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Chapter 4—Wind Turbine Power 4–31<br />

One way of designing shafts to carry a given torque is to select a maximum shearing stress<br />

which will be allowed for a given shaft material. This stress occurs at r = r o ,soEqs.36and<br />

37 can be solved for the shaft radius. The shaft diameter which will have this maximum stress<br />

is<br />

D =2r o =2 3 √<br />

2T<br />

πf s<br />

m (38)<br />

The maximum stress in Eq. 38 is usually selected with a significant safety factor. Recommended<br />

maximum stresses for various shaft materials can be found in machine design books.<br />

Example<br />

You are designing a wind turbine with an electrical generator rated at 200 kW output. The low<br />

speed shaft rotates at 40 r/min and the high speed shaft rotates at 1800 r/min. Solid steel shafts are<br />

available with recommended maximum stresses of 55 MPa. The gearbox efficiency at rated conditions<br />

is 0.94 and the generator efficiency is 0.93. Determine the necessary shaft diameters.<br />

From Eq. 11, the angular velocities for the low and high speed shafts are<br />

ω m = 2π(40)<br />

60<br />

=4.19 rad/s<br />

ω t = 2π(1800)<br />

60<br />

The power in the high speed shaft is<br />

= 188.5 rad/s<br />

The power in the low speed shaft is<br />

P t =<br />

200, 000<br />

0.93<br />

= 215, 000 W<br />

The torques are then<br />

P m =<br />

215, 000<br />

0.94<br />

= 229, 000 W<br />

T m =<br />

229, 000<br />

4.19<br />

=54, 650 N · m/rad<br />

T t =<br />

215, 000<br />

188.5<br />

= 1140 N · m/rad<br />

Wind Energy Systems by Dr. Gary L. Johnson November 21, 2001

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