Investigation of wind potential variation at three measurement sites based on atmospheric stability and power production

Abstract: As tapping energy from wind expands rapidly worldwide, it is a common procedure to locate a practicable site to extract energy from abundant wind flow by building wind farms. Comprehensive understanding of wind resource at a site   is important to perform the main activities say, wind flow modeling, wind   turbines micro siting, annual energy yield calculation and cost of energy   estimation. Wind measuring campaigns involve using of measuring instruments   such as meteorological tower instrumented with anemometers, wind vanes and   temperature sensors; remote sensing devices such as SoDAR, LiDAR. These   meteorological devices provide detailed information on wind behavior with   respect to the height, time and temperature. These systems were proven in   providing promising wind measurements even though they are susceptible to   certain weather conditions. The   study progressed by focusing on the wind behavior at three locations to   investigate the possible factors that varies the wind character. A location   with one met mast and two AQ500 SoDAR systems was considered for this project   where one AQ500 is 800m away and other AQ500 is 5515m away from the point of   Met mast. The location is contemplated as a decent approach to the spatial   analysis of the wind resource as there is a large scope to analyze the wind   character between two nearby sites and two faraway sites. Monostatic 3-beam   SoDAR systems from AQ System, Sweden and 100m meteorological tower with   instruments are used in this project work for collecting the wind data.   One-year worth of wind data at standard 10min intervals has been collected   from the three systems. This report outlines the theoretical description of project location, AQ500 SoDAR and Met mast. A detailed explanation of the data quality control and filtering methods are discussed along with respective reasons. The conclusion is drawn after performing the statistical analysis between wind speed and other parameters such as turbulent intensity, wind direction, thermal stability and temperature. Mat lab is used for computing and analyzing the wind data from three systems.