Clone of Clone of Clone of Propel-E 450 LS NEO | Online Design Tools for Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines

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Results

Blade Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
RPM at the cut-in wind speed (TSR)	19.1083 RPM	n_cut_in
RPM at the nominal wind speed (TSR)	65.8878 RPM	n_nom
Nominal tip speed ratio	0.689625	tsr_nom

Generator Rotor Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Rotor disk thickness	10 mm	hr
Magnet width-to-pole pitch ratio	0.727536	ai
Inner-to-outer magnet radius	0.750009	kd
Flux density in airgap	0.792758 T	Bmax
Flux density on magnet surface	0.814591 T	Bmg
First harmonic of flux density in airgap	0.795842 T	Bp
Flux per pole (Calculated)	0.00206751 Wb	Flux_pole
Magnets on a rotor disk	16	magnet_num
Distance between magnets	8.9076 mm	dist_magnet_Rin
Magnet mass	15000 g	MagnetMass
Magnet density	7.5 g/cm3	mag_density
Volume of a single magnet	62500 mm3	Vmag
Volume of all magnets	2000000 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	403.127 mm	Dout
Average radius	175.007 mm	Ravg
Inner radius	150.007 mm	Rin
Outer radius	201.563 mm	Rout
Effective outer radius	200.007 mm	Rout_eff
Mass of rotor disks	20.0899 kgr	BackIronMass
Volume of rotor disks	2552.72 cm3	BackIronVolume
Maximum flux density in the magnet rotor disk	2.58086 T	SaturMAX
Is the magnet rotor disk saturated?	Yes	Saturation

Generator Stator Outputs
Property	Value	Variable name
Stator thickness	18 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	481	Nc
Copper wire diameter	0.71 mm	dc
Number of wires at hand	1	No_wires_at_hand
Winding fill factor	0.75	kf
Copper wire cross-sectional area	0.4 mm2	sc
Copper wire cross-sectional area (Calculated)	0.213703 mm²	sc_theor
Copper wire cross-sectional area of a sinlge wire	0.4 mm²	sc_multi_wires
Copper wire diameter (Calculated)	0.521759 mm	dc_theor
Coil leg width	14.2519 mm	wc
Average length of coil turn	244.751 mm	lavg
Stator nominal temperature	44.7356 C°	tc_real
Stator surface area	837.157 cm²	stator_surface_area
Heat coefficient	0.128292	cq_real
Current density	3.20554 A	Jmax_real
Resistivity of copper at nominal temperature	1.84966E-8 Ohm.m	pt
Resistance of a single coil	5.4438 Ohm	Rc
Phase resistance	21.7752 Ohm	Rphase
Phase inductance	0.0825728 H	Ls
Nagaoka constant	0.268109	Kn
Winding coefficient	0.95	kw
Volume of a single coil	62786.7 mm3	coil_volume
Weight of a single coil	422.736 g	coil_weight_constr
Coil hole at Ravg	50 mm	coil_hole_Ravg
Coil hole at Rin	50 mm	coil_hole_Rin_constr
Coil hole at Rout	50 mm	coil_hole_Rout_constr
Coil mass for construction	5.49556 kgr	mcu_constr
EMF at the cut-in wind speed (Calculated)	42.7667 V	EMF_cut_in
EMF at the nominal wind speed (Calculated)	147.423 V	EMF_nom
Current at the nominal wind speed	1.28222 A	Iac_nom
Terminal voltage at the nominal wind speed	117.608 V	V_term_line
Nominal frequency	8.78503 Hz	fnom
Generator power (Calculated)	452.398 W	Pnom
Copper losses (Calculated)	107.4 W	Pcopper
Eddy current losses (Calculated)	0.219071 W	Peddy
Generator efficiency (Calculated)	0.800163	efficiency_real
AC Power at the rectifier (Calculated)	407.158 W	Pnom_rect
DC Power at the batteries (Calculated)	366.443 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)	5.3646 W	Prot

Costs, Mass and Volume
Property	Value	Variable name
Total generator cost	1590.12 EUR	Totalcost
Total generator mass	42.8646 kgr	TotalMass
Total generator volume	11.8702 dm3	TotalVolume
Blade rotor mass	1.91156 kgr	blade_rotor_mass
Softwood density	500 kgr/m³	softwood_density
Cost of magnets	1374.92 EUR	Magcost
Magnet shipping cost	120.773 EUR	shippingcost
Copper mass	5.05182 kgr	mcu
Cost of copper	74.5649 EUR	coppercost
Resin mass	2.72285 kgr	resinmass
Cost of resin	37.6104 EUR	resincost
Resin volume	2002.09 cm3	ResinVolume
Total mass of one generator rotor	17.545 kgr	TotalMassRotor
Cost of iron	24.7106 EUR	ironcost
Surface area of moulds	0.494387 m2	woodS
Total cost of moulds	78.311 EUR	woodcost

Output files

Octave/Matlab variable file:

simulation-9854.mat

Input parameters

Blade Rotor Inputs

Turbine radius:

1.00m

Aerodynamic coefficient:

0.30

Cut-in wind speed:

2.00m/s

Nominal wind speed:

10.00m/s

Cut-in TSR:

1.00

Design TSR:

2.00

Air density:

1.204kg/m³

Generator Rotor Inputs

AFPM rotor topology:

Double Rotor

Magnetic material:

NdFeB N42

Number of generator poles:

Magnet length:

50mm

Magnet width:

50mm

Magnet thickness:

25mm

Rotor disk thickness:

User Defined

Rotor disk thickness:

10mm

Mechanical clearance:

2.50mm

Generator Stator Inputs

Select coil type:

Rectangular

Winding fill factor:

User defined

Winding fill factor:

0.75

Stator thickness:

Calculated

Current density:

6.00A/mm2

System Inputs

System voltage:

100.00V

Nominal voltage:

250.00V

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