Utilization of Airborne Wind Energy in Iran

Flying Electric Generator (FEG) can be a wind turbine which operates at high altitude, where there is a continuous fast flow of air and converts wind energy to electrical power. The related field is an interdisciplinary area and is mostly related to the Aerospace Engineering and Energy Conversion. We focused on Iran, as one of the few lands on North Pole that have a high overall amount of high altitude wind energy for at least half of the year over it, According to information of atlas of airborne wind energy in this work. So that, for installing the FEGs on Iran, we had to find, places with a safe aerial space overhead which grant us reliable spots over country. These places found by subtracting sensitive areas from all overhead space over country, in a 3D map. Then, overlapping seasonal data of optimized level and area showed us the places that FEGs should be flown there. Then considering population density was studied. Then by over lapping these series of data, we found places over country that are safe and have the most powerful amount of wind jets blown there. Then, in electrical aspect, the common generators were studied and the best type of them was chosen for this purpose and cost analyze done for the case. At last by considering all pervious data, estimation on produced energy using this method for Iran was calculated. In summery by this work we can find places on the ground that the ground facility for FEG wind farm could be established without considering the safety.

کلیدواژه ها:

Flying Electric Generator ، jet stream ، high altitude wind ، wind energy ، utilization ، permanent magnet generator ، back-to-back VSC ، direct driven wind turbine