Patented Micro-Wind Constant Voltage & Constant Power Generation Technology for Sale (China Authorized Patent)

I don’t know where you got the 13m/s you say I used, but 13^3/5^3 = 17.576. So in 5m/s wind you would need 18 times as many wind turbines or wind turbine area to produce as much power as in 13m/s wind.

If you don’t give your sources and write out your calculations, we cant check your work. But, yes, obviously when you choose a site that has an average wind speed of 5m/s, you are losing money. Micro wind turbines usually are placed poorly, like we saw in the study with the 3.75% capacity factor.

Here is a calculator to how much power is available in the wind at different wind speeds, \frac{W}{m^2}: Wind Power Density Interactive Calculator | FIRGELLI

An AI response below, checked and edited. I haven’t checked and corrected the Actual Industry Reality numbers. I look at that after the AI response. Note that this does not use your “单个风叶” (single blade) metric. That’s not a metric I am familiar with and I don’t understand why you would want to use that.

To check the power densities:

Siemens-Gamesa SG 5.8-155 - Manufacturers and turbines - Online access - The Wind Power 307 W/m², rated wind speed 11m/s.
GE Vernova GE Haliade-X 12 MW - 12,00 MW - Wind turbine 315.8 W/m², rated wind speed 10.5 m/s.
Shandong Swiss Electric YZ190/10.0 - Manufacturers and turbines - Online access - The Wind Power 353 W/m².



Wind Turbine Power Output Calculator — Rotor Power in W

You multiply this with Capacity Factor (CF) and hours in a year (8766) to get an estimate of yearly electricity production:

Yearly electricity production (Wh) = CF × 8766 × 0.5 × ρ × A × V³ × Cp × η.


Power coefficients of different wind turbine types:

This result agrees with the below, but we have discussed this image on the forum before - it might have a mistranscription -, and it is an old result.

energies-16-02774-with-cover.pdf (2.1 MB)


Again, electricity, yearly (Wh) = CF × 8766 × 0.5 × ρ × A × V³ × Cp × η

For a Savonius wind turbine with a capacity factor of 3.75% typical for micro wind, area of 1 m^2, rated wind speed of 10m/s, power coefficient of 0.16, generator efficiency of 90%:

Electricity, yearly (Wh) = 0.0375 × 8766 × 0.5 × 1.2 × 1 × 10³ × 0.16 × 0.9 = 28.4 kWh

You can improve on this by choosing a better site that would give you a better capacity factor.

You now want to improve the capacity factor by, essentially, coupling more rotor area to a single generator in low winds, thereby reducing gearing efficiency and probably the power coefficient.

Have you looked at:

  1. How undersizing the generator affects the power coefficient of a wind turbine? By doing that you change the tip speed ratio of the turbine away from the optimum.
  2. How the aspect ratio of the turbine blades affects the power coefficient?
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