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This document contains instructions for an assignment involving 5 questions about renewable energy systems. Students are instructed to show their work, submit answers scanned or as a PDF, and to avoid plagiarism which would result in a zero score. The questions calculate payback periods for wind and solar installations, efficiency of solar cells and wind turbines based on given parameters, and electricity generation from burning municipal solid waste in a boiler.

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Assignment No. 9

This document contains instructions for an assignment involving 5 questions about renewable energy systems. Students are instructed to show their work, submit answers scanned or as a PDF, and to avoid plagiarism which would result in a zero score. The questions calculate payback periods for wind and solar installations, efficiency of solar cells and wind turbines based on given parameters, and electricity generation from burning municipal solid waste in a boiler.

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Name:_______________________________ Course & Year: _____________

Assignment no. 9
SHOW YOUR SOLUTION
Instruction: Answer the questions correctly and it must be eligible. Upon submission kindly scan your
answers or compile the picture of your answer and convert it to pdf format. Please avoid cheating or
reduplication of your answers from your classmate or else your score will be zero.

1. An investor is at install a total of 40 identical wind turbines in a location with an average wind speed
of 7.2 m/s. The blade diameter of each turbine is 18 m and the average overall wind turbine
efficiency is 33 percent. The turbines are expected to operate under these average conditions 6000
hours a year and the electricity is to be sold to local utility at a price of $0.075/kWh. If the total cost
of this installation is $1,200,000, determine how long it will take for these turbines to pay for
themselves. Take the density of air to be 1.18 kg/m3 .
2. A homeowner decides to install photovoltaic cell system on the roof of his house to meet the
electricity needs of the house. The capacity of the solar system is 6 kW and the cost of solar cells
is $1.3/W. If the houseowner currently pays an average of $125 for the electricity per month,
determine how long it will take for the photovoltaic system to pay for itself. Assume the homeowner
can meet approximately 80 percent of the electricity needs of the house by the solar system.
3. In a solar cell, the load voltage is 0.5 V and the load current density is determined to be 80 A/m2 .
If the solar irradiation is 650 W/m2 , the cell efficiency is
4. The turbine blade diameter is 35 m. The air is at 95 kPa and 208C. If the power output from the
turbine is 115 kW, the efficiency of the turbine is
5. 10 tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) is burned directly in a boiler to generate saturated steam at
2008C. Water enters the boiler at 208C. The heating value of MSW is 18,000 kJ/kg and the boiler
efficiency is 75 percent. Determine the amount of steam generated. The generated steam is run
through a turbine-generator unit to generate electricity. The steam pressure at the turbine exit is
100 kPa. If the turbine isentropic efficiency is 85 percent and the generator efficiency is 95 percent,
determine the amount of electricity produced. How much revenue can be generated if the electricity
is sold at a price of $0.11/kWh?

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