Metodologia de avaliação de rendimento de aerogeradores de pequeno porte utilizando perfis diários típicos de vento.

Abstract

The growing use of small wind turbines in urban areas around the world points to an expanding market and extremely promising, especially in Brazil, where the wind potential is great. In the case of small machines there is consumer interest in residential use, either for energy efficiency or adherence to alternative sources. There is a lot of wind turbines manufacturers in the world including high, medium and low quality. With this comes the need to classify these products as their energy efficiency, as with refrigerators, lamps, stoves and other in order to safeguard the quality of the equipment to the customer. The proposal is to create a test cycle (or cycle of winds) based on daily behavior profiles of urban winds obtained through actual measurements made by the SONDA project. This profile will be used to test wind turbines of up to 1 kW in the laboratory, with the aid of a wind tunnel in order to determine the energy efficiency of the generator set, serving as a method for the improvement of these devices. Another possibility is the use of this methodology in the Brazilian labeling Program, which ranks the products according to their energy efficiency. This job can also be used for certification laboratory accreditation which assesses products on the basis of its efficiency and/or income, since accreditation is a tool established on an international scale to generate confidence in the activities of organizations that perform conformity assessment activities.