MODELING OF A 1000 WATT WIND GENERATOR AND COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

Harvesting the wind energy has been existing since ancient civilization such as sailing ships. Nowadays, wind energy is harvest to generate an electrical energy using a wind generator. In order to ensure the safety and the durability of the wind generator, the performance and the characteristic of the generator needs to be investigated. Unfortunately, the wind generator does not come with a detail drawing and electrical properties that required for modeling purposes in the FEA software. An image processing techniques is proposed to acquire the dimension. In order to generate a quality meshing, adaptive meshing technique is used in the magnetostatic solver. Then, the mesh is imported into the transient solver. It is shows that by using the proposed method to acquire the dimension, the dimension error is around 5 percent. Furthermore, using adaptive meshing technique proposed in this study, the difference between the simulation results and experimental results is around 3 percent.