RESEARCH ARTICLE

Analysis and characterization of wind-solar-constant torque spring hybridized model

  • Shantanu ACHARYA ,
  • Subhadeep BHATTACHARJEE
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  • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura 799055, India

Received date: 26 Aug 2013

Accepted date: 30 Nov 2013

Published date: 09 Sep 2014

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Solar and wind are the most promising renewable energy resources. But their unpredictable and varying nature prevents them from being used as the sole resource for power generation. This paper presents a model of wind and solar thermal hybrid power plant with a spring storage system which is expected to play an efficient role in combating with the drawbacks related to renewable power generation. In the proposed scheme, wind energy is harnessed by a hybrid vertical axis wind turbine, solar energy is utilized by a Stirling engine, and the surplus energy is stored in a winding spring. The paper discusses the working methodologies and analyses the performance of such 2.6 kW hybrid power plant model. It has been observed that the plant is capable of consistently generating 50% of its rated capacity irrespective of limitations in solar and wind resources.

Cite this article

Shantanu ACHARYA , Subhadeep BHATTACHARJEE . Analysis and characterization of wind-solar-constant torque spring hybridized model[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 0 , 8(3) : 279 -289 . DOI: 10.1007/s11708-014-0312-z

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