Abstract
The installation of wind turbines and consequently the use of wind energy is increasing day by day, since the rapid development in semiconductor technology has led to more advance in the wind turbine technologies. On the other hand, it is well known that a Graphical User Interface (GUI) application provides great advantages to the user such as; the use of programming language and data input for systems without coding, getting the results with the help of symbols, icons and other visual graphics. Accordingly, in this paper, to determine the amount of energy production, cost of energy and etc., of a Wind Turbine System (WTS) that has been established or will be installed, a tool is introduced by the presented software package. Besides the analysis option, the package also offers optimization algorithms that would be used for the layout design of types of Wind Turbine Systems which are called fixed-speed and variable-speed Wind Turbine Systems seperately by keeping in consideration the wind speed and geographic features of the regions. The graphical user interface, which is the one of important features of C# program were used and called Analysis & Design Optimization Package (A&DOP).
Highlights
User interface implementations are crucial in providing connectivity between the user and the software or command directories
Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications provide a great advantage to the user in terms of the usage of any programming language and access to information by means of input data, icons and other visual graphics for systems without coding [1]
Since a great number of Wind Turbine System (WTS) with various power rates are evaluated in design process, especially in design optimizations performed with a population-based optimization algorithm, it is not possible to use rotor efficiency in a realistic manner in forming the power curve for each WTS
Summary
User interface implementations are crucial in providing connectivity between the user and the software or command directories. There are some studies in the literature [19,20,21,22,23] which mainly focused on the reliability analyses of these mathematical methods developed for characterization of output power for WTSs. It has been emphasized that the usage of a powerful method for characterizing the power curve for a WTS is an important task for the determining the amount of energy produced and its cost, accurately, results in determining the optimum size/value of design parameters [20]. Results clearly indicate that the package enables user to perform power and energy cost analyses, and design optimization to determine optimal size/value of design parameters yielding minimum cost of energy for both types of WTSs, accurately.
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