Abstract
Wind energy is one of the most important types of renewable energy resources in the world. The wind energy is considered friendly to the environment and relatively inexpensive power. These advantages are considered the main reasons to select wind turbines to produce the electricity in the world. An accurate analysis of the wind data is considered the main key to select the optimal location and the suitable wind turbine based on the estimated power and cost. In this research paper, a new program was built and then developed based on MATLAB to analyze deeply the wind energy in the selected locations in Iraq. MATLAB Graphical User Interface (GUI) was used to present the developed program of WIND ENERGY ANALYSIS. This software has the ability to analyze the wind speed, processing the missing data and find the correlation coefficients, besides plot the results of this analyis (wind and Rose). Furthermore, the software presented the full details about the parameters of the Weibull distribution based on two different methods (Standard Deviation Method and Energy Pattern Factor) in order to select the optimal wind turbine in the specific site depending on the minimum cost per kWh or maximum capacity factor generated from the wind energy system.
Highlights
After the industrial revolution in the 1970s of last century and the widely using of fossil energy resources that affected negatively the environment which led to appearing some undesired phenomena such as global warming, desertification, drought, melting of ice and other signs of climate change
We present the results of wind analysis in Amara, Basra, Al-Hay and Nasiriyah stations, and the optimal wind turbine that was possible to install in these sites using “WIND ENERGY ANALYSIS” software
The selection of wind turbine was based on the minimum cost per kWh or maximum capacity factor generated from wind energy system
Summary
After the industrial revolution in the 1970s of last century and the widely using of fossil energy resources that affected negatively the environment which led to appearing some undesired phenomena such as global warming, desertification, drought, melting of ice and other signs of climate change. The solution of the coupling problem between the selection of location and type of wind turbine based on techno-economic criterion has been introduced This analysis is considered an essential element before the installation of wind energy system in any country. This approach contains the accurate processes to select the optimum location and wind turbine for proposed locations depending on the minimum cost of kWh generated from wind energy system. The steps to achieve the developed approach are consumed time and effort to obtain the results based on the optimization processes It was proposed “WIND ENERGY ANALYSIS” software to achieve these calculations in easy way for users. There are many researchers investigated the problems of the wind energy in order to find the optimal solutions by using various theoretical approaches [15,16,17,18,19]
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