Wind speed and power characteristics for Jubail industrial city, Saudi Arabia

M.A. Baseer, J.P. Meyer, Md. Mahbub Alam and S. Rehman

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015, vol. 52, issue C, 1193-1204

Abstract: This paper presents the wind characteristics and resource assessment of the largest industrial base in the Middle East (Jubail industrial city) using measured hourly mean wind speed data at 10, 50 and 90m above ground level (AGL) from 2008 to 2012. At respective heights, the mean wind speeds were found to be 3.34, 4.79 and 5.35m/s. At 50 and 90m AGL, the availability of wind speed above 3.5m/s was more than 75%. The prevailing wind direction was from the north-west. The local wind shear exponent calculated using measured wind speed values at three heights was found to be 0.217. The mean wind power density values at measurement heights were 50.92, 116.03 and 168.46W/m2 respectively. The comparison of energy output from five commercially selected wind turbines of rated power ranging from 1.8–3.3MW showed that the most efficient wind turbine is 3.0MW rated power. The annual energy production from this turbine was estimated to be 6285 MWh with a plant capacity factor of 25%.

Keywords: Wind speed; Wind rose; Weibull parameters; Frequency distribution; Wind shear exponent; Capacity factor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.109

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