Wind Resource Assessment and Wind Power Potential for the City of Khaf, Iran

Omid Alavi

Abstract


Development of renewable energies is a major issue in today's society. One of the best renewable energies is wind energy and we can obtain the energy from wind turbines. In this study, we measured wind speed data for 10 m, 30 m and 40 m heights for the city of Khaf in Razavi Khorasan province. Wind power generation has been analyzed by wind speed and wind direction data. We used Weibull distribution function for determining the wind power energy and density. Yearly and monthly mean Weibull parameters, k and c has been calculated. Yearly parameters were k=1.659 and c=11.156. In order to utilize wind energy, we considered Vestas V80 2MW for installing in this location. The simulation and calculation have been done by WindPower software.


Keywords


Wind potential; Weibull distribution; Razavi Khorasan; Wind rose

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