Wind Power Siting

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Wind Power Siting

• Dominic DiMarco Nicole Howard Tiana
  Miller-Jackson
• Rene Rivas Yacob Teklu

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Outline

• Introduction
• Background Information
• Rotor Anemometer
• Calibration
• Experiments
• Results
• Conclusions
• What We Learned

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Introduction

• Wind siting is the art of siting wind.
• People wind site to find the best place to make
  electricity from wind.
• We use anemometers to find this out.

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Background Information

• Turbine placement factors
• Location
• Wind Speed
• Consistency
• Wind Direction
• Aesthetics
• Anemometers
• Hot wire
• Ultrasonic
• Pressure
• Rotor
• Laser Doppler

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Rotor Anemometer

• Aerodynamic
• Uses Drag
• Cone or Cup Shape
• Bernoulli's Principle
• Directly Proportional
• Simple, Small, and Cheap

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Home Built Anemometer

• Easter Egg Cups
• Styrofoam Hub
• Electric Motor (Generator)
• T-pins
• Measured voltage output from motor.

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Calibration

• Steps
• Selected a speed and location.
• Measured the voltage.
• Measured actual wind speed.
• Calculated the formulas.
• Checked our calibration (worked backwards)

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Experiments

• Variables
• Distance from the Fan
• Fan Speed
• Output
• Wind speed from constructed
• Wind speed from manufactured
• Percent Error

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Results Conclusions

• Trial 1
• Calculated Wind Speed
• Actual Wind Speed

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Results Conclusions

• Trial 2
• Calculated Wind Speed
• Actual Wind Speed
• Percent Error

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What We Learned

• Anemometers measure wind speed.
• Wind can create electricity
• Wind is a renewable source of energy.
• The factors of turbine placement.
• Different kinds of Anemometers.
• How to calibrate wind speed.
• The further away the wind source the lower the
  wind speed.

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Thank You!

• Success Institute Summer 2004.
• Wind Energy Group!