Avaliação do rendimento de unidade de bombeamento de água acionada por um gerador eólico de pequeno porte

Abstract

This work presents a system for water pumping using an independent small wind generator, installed in the UFC´s Campus. The generator’s power is 1 kW and uses a permanent magnet technology providing advantages such as: lower losses in the rotor, lower heating and achieving higher yields. Besides the wind generator, the system consists of centrifugal pump-motor assembly 0,5 cv of power, a flow meter, a pressure meter, an energy analyzer that records the electrical data (current, voltage, power), a datalogger for data collection and a shell anemometer for measuring of wind speed. The project consists in determining the performance of this system for the local wind conditions, from data collected during the months of May and July 2008. The results show that in only about 10,97% of total days for the month of May and about 54,57% of the total days of July, the pump-motor was triggered by the wind generator and the global yields ranging between 0,41 to 0,74%. Observing the flow values found when compared with the characteristic curve of the pump used, there is a perceived under-utilization of the same, especially in May.