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Wind energy.
There is energy in all moving fluids as you would suspect.
This amount of energy is theoretically defined as:
Half of the mass moving through the turbine per second multiplied by the velocity squared.
1/2 * m * v² = Ek
m = ρ x V (mass is density x Volume)
V = A x d/t (Voulme is Area x depth per second)
v = d/t (velocity is depth per second)
[circular turbine]
A = π x r² (Area is pi x radius of blade square)
m = ρ π r² v
[ rectangular turbine ]
A = h x w (?)
m = ?
1/2 * ρ π r² v * v² = Ek
1/2 * ρ π r² * v³ =Ek
Applying the Betz limit: 16 / 27
16/27 * 1/2 * ρ π r² * v³ =Ek
8/27 * ρ π r² * v³ =Ek
definitions :
Ek: kinetic energy in Joules captured by wind turbine.
m: mass in Kg.
v: velocity of air upwind of turbine in meters per second
ρ: Rho, density of air in kilograms per cubic meter. The relationship between air density and temperature is linear.
30C ρ 1.1644 20C ρ 1.2041 10C ρ 1.2466
π: Pi, the ratio of the perimeter to the diameter of a circle (approx 3.1415….)
Betz limit: Because a wind turbine works by reducing the velocity in the air and transfers that energy to the turbine, the air can only reduce in velocity so much before the wind simply wont move through the turbine. If we extracted all the velocity from the air, it would stop and pile up behind the turbine, obviously that’s not possible. It turns out this number is equal to 16/27 (59.25%). This number itself is a theoretical maximum based on the efficiency of the turbine design.
That is the theoretical maximum energy we can extract from moving air with a turbine.
Pat yourself on the back if you noticed that 8/27 was equal to 2³/3³.
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