Small Wind Standards and Development

January 16, 2012

Niall McMahon and Raymond Byrne sit on the Irish Wind Energy Association’s Small and Medium Wind Committee (ISMWC).

Raymond Byrne is Ireland’s national representative to relevant International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards committees. These are the IEA’s Wind Task 27 group and the group responsible for drafting the third edition of the international IEC 61400-2 standard. Wind Task 27 is concerned with ensuring that consumer labels for small wind turbines display accurate information; IEC 61400-2 is the most important international standard for the design of small wind turbines.

Our standards development work forms part of CREDIT’s small and medium wind research effort.


Small Wind Turbine Test Platform

November 9, 2011

A 1.5 kW test wind turbine is located on-campus at DkIT. Its intended purpose is to provide a real test-platform for the prototype overspeed device. Read the rest of this entry »


Flow-Battery System

November 9, 2011

CREDIT operates a large flow-battery electricity storage system. This is coupled to the campus Vestas V52 wind turbine. We believe this to be the first installation of its kind in Europe, i.e. a flow-battery with a large-scale stand-alone wind turbine. The battery was installed primarily as a research platform.

CREDIT's ZBB Flow Battery.

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Remote Monitoring and Control of the Campus Wind Turbine

October 19, 2011

Complementing our flow-battery research, a SCADA system is under development. The system will extract and display data from the wind turbine’s control system and the power meters in the campus electrical compound.

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Small Wind Turbine Models

October 19, 2011

Straightforward mathematical and numerical techniques can be used to build useful models of small- and medium-sized wind turbines. At present, we are working on a platform that can be used to underpin small- and medium-sized wind turbine design and standards development. Read the rest of this entry »


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