Wind Energy: The ancient

renewable energy
Avanish Pati Tripathi: LiderORG
Group

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 History
1. Golden era 13th to 19th century
2. Era of windmill and water pumping
3. 6 million units were installed in US midwest alone
4. Era started to decline with introduction of grid electricity

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 Wind energy: Scope
• 2% of total solar energy (15,224 x 1014 Kwh energy every year)
converted into wind energy
• Differential heating of earth, sea and air causes wind
• This energy is 50 times more than what all organisms can
capture

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 Advantages of wind power
• Can generate 2% of total energy need
• Environmental Benefit
• Economic Development Benefit
• Less costly than solar PV plants

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 Power in wind
• Power= ½ x fluid density x rotor area (sweep)
or surface area x wind speed3
• Similar to pressure drag formula

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 Problems with Wind energy
• Brake failure during storms can cause total collapse and
destruction of turbine
• Very unreliable
• Wind only available at remote places
• Maintenance is very difficult
• Installation is full of hassle
• Death of birds
• Extreme noise pollution

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Ray of hope

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 Ray of hope
• Better efficiency than most IC engines
• Capacity factor can be increased to 35% in
selected areas
• Specialized blade designs
• Power electronics
• Efficient machines from computer modeling
• Better manufacturing

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