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H. Seifi Davary, Sh. Kouravand, I. Khatami,
Volume 20, Issue 1 (1-2020)
Abstract
The important factor in turbine efficiency is turbine rotation. The higher the rotor time at different speeds, especially at low speeds, increases the turbine power. In this regard, first, the airfoil NACA0015 was selected and the K-ω SST turbulence method was used for numerical analysis. The validation was performed using experimental results. The wind turbine was designed and fabricated by CATIA software. The aluminum sheet used by a series alloy is used to make smooth, porous leaves from simple cards and diamond-shaped leaves, in a porous form with 0.3 mm thick. The instrument used in measurement, testing and fabrication have been calibrated to compute more precisely and to generate wind flow from the four-fan blower. The results show that the darriues vertical axis wind turbine with porous and flat blades has begun to rotation at the speed of 2.3 and 3.9 m/s. At the speed of 2.5 and 3 m/s, the rotation of wind turbine porous blade doubled and at the speed of 4 m/s, its rotation speed was 3 times higher than the speed of straight blade turbine. The rotation of wind turbine porous blade in speeds of 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5 and 7 m/s were 56.25 %, 20 %, 22 %, 15 %, 7.5 %, and 12% higher than the straight blade turbine and in speed of 8-10 m/s the rotation of the straight blade turbine and porous blade turbine is almost equal.
Volume 20, Issue 2 (4-2013)
Abstract
This study analyzes wind energy potentials of Zanjan province which located in northwest of Iran. Renewable energy plans are not fully environmentally safe and different renewable energy plans have different environmental impacts. Therefore, site selection is an important issue in the wind turbine installation and therefore, selecting an appropriate wind turbine site requires consideration of multiple alternative solution and evaluation criteria because of the system complexities. In this paper, using AHP and fuzzy TOPSIS techniques in conjunction with GIS, wind turbine potentials of the study area are evaluated. Criteria weights are obtained from pairwise comparison of identified criteria and after fuzzification of both criteria weights and criteria map layers using triangular fuzzy numbers, fuzzy TOPSIS technique is utilized to integrate and rank more suitable alternatives for the wind turbine installation. The results shows the ability of multi-criteria methods to evaluate suitable sites in geographic areas on one side and good potentials sites of Zanjan province to establish new energy plans on the other.
