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. 2019 Jul 19;25:104291. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104291

A large volume wind data for renewable energy applications

R Bharani 1,, A Sivaprakasam 1
PMCID: PMC6685692  PMID: 31406906

Abstract

The objective of the collection of dataset is to calculate the wind energy potential in the selected location using large volume of wind dataset. The wind energy potential data were collected at 100 m height from MSL (Mean Sea Level) from 2014 to 2016. The wind speed and direction were used to analyse wind energy characteristics and suitable site for wind turbine installation. The maximum wind power density was observed at monitoring sites S1, S2, S3 and S4. The altitude of the monitoring station and geomorphology of the site significantly controls the wind power density.

Keywords: Wind speed, Wind direction, Wind power density, Wind energy potential, Geomorphology


Specifications Table

Subject Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Specific subject area Application of Meteorological data in power production
Type of data Table
Figure
How data were acquired Data acquired from Anemometer and Wind vane Instruments
Data format Raw
Analyzed
Parameters for data collection Wind speed, Wind direction, Temperature, and Pressure data were collected at 100 m height from 12 different locations. The data is analyzed and compared for each location. Data processed using Microsoft Excel and prepared the Rose Diagram using MATLAB 2018b
Description of data collection Wind speed is measured using anemometer and wind direction is measured using wind vane. The data are recorded for every 10 minutes throughout the year. In this analysis three years (2014, 2015, and 2016) of data are used for all 12 locations.
Data source location Region: 12 data acquiring locations all along the Tamil Nadu
Country: India
Latitude and longitude for collected samples/data:
S1 – Latitude: 08˚51′39.30″N and Longitude: 77˚53′11.40″E
S2 – Latitude: 10˚34′33.20″N and Longitude: 77˚41′21.30″E
S3 – Latitude: 10˚44′36.70″N and Longitude: 78˚08′17.00″E
S4 – Latitude: 08˚57′44.05″N and Longitude: 77˚43′12.73″E
S5 – Latitude: 10˚03′21.90″N and Longitude: 78˚42′46.00″E
S6 – Latitude: 09˚04′47.50″N and Longitude: 78˚17′44.30″E
S7 – Latitude: 11˚22′48.00″N and Longitude: 77˚10′50.70″E
S8 – Latitude: 10˚08′28.20″N and Longitude: 77˚44′04.70″E
S9 – Latitude: 09˚09′33.20″N and Longitude: 77˚31′46.70″E
S10 – Latitude: 09˚28′23.10″N and Longitude: 77˚44′17.20″E
S11 – Latitude: 11˚03′50.22″N and Longitude: 78˚39′04.90″E
S12 – Latitude: 10˚38′17.74″N and Longitude: 78˚31′41.95″E
Data accessibility With the article
Value of the Data
  • The large volume of wind direction data can be used to analyse, the average annual wind direction of the site.

  • The wind data monitoring for large period was helpful to identify the suitable location for installing the wind turbines and also used to find the type of wind turbine.

  • The wind data based power density of the each site can be used to find the geological and geomorphological control on wind power generation.

1. Data

The wind data monitoring station was selected from National Institute of Wind energy (NIWE) web portal for long term monitoring of wind data such as wind speed, wind direction, temperature and pressure (Fig. 1). The raw data can be downloaded as only text file. Those text file data is converted into excel file and the required data set such as wind speed, wind direction is separated as given as supplementary material with this article for 12 locations from S1 to S12 as Dataset1.xlsx–Dataset12.xlsx. Each Dataset file consist of data of a particular location for 3 years (2014, 2015 and 2016) for every 10 minutes. These data set in excel file consist of wind speed measured from two instrument one placed at north direction and one at south direction. For wind direction accuracy, the average of these two values are taken into account for the calculation of Wind Power Density (WPD). Fig. 2 represents the annual wind direction and speed of each location with wind frequency distribution. Table 1 represents the average wind direction of the each location, standard deviation (SD), wind power density and uncertainty of the data set for the period of 2014–2016. Table 2 shows the wind power density class for 100 m altitude data.

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Location map with monitoring sites.

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Fig. 2

a, b and c represents the annual wind direction and speed of the each site with wind frequency distribution.

Table 1.

Location wise mean monthly wind power density, standard deviation (SD) and uncertainty values.

Station name Month Wind power density (W/m2)
2014
2015
2016
Mean SD Uncertainty Mean SD Uncertainty Mean SD Uncertainty
S1 January 218.53 151.98 2.27 156.39 129.27 1.93 172.33 131.48 1.97
Feburary 148.41 130.27 2.05 96.45 119.21 1.88 163.43 148.65 2.30
March 171.04 162.66 2.43 99.41 100.05 1.52 95.41 107.98 1.62
April 84.10 102.25 1.56 68.05 105.59 1.61 88.31 109.78 1.67
May 192.25 225.07 3.37 15.87 91.36 1.37 364.83 472.13 7.07
June 1385.42 1021.84 15.55 655.65 734.02 11.17 932.81 675.56 10.28
July 1720.36 960.17 14.37 1014.86 709.11 10.63 969.17 852.97 12.77
August 796.01 884.83 13.24 698.84 580.27 8.68 894.97 605.75 9.07
September 661.46 702.39 10.69 397.33 526.26 8.01 755.16 504.24 7.67
October 15.92 30.41 0.46 112.65 161.32 2.41 200.69 293.31 4.39
November 17.87 25.78 0.39 81.97 97.75 1.49 85.42 96.29 1.47
December 150.80 130.23 1.95 174.04 140.60 2.10 162.64 188.13 2.82
S2 January 115.82 115.91 1.73 111.02 107.89 1.61 102.68 96.56 1.45
Feburary 122.93 129.65 2.04 87.62 108.17 1.70 96.85 106.82 1.69
March 151.79 134.73 2.02 51.64 82.63 1.24 2.66 7.83 0.12
April 68.30 103.63 1.58 50.97 99.32 1.51 46.68 76.28 1.16
May 111.00 151.03 2.37 113.14 150.50 2.25 223.00 293.42 4.39
June 868.81 822.82 12.52 544.96 767.57 11.68 1026.13 1057.22 16.09
July 1609.8 1044.31 15.63 887.86 752.27 11.26 922.32 1113.57 16.67
August 600.83 739.34 11.066 530.24 525.71 7.87 390.04 575.46 8.61
September 479.28 572.33 8.709 NA NA NA 661.08 573.35 8.72
October 68.355 122.131 1.828 NA NA NA 139.56 200.74 3.00
November 46.848 62.901 0.957 57.71 101.12 1.54 71.94 96.22 1.46
December 58.109 69.464 1.040 57.32 63.08 0.94 98.01 122.98 1.86
S3 January 172.41 147.66 2.21 158.01 143.72 2.15 144.63 124.88 1.87
Feburary 191.40 195.92 3.09 158.15 148.52 2.34 166.00 156.70 2.42
March 186.91 167.26 2.50 144.03 164.22 2.46 125.92 150.23 2.25
April 101.49 135.54 2.06 78.43 133.30 2.03 88.62 138.87 2.11
May 185.57 215.01 3.22 147.89 232.54 3.48 239.90 295.80 4.43
June 811.30 707.78 10.77 649.00 855.48 13.02 698.19 651.34 9.91
July 1457.35 1014.15 15.18 761.88 547.73 8.33 924.01 1005.83 15.05
August 644.71 694.75 10.40 454.25 389.74 5.93 793.25 640.57 9.59
September 482.44 498.80 7.59 278.20 399.49 6.08 520.47 340.55 5.18
October 78.11 120.08 1.80 70.87 87.58 1.31 148.27 198.08 2.96
November 70.20 82.00 1.25 82.80 116.79 1.78 116.99 118.94 1.94
December 95.64 104.90 1.57 88.62 103.19 1.54 58.44 88.93 1.70
S4 January 139.01 127.38 2.06 90.00 94.75 1.42 106.38 112.03 1.68
Feburary 89.28 101.84 1.60 98.28 102.35 1.61 107.35 133.70 2.07
March 118.34 145.68 2.18 66.12 73.51 1.10 66.03 89.23 1.34
April 74.96 143.21 2.20 292.77 385.81 5.78 86.24 128.66 1.96
May 304.83 338.01 5.18 292.77 385.81 5.78 464.36 588.75 8.81
June 1485.06 1073.18 16.33 888.84 814.33 12.39 901.49 624.92 9.52
July 985.97 548.43 16.43 957.90 640.21 9.59 942.35 804.13 12.04
August 909.11 835.22 12.50 751.02 612.95 9.18 812.73 530.75 7.94
September 692.95 658.69 10.02 477.06 564.12 8.59 742.05 465.38 7.08
October 166.78 361.03 5.40 161.28 262.44 3.93 295.49 3578.05 53.57
November 83.33 105.16 1.60 3126.32 9042.14 144.13 NA NA NA
December 90.94 107.10 1.60 106.89 161.70 2.42 NA NA NA
S5 January 181.12 90.90 82.25 122.02 85.27 1.28 145.14 91.70 1.37
Feburary 120.32 111.45 1.76 130.85 97.04 1.54 116.37 89.14 1.38
March 116.28 99.22 116.66 92.85 96.68 1.45 90.25 98.34 1.47
April 69.89 81.04 1.23 61.09 90.33 1.39 64.43 77.77 2.45
May 69.66 126.41 1.89 57.74 105.07 1.57 NA NA NA
June 81.88 120.62 1.84 36.78 46.46 0.96 NA NA NA
July 101.43 122.27 124.24 281.31 18068.86 272.52 NA NA NA
August 81.89 140.69 2.11 52.30 80.49 1.59 NA NA NA
September 59.51 103.51 73.56 85.67 108.93 1.66 NA NA NA
October 50.70 64.78 0.97 63.46 63.42 0.95 NA NA NA
November 128.72 121.47 1.86 108.34 106.42 1.62 NA NA NA
December 159.08 112.98 1.69 159.25 116.11 1.74 NA NA NA
S6 January 266.99 149.65 2.24 191.10 134.86 2.02 219.76 131.67 1.97
Feburary 192.62 158.10 2.49 213.21 157.42 2.48 192.06 143.50 2.22
March 193.41 153.59 2.30 140.93 137.52 2.09 140.35 143.09 2.14
April 145.29 158.76 2.42 127.22 164.97 2.51 172.19 185.12 2.82
May 189.63 238.66 3.57 165.71 227.46 3.40 177.43 192.92 2.89
June 481.79 477.40 7.26 445.33 495.45 7.54 364.17 347.21 5.28
July 565.42 487.55 7.30 303.55 311.19 4.66 367.30 488.84 7.32
August 343.30 410.21 6.14 258.11 263.19 3.94 319.54 325.94 5.59
September 314.38 390.21 5.94 319.54 348.90 5.31 232.18 246.40 4.53
October 87.66 115.56 1.73 127.94 165.44 2.48 122.95 147.66 2.21
November 145.12 131.58 2.00 110.08 101.55 1.54 134.82 113.35 1.72
December 209.90 160.68 2.40 207.17 157.54 2.36 172.84 140.70 2.11
S7 January 52.81 68.58 1.03 29.55 41.81 0.63 34.76 50.64 0.76
Feburary 51.25 70.64 1.11 46.94 70.44 1.11 49.53 63.98 0.99
March 72.06 98.71 1.48 43.00 77.20 1.17 55.84 65.42 0.98
April 68.85 105.59 1.61 54.89 156.34 2.38 68.99 96.12 2.31
May 128.99 177.34 2.65 146.09 266.58 3.99 NA NA NA
June 178.77 235.92 3.59 120.52 182.07 2.77 NA NA NA
July 123.74 202.40 3.03 134.34 185.16 2.77 NA NA NA
August 92.81 125.94 1.88 124.83 195.18 2.92 NA NA NA
September 101.76 149.08 2.27 112.63 181.53 2.76 NA NA NA
October 45.88 100.19 1.50 57.55 122.04 1.83 NA NA NA
November 34.24 45.93 0.70 54.48 95.55 1.45 NA NA NA
December 29.00 47.74 0.71 35.76 56.69 0.85 NA NA NA
S8 January 192.32 121.89 6.69 63.82 90.43 1.36 116.82 152.34 2.28
Feburary 80.23 111.63 1.76 109.39 131.31 2.07 72.08 99.51 1.54
March 64.71 97.97 1.47 53.37 90.32 1.35 58.61 103.17 1.54
April 66.46 153.17 2.33 48.06 115.74 1.76 48.71 92.86 2.92
May 132.59 195.01 2.92 115.98 161.80 2.42 NA NA NA
June 361.75 381.87 5.81 200.82 253.86 3.86 NA NA NA
July 364.64 366.22 5.48 239.33 220.51 3.30 NA NA NA
August 228.22 262.30 3.93 194.25 186.28 2.79 NA NA NA
September 188.06 223.05 3.39 135.03 186.87 2.84 NA NA NA
October 69.80 116.06 1.74 83.96 123.88 1.85 NA NA NA
November 114.48 159.08 2.42 78.77 130.26 1.98 NA NA NA
December 141.57 155.52 2.33 157.17 186.00 2.78 NA NA NA
S9 January 109.85 106.17 2.33 57.28 69.35 1.04 63.10 67.07 1.00
Feburary 77.17 92.22 1.45 76.19 84.15 1.33 83.66 102.24 1.58
March 93.09 107.13 1.60 52.29 78.69 1.18 59.20 99.42 1.49
April 20.79 64.59 0.98 49.21 111.73 1.70 NA NA NA
May 28.77 34.17 0.51 232.25 316.47 4.74 NA NA NA
June 427.76 398.68 6.07 486.80 411.10 6.25 NA NA NA
July 502.11 474.63 7.10 310.01 259.60 3.89 NA NA NA
August 355.20 346.19 5.18 277.74 248.61 3.72 NA NA NA
September 299.23 316.49 4.82 290.40 330.78 5.03 NA NA NA
October 80.54 163.25 2.44 148.13 257.83 3.86 NA NA NA
November 60.16 80.43 1.22 57.96 111.81 1.70 NA NA NA
December 51.51 75.34 1.13 192.68 140.22 2.10 NA NA NA
S10 January 139.40 115.00 1.72 83.37 85.16 1.27 103.79 112.23 1.68
Feburary 82.98 95.56 1.50 105.67 105.48 0.53 98.55 104.45 1.62
March 91.89 107.63 1.61 60.34 84.88 1.29 62.79 104.51 1.56
April 70.44 156.00 2.37 62.99 135.67 2.06 59.68 123.74 3.11
May 68.08 171.17 2.56 39.97 98.14 1.47 NA NA NA
June 125.22 191.19 2.91 154.03 263.34 4.01 NA NA NA
July 137.01 196.23 2.94 91.23 152.07 2.28 NA NA NA
August 121.24 182.75 2.74 81.45 139.03 2.08 NA NA NA
September 99.43 170.95 2.60 113.73 182.69 2.78 NA NA NA
October 43.91 75.72 1.13 47.30 80.94 1.21 NA NA NA
November 91.74 110.47 1.68 58.22 74.58 1.13 NA NA NA
December 108.50 124.54 1.86 146.58 154.38 2.31 NA NA NA
S11 January 219.60 150.78 12.19 176.18 75.85 3.36 142.26 96.89 1.45
Feburary 143.49 134.29 2.11 144.68 114.97 1.81 120.83 103.67 1.60
March 131.59 123.95 1.86 103.41 112.35 1.68 79.29 97.31 1.46
April 74.10 107.12 1.63 63.72 131.72 2.00 64.00 97.40 1.48
May 102.85 239.72 7.06 144.61 204.96 3.07 219.80 258.23 3.86
June 705.69 505.67 8.21 267.95 577.23 8.78 470.87 337.97 5.14
July 821.05 523.15 7.83 331.78 376.33 5.63 478.42 514.59 7.70
August 416.71 430.01 6.44 301.45 261.55 3.92 387.64 294.09 4.41
September 460.66 320.73 5.98 220.71 268.57 4.09 340.62 238.91 3.63
October NA NA NA 70.11 90.79 1.36 102.02 138.34 2.07
November 139.39 134.52 4.95 142.45 299.28 4.55 138.93 114.41 1.74
December 147.74 127.62 3.07 166.20 147.86 2.21 166.95 157.61 2.36
S12 January NA NA NA 96.60 88.80 1.33 98.30 79.55 1.19
Feburary NA NA NA 99.36 95.24 1.50 87.19 98.47 1.52
March 102.17 105.00 1.90 79.38 99.78 1.49 73.51 96.50 1.44
April 79.17 116.63 1.77 76.44 122.74 1.87 73.89 93.60 3.49
May 145.63 222.93 3.34 105.12 233.70 3.50 NA NA NA
June 596.61 519.17 7.90 366.51 547.34 8.33 NA NA NA
July 843.70 605.44 9.06 548.92 468.99 7.02 NA NA NA
August 333.75 393.59 5.89 340.51 331.03 4.96 NA NA NA
September 270.01 325.01 4.94 180.81 254.06 3.87 NA NA NA
October 71.18 109.09 1.63 55.84 106.44 1.59 NA NA NA
November 88.96 86.14 1.31 108.55 157.39 2.39 NA NA NA
December 104.19 85.26 1.28 96.88 90.08 1.35 NA NA NA

NA – Data not available; SD – Standard Deviation.

Table 2.

Wind power class with respect to height (100 m) in India.

Wind power class Height of the monitoring instruments – 100 m
Wind power density (w/m2) Mean annual wind speed (m/s)
1 0–180 0–5.4
2 180–210 5.4–5.6
3 210–250 5.6–6.0
4 250–300 6.0–6.4
5 300–350 6.4–6.7
6 350–400 6.7–7.0
7 <400 <7.0

#Source – National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) – http://niwe.res.in/department_wra_100m%20agl.php.

2. Experimental design, materials, and methods

The wind speed was monitored using field cup anemometer (Instrument Make - Adolf Thies GmbH&Co. KG, Germany). The wind direction was recorded using Thies compact TMR wind vane (KINTECH Engineering). The power density was calculated from wind direction and speed of the each monitoring location. The monitoring instrumental setup was installed at 100 m altitude in 12 monitoring location for continuous data collection for every 10 minutes. The large volume of wind data was processed using Microsoft Excel 2007 software package. The meteorological data processing, wind rose diagram and statistical analysis were carried out using MATLAB 2016 software package. Wind power density was calculated using meteorological parameters such as wind speed distribution, air density and cube of wind speed. The available wind potential (Pa) per unit area is perpendicular to the wind stream. According to Rehman et al., 1994 [1], the kinetic energy flux is expressed as follows:

Pa=0.5ρv3 (1)

In the above equation, v is the wind speed (in m/s); ρ is the air density (in kg/m3); and Pa is the theoretically available wind potential (in w/m2). The generation of wind power depend on the wind energy conversation system and intensity of the wind in particular location. According to the above concept, approximately, 40% of the available wind power must be reached at the maximum. According to Betz's [2] limit, the maximum extractable power Pmax from a system working at its optimum efficiency is limited by a power coefficient (0.593; [2]). This capacity factor makes the maximum extractable power approximately 59.3% of the theoretical wind power [3].

Pmax=0.5932ρv3 (2)

The monitoring sites were classified based on the geographical locations and the distance from the Western ghats pass (gaps). Among the twelve monitoring locations, five locations falls in Aralvaimozhi and Senkottah pass sector (L.No S1, S4, S6, S9 and S10). The remaining seven locations falling under Palghat pass sector (L.No S2, S3, S5, S7, S8, S11 and S12). The calculated average wind speed of monitoring locations (from 2014 to 2016) is ordered as: S4 > S1 > S3 >S6 > S11 > S2 > S12 > S9 > S8 > S5 > S10 > S7. The wind energy potential (W/m2) of the monitoring locations is proportional to the wind speed, which follows the above mentioned order. According to Poje and Cividini [4], the wind energy potential of the each sites were classified based on the wind power class. Among all the monitoring locations, station 1, 2, 3, 4 were falling between wind power class 5 to 7 (Table 2). The other monitoring locations were falling between wind power class 1 to 3. The outcome of the wind power class clearly reveals that the geomorphological features like altitude of the monitoring locations and Aralvaimozhi, Senkottah and Palaghat gaps significantly affects the wind power density of the individual sites. The above assumption was observed through the regular monitoring of the wind speed, direction and power density of the monitoring stations.

Funding

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Footnotes

Appendix A

Supplementary data to this article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104291.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Appendix A. Supplementary data

The following are the Supplementary data to this article:

Dataset1

Three year Data set of Location S1

mmc1.xlsx (9.9MB, xlsx)
Dataset2

Three year Data set of Location S2

mmc2.xlsx (9.3MB, xlsx)
Dataset3

Three year Data set of Location S3

mmc3.xlsx (9.9MB, xlsx)
Dataset4

Three year Data set of Location S4

mmc4.xlsx (4.3MB, xlsx)
Dataset5

Three year Data set of Location S5

mmc5.xlsx (7.6MB, xlsx)
Dataset6

Three year Data set of Location S6

mmc6.xlsx (10.4MB, xlsx)
Dataset7

Three year Data set of Location S7

mmc7.xlsx (8MB, xlsx)
Dataset8

Three year Data set of Location S8

mmc8.xlsx (7.7MB, xlsx)
Dataset9

Three year Data set of Location S9

mmc9.xlsx (7.7MB, xlsx)
Dataset10

Three year Data set of Location S10

mmc10.xlsx (8MB, xlsx)
Dataset11

Three year Data set of Location S11

mmc11.xlsx (8.4MB, xlsx)
Dataset12

Three year Data set of Location S12

mmc12.xlsx (6.9MB, xlsx)

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Associated Data

This section collects any data citations, data availability statements, or supplementary materials included in this article.

Supplementary Materials

Dataset1

Three year Data set of Location S1

mmc1.xlsx (9.9MB, xlsx)
Dataset2

Three year Data set of Location S2

mmc2.xlsx (9.3MB, xlsx)
Dataset3

Three year Data set of Location S3

mmc3.xlsx (9.9MB, xlsx)
Dataset4

Three year Data set of Location S4

mmc4.xlsx (4.3MB, xlsx)
Dataset5

Three year Data set of Location S5

mmc5.xlsx (7.6MB, xlsx)
Dataset6

Three year Data set of Location S6

mmc6.xlsx (10.4MB, xlsx)
Dataset7

Three year Data set of Location S7

mmc7.xlsx (8MB, xlsx)
Dataset8

Three year Data set of Location S8

mmc8.xlsx (7.7MB, xlsx)
Dataset9

Three year Data set of Location S9

mmc9.xlsx (7.7MB, xlsx)
Dataset10

Three year Data set of Location S10

mmc10.xlsx (8MB, xlsx)
Dataset11

Three year Data set of Location S11

mmc11.xlsx (8.4MB, xlsx)
Dataset12

Three year Data set of Location S12

mmc12.xlsx (6.9MB, xlsx)

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