Wind Power Assessment and Site Matching of Wind Turbines in Lootak of Zabol

Abstract

Essentially, there are some effectiveness parameters on variation of measured wind data including season and date, hub height, roughness of land and climate conditions at a specific location. Wind potential assessment based on specifications of wind (data) as the most important factors can be performed for each sites. In this paper, the measured data of wind such as wind speed and wind direction for three year from 2007 to 2009 at different elevations (10, 30 and 40 m) were statically evaluated for Lootak of Zabol. The potential of wind energy as one of the renewable energies resources for power production were evaluated. The three years mean value of some parameters such as wind energy density, wind speed, standard deviation, Weibull parameters (k and c), the most probable wind speed and the optimal wind speed during the whole three years were calculated. Moreover, among five different wind turbines, the monthly and annual variations of capacity factor were investigated for choosing the suitable wind turbine.

Keywords

• Potential of wind power; wind turbine; site matching; Lootak

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