

6.00A/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:

true

Simulation step:

Current step:

RPM Step:

Mesh size:

Automesh

Constants

Copper resistivity:

1.678E-8 Ω·m

Copper density:

8.94g/cm³

Iron density:

7.87g/cm³

Resin density:

1.36g/cm³