TY - GEN
T1 - Wind power generation scale mapping of Bangladesh at different turbine heights
AU - Islam, Mohammad Shariful
AU - Islam, Asif
AU - Islam, Mohammad Zakirul
PY - 2014/7/21
Y1 - 2014/7/21
N2 - Due to unimpressive prospect of fuel cell, geothermal, tidal and wave resources, wind energy is a major renewable energy source in Bangladesh along with solar and biomass energy. Bangladesh has a projected electricity demand of 10283 MW by the end of the year 2015, only 100 MW of that huge demand is projected to come from wind power sources, most of which is planned to be deployed in the coastal area and islands. But there are other places of interest for wind power generation, which could be good means for solving the huge power crisis. In this paper, feasibility of different scale of wind power generation at 35 different places is studied in perspective of Wind Power Density (WPD) at different turbine heights. All 35 sites attain power class 1 at 50m height, whereas at 120m height only 5 sites are projected to attain a much larger WPD and achieve a power class of 2 or more and remaining 30 places still belong to power class 1. From WPD and mapped turbine's rotor diameter from wind power class it is found that, large scale wind turbine at Chittagong and Jessore, medium scale at Khepupara, and small scale at Cox's Bazar and Hatiya is feasible.
AB - Due to unimpressive prospect of fuel cell, geothermal, tidal and wave resources, wind energy is a major renewable energy source in Bangladesh along with solar and biomass energy. Bangladesh has a projected electricity demand of 10283 MW by the end of the year 2015, only 100 MW of that huge demand is projected to come from wind power sources, most of which is planned to be deployed in the coastal area and islands. But there are other places of interest for wind power generation, which could be good means for solving the huge power crisis. In this paper, feasibility of different scale of wind power generation at 35 different places is studied in perspective of Wind Power Density (WPD) at different turbine heights. All 35 sites attain power class 1 at 50m height, whereas at 120m height only 5 sites are projected to attain a much larger WPD and achieve a power class of 2 or more and remaining 30 places still belong to power class 1. From WPD and mapped turbine's rotor diameter from wind power class it is found that, large scale wind turbine at Chittagong and Jessore, medium scale at Khepupara, and small scale at Cox's Bazar and Hatiya is feasible.
KW - Wind energy
KW - Wind power density
KW - Wind speed
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84912544601&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/icdret.2014.6861735
DO - 10.1109/icdret.2014.6861735
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84912544601
T3 - Proceedings of 2014 3rd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology, ICDRET 2014
BT - Proceedings of 2014 3rd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology, ICDRET 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 3rd International Conference on the Developments in Renewable Energy Technology, ICDRET 2014
Y2 - 29 May 2014 through 31 May 2014
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