SET Proceedings

2978-4387

Caravel Press

10.65582/set.2008.190

2008.190

Analysis of a onshore wind farm in India-for sustainable development

Joselin Herbert

G.M

joselindev@yahoo.co.in Iniyan

iniyan777@hotmail.com Goic

Ranko

rgoic@fesb.hr Department of Mechanical Engineering, Professor, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai-119, India Department of Mechanical Engineering, professor, Anna University, Chennai-25, India Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Naval Architecture,professor, University of Split, Split, Croatia

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24 August 2008

2008

The rapid development of electricity generation by wind energy is eco-friendly and does not pollute the atmosphere unlike thermal power plant. In this paper, the status like performance, reliability and various problems of a wind farm which is located at Muppandal, southern part of India have been analysed. This wind farm has 15 numbers of wind turbine generators (WTGs) of each 400 kW capacity and its annual average generation was 1.4 x 10⁷ kWh. The performance status such as technical availability, real availability and capacity factor for this windfarm were 98.26 %, 83.06 % and 26.61 % respectively. The information from existing data of this wind farm was collected and reliability status like failure rate, mean time to failure, median, mode and reliability were calculated. In this paper an advanced Weibull technique was carried out for estimation of reliability and the reliability results are presented. The percentage of average stoppage time due to grid failure, low wind, electrical component failure, mechanical component failure and preventive maintenance are 13 %, 79 %, 2 %, 5 % and 1 % respectively. It also deals with Pareto analysis to classify the data and rank the categories of the failures in the descending order of their occurrences.

Windfarm availability performance reliability and weibul technique

24 to 27 August 2008

7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies

SET2008

Seoul, Korea

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