Assignment on Capacity Factor

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Assignment on Capacity Factor

Added on 2021-02-21

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Preliminary Investigationof Building a Wind Farmin SA

ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................11. ANNUAL DISCRETE WIND SPEED CALCULATION WITH HISTOGRAM ANDPROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION........................................................................................1Annual average wind speed.........................................................................................................1Annual average wind speed histogram........................................................................................2Wind speed probability density function histogram....................................................................22. IDENTIFYING VALUE OF SCALE PARAMATER AND COMPARING PROBABILITYDENSITY FUNCTION UNDER RAYLEIGH STATISTICS & ACTUAL RESULTS................3Determining the value of the scale parameter.............................................................................33. IDENTIFYING ANNUAL ENERGY AND CAPACITY FACTOR WHICH CAN BEDELIVERED BY TURBINE..........................................................................................................4Annual energy..............................................................................................................................4Capacity factor.............................................................................................................................64. CAPACITY FACTOR, ANNUAL ENERGY AND ERROR IN PERCENTAGE....................6Capacity factor.............................................................................................................................6Annual energy that can be delivered by turbine..........................................................................6Error percentage between two methods.......................................................................................65. TOTAL ANNUAL ENERGY.....................................................................................................76. CALCULATION OF CRF and LCoE.........................................................................................77. CALCULATION OF HOURS WITHOUT PRODUCING POWER.........................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTIONWind farm is a land of area where multiple energy producing wind mills or turbines aresituated in order to produce energy or electricity (Modi and Yan, 2016). Building a wind farm isa complex procedure which requires multiple sets of operations; most importantly, conducting apreliminary investigation (Saddler, 2017). The aim of this present report is to do an economicfeasibility test regarding the wind farm at a specific location of South Australia. In this report Murray Bridge is selected as the location which will be tested that whether ornot this area is suitable for building a wind farm or not. This file includes a preliminaryinvestigation which has activities such as creating a histogram for analysing speed of wind in oneyear. This report also includes multiple calculations which will support the end result. 1. ANNUAL DISCRETE WIND SPEED CALCULATION WITHHISTOGRAM AND PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONAnnual average wind speedWind speed is the rate at which air moves in an area. Murray Bridge is a city in SouthAustralia which has average wind speed. The below data in below data is generated from thewind database of Australia. The below information is related to the year of 2014 (Wind speeddata, 2014). Wind speed procured from database has been discrete to the nearest integer andsorted according to the occurrence in a year. In this, it is assumed that the turbine will be buildand placed at a smooth hard ground. Calculation of average wind speed is conducted below:Wind Speed (m/s)No. of hoursProbability of wind speedDiscrete wind speed * probability0230.002625571011460.0166666670.01666666723650.0416666670.08333333335250.0599315070.17979452147420.0847031960.338812785510180.1162100460.581050228611470.1309360730.785616438712140.1385844750.970091324810910.1245433790.99634703298690.0992009130.892808219106020.0687214610.6872146121

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