Annual Report 2011-2012

Annual Research Report 2011-2012
Project Title:
Basic Design and Preliminary Design Phases of the Project
"Design and Fabrication of a 2MW Wind Turbine"
Department: Wind Turbine R&D Dept.
Employer: TAVANIR Co.
Project Manager: Abbas Bahri
Project Code: CWTVA01
Project Summary:
According to map of Ministry of Energy respect to wind energy development as one of
the sources of energy and following preliminary studies and conceptual design of
national wind turbine, a national project entitled "Design and Fabrication of a 2MW
Wind Turbine", has been started in November 2010. The client of project is TAVANIR
Co.
In the first step, the project brake down, organizing the technical team, acquiring the
team members, planning and budgeting the project in various phases has been carried
out.
In basic design phase, overall design of wind turbine system and general specs of main
component has been determined. A bench mark study of commercial wind turbines has
been used for this purpose. According to national wind atlas, the IEC class of wind
turbine was determined and some sites for installing the prototype were nominated.
With regard to basic design of wind turbine, a primitive 3D model of wind turbine has
been created and MBS model of wind turbine was used for some dynamic analysis.
In preliminary design phase, wind turbine was divided to some sub systems (regarding
functionality and structural characteristics) and relevant sources were allocated to each
part.
Conducting iterative design method, the knowledge of components design has been
developed by the team, as well as wind turbine system design. As an output of this
phase, a preliminary mock up of wind turbine including 3D model of assembled major
parts has been demonstrated. Purchasing specs of some component have been
determined.
In house standards of design, fabrication and test of different components, based on
international standards, were proposed and approved.
Suppliers and manufacturers of wind turbine components were identified for further
communication.
Domestic capabilities in prototype and mass production phases have been evaluated and
plan of detail design phase has been revised.
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