Measurement of Truck Cab Flow in Support of Wind Turbine Testing

Technical Report · Thu Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6900· OSTI ID:6900

Larwood, S M ^[1]; Acker, B; Sencenbaugh, J ^[2]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2. Windlite Corporation

This report describes an experiment to measure the airflow over a truck cab that can be used to conduct steady-state tests on an 8-kW wind turbine. The cab airflow measurements were made to document the turbine inflow for analytical models. The airflow measurements were made with an array of anemometers positioned to represent the turbine rotor disk. The data showed that the influence of the truck cab was primarily in the lower sector of the rotor disk. The influence was negligible in the rest of the rotor disk.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-99-GO10337
• OSTI ID: 6900
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-500-25714; ON: DE00006900; TRN: US200306%%278
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 17 Dec 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

17 WIND ENERGY
ANEMOMETERS
ROTORS
TESTING
TURBINES
WIND TURBINES