The paper presents a mathematical model of small wind turbines with a focus on the power flow from wind to electricity. Thus, a tool for supporting the designing process is developed which allows a reliable estimation of energy yield and profitability. As a very interesting result it was found out that for practical applications the energy yield estimation simply based on Rayleigh-distributed wind speeds is much too optimistic. Furthermore it is shown what kind of improvement can be achieved by integrating a temporary energy storage, especially when small wind turbines are being used off-grid.
Mathematical model of small wind turbines
2014-03-01
398770 byte
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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