Open AccessFoundations, Design, and Dynamic Performance of Wind Turbines: Overview and Challenges in Sudan
Author(s) -
Ruba Asim Hamza,
Amged O. Abdelatif
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1858-7313
DOI - 10.52981/fjes.v9i1.665
Subject(s) - wind power , turbine , foundation (evidence) , marine engineering , renewable energy , engineering , electrification , offshore wind power , electricity , civil engineering , environmental science , mechanical engineering , archaeology , electrical engineering , history
Sudan is one of the developing countries that suffers from a lack of electricity, where the national electrification rate is estimated at 38.5%. In order to solve this problem, it is possible to use renewable energy sources such as wind energy. Beside many aspects to be considered at the design of wind turbine foundations, more attention should be given to the geotechnical part. There are many types of foundations for wind turbines. The foundation must satisfy two design criteria: 1) It should be safe against bearing failure in soils under design loads and settlements during the life of the structure must not cause structural damage; 2) In addition to static loads, wind turbine foundations loads are extremely eccentrically and the loading is usually highly dynamic. Therefore, the selection of foundation type should consider these two criteria taking into account the nature and magnitude of these loads. This paper presents a review of different types of wind turbine foundations of focusing on on-shore wind turbine foundation types and the dynamic response of wind turbine. The paper also demonstrate experimentally the dynamic response of the wind turbines using wind tunnel facility test on a scaled model.