Machine CEE | Online Design Tools for Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines

Submitted by rdelpoux on Mon, 11/11/2024 - 16:51

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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)	736.16 RPM	n_nom
Nominal tip speed ratio	4.62308	tsr_nom

Generator Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Rotor disk thickness	10 mm	hr
Magnet width-to-pole pitch ratio	0.516894	ai
Inner-to-outer magnet radius	0.525272	kd
Flux density in airgap	0.255707 T	Bmax
Flux density on magnet surface	0.446345 T	Bmg
First harmonic of flux density in airgap	0.215325 T	Bp
Flux per pole (Calculated)	0.000629966 Wb	Flux_pole
Magnets on a rotor disk	8	magnet_num
Distance between magnets	9.9748 mm	dist_magnet_Rin
Magnet mass	1656 g	MagnetMass
Magnet density	7.5 g/cm3	mag_density
Volume of a single magnet	13800 mm3	Vmag
Volume of all magnets	220800 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	196.103 mm	Dout
Average radius	73.8975 mm	Ravg
Inner radius	50.8975 mm	Rin
Outer radius	98.0517 mm	Rout
Effective outer radius	96.8975 mm	Rout_eff
Mass of rotor disks	2.37703 kgr	BackIronMass
Volume of rotor disks	302.037 cm3	BackIronVolume
Maximum flux density in the magnet rotor disk	0.84793 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	2	q
Total number of coils in stator	6	coil_num
Number of turns per coil	130	Nc
Copper wire diameter	0.9 mm	dc
Number of wires at hand	1	No_wires_at_hand
Winding fill factor	0.55	kf
Copper wire cross-sectional area	0.64 mm2	sc
Copper wire cross-sectional area (Calculated)	0.626205 mm²	sc_theor
Copper wire cross-sectional area of a sinlge wire	0.64 mm²	sc_multi_wires
Copper wire diameter (Calculated)	0.893148 mm	dc_theor
Coil leg width	11.6364 mm	wc
Average length of coil turn	188.538 mm	lavg
Stator nominal temperature	69.9463 C°	tc_real
Stator surface area	263.268 cm²	stator_surface_area
Heat coefficient	0.246984	cq_real
Current density	5.87067 A	Jmax_real
Resistivity of copper at nominal temperature	2.00455E-8 Ohm.m	pt
Resistance of a single coil	0.767678 Ohm	Rc
Phase resistance	1.53536 Ohm	Rphase
Phase inductance	0.00233778 H	Ls
Nagaoka constant	0.252948	Kn
Winding coefficient	0.507393	kw
Volume of a single coil	28520.7 mm3	coil_volume
Weight of a single coil	142.394 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	0.996756 kgr	mcu_constr
EMF at the cut-in wind speed (Calculated)	10.264 V	EMF_cut_in
EMF at the nominal wind speed (Calculated)	18.1118 V	EMF_nom
Current at the nominal wind speed	3.75723 A	Iac_nom
Terminal voltage at the nominal wind speed	11.2904 V	V_term_line
Nominal frequency	49.0773 Hz	fnom
Generator power (Calculated)	127.262 W	Pnom
Copper losses (Calculated)	65.0228 W	Pcopper
Eddy current losses (Calculated)	0.492991 W	Peddy
Generator efficiency (Calculated)	0.621445	efficiency_real
AC Power at the rectifier (Calculated)	114.536 W	Pnom_rect
DC Power at the batteries (Calculated)	103.082 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)	12.0061 W	Prot

Costs, Mass and Volume
Property	Value	Variable name
Total generator cost	225.307 EUR	Totalcost
Total generator mass	6.12514 kgr	TotalMass
Total generator volume	1.08733 dm3	TotalVolume
Blade rotor mass	0.412897 kgr	blade_rotor_mass
Softwood density	500 kgr/m³	softwood_density
Cost of magnets	153.703 EUR	Magcost
Magnet shipping cost	13.3333 EUR	shippingcost
Copper mass	0.841417 kgr	mcu
Cost of copper	12.4193 EUR	coppercost
Resin mass	1.25069 kgr	resinmass
Cost of resin	17.2756 EUR	resincost
Resin volume	919.624 cm3	ResinVolume
Total mass of one generator rotor	4.03303 kgr	TotalMassRotor
Cost of iron	2.92375 EUR	ironcost
Surface area of moulds	0.246118 m2	woodS
Total cost of moulds	38.9852 EUR	woodcost

Output files

Octave/Matlab variable file:

simulation-9539.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:

8.75

Design TSR:

7.00

Air density:

1.204kg/m³

Generator Rotor Inputs

AFPM rotor topology:

Single Rotor

Magnetic material:

NdFeB N40

Number of generator poles:

Magnet length:

46mm

Magnet width:

30mm

Magnet thickness:

10mm

Rotor disk thickness:

Calculated

Mechanical clearance:

3.00mm

Generator Stator Inputs

Select coil type:

Rectangular

Winding fill factor:

User defined

Winding fill factor:

0.55

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