4.2m diameter N42 16 pole | Online Design Tools for Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines

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Blade Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
RPM at the cut-in wind speed (TSR)	119.427 RPM	n_cut_in
RPM at the nominal wind speed (TSR)	202.794 RPM	n_nom
Nominal tip speed ratio	4.45741	tsr_nom

Generator Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Rotor disk thickness	10 mm	hr
Magnet width-to-pole pitch ratio	0.292908	ai
Inner-to-outer magnet radius	0.837922	kd
Flux density in airgap	0.59196 T	Bmax
Flux density on magnet surface	0.661078 T	Bmg
First harmonic of flux density in airgap	0.330098 T	Bp
Flux per pole (Calculated)	0.000914372 Wb	Flux_pole
Magnets on a rotor disk	16	magnet_num
Distance between magnets	63.3893 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	1.3 T	Br
Magnetic coercivity	1006580 A/m	Hc
Maximum Energy Product	342 KJ/m³	BHmax
Outer diameter	568.42 mm	Dout
Average radius	260.814 mm	Ravg
Inner radius	237.814 mm	Rin
Outer radius	284.21 mm	Rout
Effective outer radius	283.814 mm	Rout_eff
Mass of rotor disks	39.9423 kgr	BackIronMass
Volume of rotor disks	5075.26 cm3	BackIronVolume
Maximum flux density in the magnet rotor disk	1.13791 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	42	Nc
Copper wire diameter	1.6 mm	dc
Number of wires at hand	4	No_wires_at_hand
Winding fill factor	0.55	kf
Copper wire cross-sectional area	8.04 mm2	sc
Copper wire cross-sectional area (Calculated)	7.92901 mm²	sc_theor
Copper wire cross-sectional area of a sinlge wire	2.01 mm²	sc_multi_wires
Copper wire diameter (Calculated)	3.17815 mm	dc_theor
Coil leg width	47.228 mm	wc
Average length of coil turn	300.296 mm	lavg
Stator nominal temperature	70.8203 C°	tc_real
Stator surface area	3403.77 cm²	stator_surface_area
Heat coefficient	0.250631	cq_real
Current density	5.91717 A	Jmax_real
Resistivity of copper at nominal temperature	2.00231E-8 Ohm.m	pt
Resistance of a single coil	0.0314104 Ohm	Rc
Phase resistance	0.125642 Ohm	Rphase
Phase inductance	0.000637591 H	Ls
Nagaoka constant	0.130265	Kn
Winding coefficient	0.95	kw
Volume of a single coil	184371 mm3	coil_volume
Weight of a single coil	949.72 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	12.3464 kgr	mcu_constr
EMF at the cut-in wind speed (Calculated)	10.264 V	EMF_cut_in
EMF at the nominal wind speed (Calculated)	17.5224 V	EMF_nom
Current at the nominal wind speed	47.5741 A	Iac_nom
Terminal voltage at the nominal wind speed	11.2904 V	V_term_line
Nominal frequency	27.0392 Hz	fnom
Generator power (Calculated)	1611.39 W	Pnom
Copper losses (Calculated)	853.091 W	Pcopper
Eddy current losses (Calculated)	36.4745 W	Peddy
Generator efficiency (Calculated)	0.637149	efficiency_real
AC Power at the rectifier (Calculated)	1450.25 W	Pnom_rect
DC Power at the batteries (Calculated)	1305.23 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)	28.108 W	Prot

Costs, Mass and Volume
Property	Value	Variable name
Total generator cost	713.366 EUR	Totalcost
Total generator mass	59.0025 kgr	TotalMass
Total generator volume	14.972 dm3	TotalVolume
Blade rotor mass	17.7029 kgr	blade_rotor_mass
Softwood density	500 kgr/m³	softwood_density
Cost of magnets	316.948 EUR	Magcost
Magnet shipping cost	26.6667 EUR	shippingcost
Copper mass	10.8786 kgr	mcu
Cost of copper	160.568 EUR	coppercost
Resin mass	4.86952 kgr	resinmass
Cost of resin	67.2622 EUR	resincost
Resin volume	3580.53 cm3	ResinVolume
Total mass of one generator rotor	21.6272 kgr	TotalMassRotor
Cost of iron	49.1291 EUR	ironcost
Surface area of moulds	0.754153 m2	woodS
Total cost of moulds	119.458 EUR	woodcost

Output files

Octave/Matlab variable file:

simulation-9219.mat

Input parameters

Blade Rotor Inputs

Turbine radius:

2.10m

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 N42

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:

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:

false

Constants

Copper resistivity:

1.678E-8 Ω·m

Copper density:

8.94g/cm³

Iron density:

7.87g/cm³

Resin density:

1.36g/cm³