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Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science MECE3260U-Introduction to Energy Systems Wind Energy Systems Dr. Ibrahim Dincer Professor of Mechanical Engineering...

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science MECE3260U-Introduction to Energy Systems Wind Energy Systems Dr. Ibrahim Dincer Professor of Mechanical Engineering 1  Outline  Introduction  Wind patterns  History  Global wind power, capacities and market sizes  Classification of wind turbines  Advantages and disadvantages  Analysis  Case study  Closing remarks 2  Introduction Why Wind Power?  Renewable  Environmentally benign and sustainable  Efficient  Cost effective  Commercially viable  Availability in multiple capacities  Reliable  Availability of onshore and offshore options  Diverse applications 3 What Makes Wind? & Global Wind Patterns The NEED Project (www.need.org) 4  History of Wind Energy 5000 BC 500-900 AD 1300 AD 1850s Late 1880s Sailboats used on First windmills First horizontal- Daniel Halladay and Thomas O. Perry the Nile indicate developed in axis John Burnham build conducted 5,000 the power of wind Persia windmills in Halladay Windmill; wind experiments; Europe start US Wind starts Aermotor Engine Company Company 1888 Early 1900s 1941 1979 Charles F. Brush Windmills in CA In VT, Grandpa’s First wind turbine used windmill to pumped saltwater Knob turbine rated over 1 MW generate electricity to evaporate ponds supplies power to began operating in Cleveland, OH town during WWII 1985 1993 2004 2013 CA wind capacity US WindPower developed Electricity from wind Wind power provided exceeded 1,000 MW first commercial variable-speed generation costs over 17% of renewable wind turbine 3 to 4.5 cents per kWh energy used in US The NEED Project (www.need.org) 5 Cumulative installed capacity of wind power worldwide in 2022, by country (in megawatts) 6 See Gridwatch Ontario https://live.gridwatch.ca/home-page.html 7  Purpose of generation Demand (need) Location and wind potential (velocities) Site Selection Characteristics Distance of transmission and distribution networks Topography Means of access 8  General Classification of Wind Turbines Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine Aerodynamic Systems Cp-max ~0.44 Vertical Axis Horizontal Axis Drag Systems Darrieus Cp-max ~0.2 1 Savonius 2 3 Drag w/ Windbreak ‘H’ Rotor Norman Horn and Tony VanderHeyden (2014) 9 Modern Wind Turbines Turbines can be categorized into two classes based on the orientation of the rotor. The NEED Project (www.need.org) www.cs.cmu.edu/~jgc 10 Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines Small (