%0 Journal Article
%T Feasibility Study to Install Wind Farm in Bab Al-Hawa, Irbid, Northwest of Jordan
%A Mohammad Al-Smairan
%A Omar Al-Nhoud
%J Modern Mechanical Engineering
%P 30-48
%@ 2164-0181
%D 2019
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/mme.2019.91004
%X The utilization of wind energy for power generation purposes is becoming
increasingly attractive and gaining a great share in the electrical power
production market worldwide. This research</span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">was
considered a feasibility study of wind energy farm in Bab Al-Hawa, Irbid. The
average wind speed in the site is (6.5 m/s). Data have been collected, which
includes the average monthly wind speed for 10 years, but by HOMER software to
create the hourly wind speed of a representative year </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">is</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> created
in order</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">to build Weibull distribution and to calculate the energy generated
output of the project. This project contains the construction of 33 wind
turbines in 3.11 km square. Each turbine has a capacity of 900 kW rated power
and the total rated capacity is 29.7 MW. The capacity factor was found equal to
37.1% which means the amount of utilization of the turbine capacity. The
results show that the turbines work 87,286 h/yr, and the total energy generated
is 96.548559 GWh/yr. from the 33 wind turbine</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">s</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> installed. The initial cost of this project is equal to 80.5243 M$ and the
Payback period </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">is</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> 7 years. We have taken into account the environmental impact such as CO</span><sub><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">2</span></sub><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> emissions into consideration. CO</span><sub><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">2</span></sub><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> reductions by using wind energy
instead of
%K Wind Farm
%K Bab Al-Hawa
%K HOMER Software
%K Energy
%K Capacity Factor
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=90774