Study effect of extreme wind direction change on 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine

The Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWT) are used very popular in the world. They were installed mainly on land. However, on the land, the wind regime change is very complex such as high turbulence and constantly changing wind direction. In the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61400-1...

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Main Authors: Le Quang Sang, Takao Maeda, Yasunari Kamada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Diponegoro University 2019-10-01
Series:International Journal of Renewable Energy Development
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Online Access:https://ejournal.undip.ac.id/index.php/ijred/article/view/24453
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spelling doaj-2c6fd79b79fa41ffb360ade65b5e20942021-01-02T14:19:47ZengDiponegoro UniversityInternational Journal of Renewable Energy Development2252-49402019-10-018326126610.14710/ijred.8.3.261-26615616Study effect of extreme wind direction change on 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbineLe Quang Sang0Takao Maeda1Yasunari Kamada2Institute of Energy Science - Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Ha NoiDivision of Mechanical Engineering, Mie University, 1577 Kurimamachiya-cho, Tsu, Mie 514-8507Division of Mechanical Engineering, Mie University, 1577 Kurimamachiya-cho, Tsu, Mie 514-8507The Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWT) are used very popular in the world. They were installed mainly on land. However, on the land, the wind regime change is very complex such as high turbulence and constantly changing wind direction. In the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61400-1 standard, the wind regime is devided into the normal wind conditions and the extreme wind conditions. This study will focus on the extreme wind direction change and estimate the aerodynamic forces acting on a 3-bladed HAWT under this condition. Because the extreme wind direction change may cause extreme loads and it will affect the lifetime of HAWTs. This issue is experimented in the wind tunnel in Mie University, Japan to understand these effects. The wind turbine model is the 3-bladed HAWT type and using Avistar airfoil for making blades. A 6-component balance is used to measure the forces and the moments acting on the entire wind turbine in the three directions of x, y and z-axes. This study estimates the load fluctuation of the 3-bladed wind turbine under extreme wind direction change. The results show that the yaw moment and the pitch moment under the extreme wind direction change fluctuate larger than the normal wind condition. Specifically, before the sudden wind direction change happened, the averaged maximum pitch moment MX is -1.78 Nm, and after that MX is 4.45 Nm at inrush azimuth of 0°.©2019. CBIORE-IJRED. All rights reservedhttps://ejournal.undip.ac.id/index.php/ijred/article/view/24453Wind tunnelExtreme wind direction changeLoad3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbineExperiment.
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Takao Maeda
Yasunari Kamada
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Takao Maeda
Yasunari Kamada
Study effect of extreme wind direction change on 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine
International Journal of Renewable Energy Development
Wind tunnel
Extreme wind direction change
Load
3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine
Experiment.
author_facet Le Quang Sang
Takao Maeda
Yasunari Kamada
author_sort Le Quang Sang
title Study effect of extreme wind direction change on 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine
title_short Study effect of extreme wind direction change on 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine
title_full Study effect of extreme wind direction change on 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine
title_fullStr Study effect of extreme wind direction change on 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine
title_full_unstemmed Study effect of extreme wind direction change on 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine
title_sort study effect of extreme wind direction change on 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine
publisher Diponegoro University
series International Journal of Renewable Energy Development
issn 2252-4940
publishDate 2019-10-01
description The Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWT) are used very popular in the world. They were installed mainly on land. However, on the land, the wind regime change is very complex such as high turbulence and constantly changing wind direction. In the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61400-1 standard, the wind regime is devided into the normal wind conditions and the extreme wind conditions. This study will focus on the extreme wind direction change and estimate the aerodynamic forces acting on a 3-bladed HAWT under this condition. Because the extreme wind direction change may cause extreme loads and it will affect the lifetime of HAWTs. This issue is experimented in the wind tunnel in Mie University, Japan to understand these effects. The wind turbine model is the 3-bladed HAWT type and using Avistar airfoil for making blades. A 6-component balance is used to measure the forces and the moments acting on the entire wind turbine in the three directions of x, y and z-axes. This study estimates the load fluctuation of the 3-bladed wind turbine under extreme wind direction change. The results show that the yaw moment and the pitch moment under the extreme wind direction change fluctuate larger than the normal wind condition. Specifically, before the sudden wind direction change happened, the averaged maximum pitch moment MX is -1.78 Nm, and after that MX is 4.45 Nm at inrush azimuth of 0°.©2019. CBIORE-IJRED. All rights reserved
topic Wind tunnel
Extreme wind direction change
Load
3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine
Experiment.
url https://ejournal.undip.ac.id/index.php/ijred/article/view/24453
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