IMPROVING THE POWER GENERATION EFFICIENCY OF WIND TURBINE GENERATION USING WIND TRACKER

Subject Area: power system

This work presents improving the power generation efficiency of wind turbine generation using wind tracker. The aim is to optimize the performance of the turbine by sensing the direction where the wind has its maximum intensity and then adjust the turbine to that direction. This was achieved using mathematical modeling of the wind turbine and then the development of the wind tracker system to model the improved wind turbine system. The models were implemented on Simulink platform and evaluated. The result showed that 3259KW of power was average generated when simulated which is 93% efficient. The result of comparative analysis with a characterized wind turbine without wind tracker achieved 3146KW as against 3255KW in the new system, thus presenting a percentage improvement of 3.35%.