pma | Online Design Tools for Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines

Submitted by AHMEDNA8 on Sat, 30/05/2020 - 21:43

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Results

Blade Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
RPM at the cut-in wind speed (TSR)	208.997 RPM	n_cut_in
RPM at the nominal wind speed (TSR)	271.53 RPM	n_nom
Nominal tip speed ratio	4.87203	tsr_nom

Generator Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Rotor disk thickness	10 mm	hr
Magnet width-to-pole pitch ratio	1.15649	ai
Inner-to-outer magnet radius	0.623215	kd
Flux density in airgap	0.54 T	Bmax
Flux density on magnet surface	0.62 T	Bmg
First harmonic of flux density in airgap	0.4 T	Bp
Flux per pole (Calculated)	0.0008556 Wb	Flux_pole
Magnets on a rotor disk	24	magnet_num
Distance between magnets	-10.0808 mm	dist_magnet_Rin
Magnet mass	4968 g	MagnetMass
Magnet density	7.5 g/cm3	mag_density
Volume of a single magnet	13800 mm3	Vmag
Volume of all magnets	662400 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	246.007 mm	Dout
Average radius	99.0856 mm	Ravg
Inner radius	76.0856 mm	Rin
Outer radius	123.004 mm	Rout
Effective outer radius	122.086 mm	Rout_eff
Mass of rotor disks	7.48153 kgr	BackIronMass
Volume of rotor disks	950.639 cm3	BackIronVolume

Generator Stator Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Stator thickness	13 mm	tw
Number of phases	3	nphase
Number of coils per phase	6	q
Total number of coils in stator	18	coil_num
Number of turns per coil	6	Nc
Copper wire diameter	1.7 mm	dc
Number of wires at hand	1	No_wires_at_hand
Winding fill factor	0.52	kf
Copper wire cross-sectional area	2.27 mm2	sc
Copper wire cross-sectional area (Calculated)	2.24363 mm²	sc_theor
Copper wire cross-sectional area of a sinlge wire	2.27 mm²	sc_multi_wires
Copper wire diameter (Calculated)	1.6906 mm	dc_theor
Coil leg width	2.03494 mm	wc
Average length of coil turn	145.239 mm	lavg
Stator nominal temperature	69.7566 C°	tc_real
Stator surface area	106.399 cm²	stator_surface_area
Heat coefficient	0.246189	cq_real
Current density	5.9303 A	Jmax_real
Resistivity of copper at nominal temperature	2.09179E-8 Ohm.m	pt
Resistance of a single coil	0.00803024 Ohm	Rc
Phase resistance	0.0481815 Ohm	Rphase
Phase inductance	1.26992E-5 H	Ls
Nagaoka constant	0.362323	Kn
Winding coefficient	0.95	kw
Volume of a single coil	3842.2 mm3	coil_volume
Weight of a single coil	23.5797 g	coil_weight_constr
Coil hole at Ravg	30 mm	coil_hole_Ravg
Coil hole at Rin	21.9126 mm	coil_hole_Rin_constr
Coil hole at Rout	37.8923 mm	coil_hole_Rout_constr
Coil mass for construction	0.448014 kgr	mcu_constr
EMF at the cut-in wind speed (Calculated)	5.132 V	EMF_cut_in
EMF at the nominal wind speed (Calculated)	7.0565 V	EMF_nom
Current at the nominal wind speed	13.4618 A	Iac_nom
Terminal voltage at the nominal wind speed	5.6452 V	V_term_line
Nominal frequency	54.306 Hz	fnom
Generator power (Calculated)	227.984 W	Pnom
Copper losses (Calculated)	26.1943 W	Pcopper
Eddy current losses (Calculated)	3.54815 W	Peddy
Generator efficiency (Calculated)	0.849751	efficiency_real
AC Power at the rectifier (Calculated)	205.185 W	Pnom_rect
DC Power at the batteries (Calculated)	184.667 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)	10.5687 W	Prot

Costs, Mass and Volume
Property	Value	Variable name
Total generator cost	648.128 EUR	Totalcost
Total generator mass	13.9519 kgr	TotalMass
Total generator volume	2.61426 dm3	TotalVolume
Blade rotor mass	3.30317 kgr	blade_rotor_mass
Softwood density	500 kgr/m³	softwood_density
Cost of magnets	570.649 EUR	Magcost
Magnet shipping cost	40 EUR	shippingcost
Copper mass	0.318326 kgr	mcu
Cost of copper	4.69849 EUR	coppercost
Resin mass	1.18408 kgr	resinmass
Cost of resin	16.3555 EUR	resincost
Resin volume	870.645 cm3	ResinVolume
Total mass of one generator rotor	6.22477 kgr	TotalMassRotor
Cost of iron	9.20228 EUR	ironcost
Surface area of moulds	0.298124 m2	woodS
Total cost of moulds	47.2228 EUR	woodcost

Output files

Octave/Matlab variable file:

simulation-6400.mat

Input parameters

Blade Rotor Inputs

Turbine radius:

1.20m

Aerodynamic coefficient:

0.30

Cut-in wind speed:

3.00m/s

Nominal wind speed:

7.00m/s

Cut-in TSR:

8.75

Design TSR:

7.00

Air density:

1.225kg/m³

Generator Rotor Inputs

AFPM rotor topology:

Double Rotor

Magnetic material:

NdFeB N52

Number of generator poles:

Magnet length:

46mm

Magnet width:

30mm

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:

6.00A/mm2

System Inputs

System voltage:

12.00V

Nominal voltage:

12.00V

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