Practise 5 | Online Design Tools for Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines

Submitted by morganmccaughey on Tue, 02/03/2021 - 15:43

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00:00:50

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Results

Blade Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
RPM at the cut-in wind speed (TSR)	286.624 RPM	n_cut_in
RPM at the nominal wind speed (TSR)	1493.02 RPM	n_nom
Nominal tip speed ratio	9.37615	tsr_nom

Generator Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Rotor disk thickness	15 mm	hr
Magnet width-to-pole pitch ratio	0.211739	ai
Inner-to-outer magnet radius	0.846467	kd
Flux density in airgap	0.152254 T	Bmax
Flux density on magnet surface	0.511762 T	Bmg
First harmonic of flux density in airgap	0.110515 T	Bp
Flux per pole (Calculated)	5.14388E-5 Wb	Flux_pole
Magnets on a rotor disk	8	magnet_num
Distance between magnets	33.3009 mm	dist_magnet_Rin
Magnet mass	60 g	MagnetMass
Magnet density	7.5 g/cm3	mag_density
Volume of a single magnet	500 mm3	Vmag
Volume of all magnets	8000 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	130.648 mm	Dout
Average radius	60.1324 mm	Ravg
Inner radius	55.1324 mm	Rin
Outer radius	65.3241 mm	Rout
Effective outer radius	65.1324 mm	Rout_eff
Mass of rotor disks	3.16513 kgr	BackIronMass
Volume of rotor disks	402.177 cm3	BackIronVolume
Maximum flux density in the magnet rotor disk	0.17964 T	SaturMAX
Is the magnet rotor disk saturated?	No	Saturation

Generator Stator Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Stator thickness	20 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	309	Nc
Copper wire diameter	1.06 mm	dc
Number of wires at hand	1	No_wires_at_hand
Winding fill factor	0.57	kf
Copper wire cross-sectional area	0.88 mm2	sc
Copper wire cross-sectional area (Calculated)	0.849682 mm²	sc_theor
Copper wire cross-sectional area of a sinlge wire	0.88 mm²	sc_multi_wires
Copper wire diameter (Calculated)	1.04038 mm	dc_theor
Coil leg width	23.8526 mm	wc
Average length of coil turn	114.897 mm	lavg
Stator nominal temperature	123.379 C°	tc_real
Stator surface area	328.872 cm²	stator_surface_area
Heat coefficient	0.437108	cq_real
Current density	5.79329 A	Jmax_real
Resistivity of copper at nominal temperature	2.28488E-8 Ohm.m	pt
Resistance of a single coil	0.921827 Ohm	Rc
Phase resistance	1.84365 Ohm	Rphase
Phase inductance	0.00388785 H	Ls
Nagaoka constant	0.308442	Kn
Winding coefficient	0.95	kw
Volume of a single coil	54812 mm3	coil_volume
Weight of a single coil	281.119 g	coil_weight_constr
Coil hole at Ravg	10 mm	coil_hole_Ravg
Coil hole at Rin	10 mm	coil_hole_Rin_constr
Coil hole at Rout	10 mm	coil_hole_Rout_constr
Coil mass for construction	1.96783 kgr	mcu_constr
EMF at the cut-in wind speed (Calculated)	2.566 V	EMF_cut_in
EMF at the nominal wind speed (Calculated)	13.3481 V	EMF_nom
Current at the nominal wind speed	5.09809 A	Iac_nom
Terminal voltage at the nominal wind speed	2.8226 V	V_term_line
Nominal frequency	99.5345 Hz	fnom
Generator power (Calculated)	43.1696 W	Pnom
Copper losses (Calculated)	143.753 W	Pcopper
Eddy current losses (Calculated)	0.445827 W	Peddy
Generator efficiency (Calculated)	0.206252	efficiency_real
AC Power at the rectifier (Calculated)	38.8527 W	Pnom_rect
DC Power at the batteries (Calculated)	34.9674 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)	21.9375 W	Prot

Costs, Mass and Volume
Property	Value	Variable name
Total generator cost	84.1719 EUR	Totalcost
Total generator mass	5.834 kgr	TotalMass
Total generator volume	0.88479 dm3	TotalVolume
Blade rotor mass	0.412897 kgr	blade_rotor_mass
Softwood density	500 kgr/m³	softwood_density
Cost of magnets	13.2791 EUR	Magcost
Magnet shipping cost	0.483092 EUR	shippingcost
Copper mass	1.67587 kgr	mcu
Cost of copper	24.7358 EUR	coppercost
Resin mass	0.932998 kgr	resinmass
Cost of resin	12.8874 EUR	resincost
Resin volume	686.028 cm3	ResinVolume
Total mass of one generator rotor	1.61257 kgr	TotalMassRotor
Cost of iron	3.89311 EUR	ironcost
Surface area of moulds	0.185458 m2	woodS
Total cost of moulds	29.3765 EUR	woodcost

Output files

Octave/Matlab variable file:

simulation-6921.mat

Input parameters

Blade Rotor Inputs

Turbine radius:

0.60m

Aerodynamic coefficient:

0.30

Cut-in wind speed:

3.00m/s

Nominal wind speed:

10.00m/s

Cut-in TSR:

6.00

Design TSR:

6.00

Air density:

1.204kg/m³

Generator Rotor Inputs

AFPM rotor topology:

Double Rotor

Magnetic material:

NdFeB N40

Number of generator poles:

Magnet length:

10mm

Magnet width:

10mm

Magnet thickness:

5mm

Rotor disk thickness:

User Defined

Rotor disk thickness:

15mm

Mechanical clearance:

3.00mm

Generator Stator Inputs

Select coil type:

Rectangular

Winding fill factor:

Calculated

Stator thickness:

User defined

Stator thickness:

20mm

Current density:

6.00A/mm2

System Inputs

System voltage:

6.00V

Nominal voltage:

6.00V

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