 Contribution to improving the modeling of wind and evaluation of the wind potential of the site of Lome: Problems of taking into account the frequency of calm windsAkim Adekunle Salami, Ayite Senah Akoda Ajavon, Mawugno Koffi Kodjo and Koffi-Sa Bedja Renewable Energy, 2013, vol. 50, issue C, 449-455 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to determine for the site of Lome, the best model that fits the frequency histogram of wind speeds to estimate with precision the amounts of recoverable wind energy. Our study was to characterize the wind potential of Lome using the approach of Hybrid Weibull distribution because of calm winds observed in the series of wind measurements of the site. To do this, two other traditional approaches often used to model the winds have been applied to this same site to better assess the results of applying the method of Hybrid Weibull. To this end, we first determined the statistical characteristics of measurements on the site and the methods used to model wind and evaluate the wind potential. We then proceeded to apply these methods to the site data, and finally an analysis of the results to confirm the validity of using the approach of hybrid Weibull distribution was made. Keywords: Normal distribution; Classical Weibull distribution; Hybrid Weibull distribution; Modeling; Evaluation of wind energy potential (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:50:y:2013:i:c:p:449-455 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.06.057 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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