Assessment and analysis of wind power resource using weibull parameters

M. Bassyouni; Saud Gutub; Umair Javaid; Muhammad Awais; Shafiqur Rehman; S. Abdel-Hamid; M. Abdel-Aziz; A. Abouel-Kasem; Hani Shafeek

doi:10.1260/0144-5987.33.1.105

Assessment and analysis of wind power resource using weibull parameters

M. Bassyouni^*
, Saud Gutub
, Umair Javaid
, Muhammad Awais
, Shafiqur Rehman
, S. Abdel-Hamid
, M. Abdel-Aziz
, A. Abouel-Kasem
, Hani Shafeek

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this study, wind data of eleven years (2002-2012) has been used to determine wind characteristics of Saudi Arabian city Jeddah. These characteristics include the daily, monthly and annual wind speed, wind probability density distribution, shape (k) and scale (c) parameters at 10 m height. The analysis revealed that yearly values of k ranged from 1.398 to 1.763 with a mean value of 1.590 and values of scale parameter c varied from 3.146 to 4.329 with mean value of 3.95. Furthermore, the results showed that maximum and minimum wind power potential was observed in the month of March and February, respectively. The wind was found to be blowing predominantly from south east direction. It was found that wind potential of the region can be used for small scale off-grid wind applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	105-122
Number of pages	18
Journal	Energy Exploration and Exploitation
Volume	33
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1260/0144-5987.33.1.105
State	Published - 1 Feb 2015

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Keywords

Energy
Weibull parameters
Wind direction
Wind power potential

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Fuel Technology
Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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