Potential for wind energy generation in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
Wind power has gained space in Brazil's energy matrix, being a clean source and inexhaustible. Therefore, it becomes important to characterize the wind potential of a given location, for future applications. The main objective of the present study was to estimate the wind energy potential in Pi...
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| author | Vanessa de F. Grah Isaac de M. Ponciano Tarlei A. Botrel |
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| description | Wind power has gained space in Brazil's energy matrix, being a clean source and inexhaustible. Therefore, it becomes important to characterize the wind potential of a given location, for future applications. The main objective of the present study was to estimate the wind energy potential in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. The wind speed data were collected by an anemometer installed at the Meteorological Station Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, Piracicaba-SP. The wind speed variability was represented by the Weibull frequency distribution, a probability density function of two parameters (k and c). The parameters k and c were used to correlate the Gamma function with the annual average wind speed, the variance and power mean density. A wind profile was made to evaluate the behavior of historical average speeds at higher altitudes measured by anemometer, to estimate the gain in power density. The values of k for all heights were close to 1 which corresponds to a wind regime highly variable, and c values were also low representing a low average speed of the location. The location was characterized as being unfavorable for the application of wind turbines for power generation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d40dfed6fd0d4d21bb5282e87c1ac8bc2025-08-20T03:25:12ZengUniversidade Federal de Campina GrandeRevista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental1807-19292014-05-0118555956410.1590/S1415-43662014000500014S1415-43662014000500014Potential for wind energy generation in Piracicaba, SP, BrazilVanessa de F. Grah0Isaac de M. Ponciano1Tarlei A. Botrel2Universidade de São PauloUniversidade de São PauloUniversidade de São PauloWind power has gained space in Brazil's energy matrix, being a clean source and inexhaustible. Therefore, it becomes important to characterize the wind potential of a given location, for future applications. The main objective of the present study was to estimate the wind energy potential in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. The wind speed data were collected by an anemometer installed at the Meteorological Station Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, Piracicaba-SP. The wind speed variability was represented by the Weibull frequency distribution, a probability density function of two parameters (k and c). The parameters k and c were used to correlate the Gamma function with the annual average wind speed, the variance and power mean density. A wind profile was made to evaluate the behavior of historical average speeds at higher altitudes measured by anemometer, to estimate the gain in power density. The values of k for all heights were close to 1 which corresponds to a wind regime highly variable, and c values were also low representing a low average speed of the location. The location was characterized as being unfavorable for the application of wind turbines for power generation.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662014000500014&lng=en&tlng=enenergia alternativadensidade de potência dos ventosfunção de distribuição de Weibull |
| spellingShingle | Vanessa de F. Grah Isaac de M. Ponciano Tarlei A. Botrel Potential for wind energy generation in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental energia alternativa densidade de potência dos ventos função de distribuição de Weibull |
| title | Potential for wind energy generation in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil |
| title_full | Potential for wind energy generation in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Potential for wind energy generation in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Potential for wind energy generation in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil |
| title_short | Potential for wind energy generation in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil |
| title_sort | potential for wind energy generation in piracicaba sp brazil |
| topic | energia alternativa densidade de potência dos ventos função de distribuição de Weibull |
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