Client:
Client is a leader in the renewable energy industry in Wind and Solar, working to provide the world's best offshore/onshore wind turbines.
Why APA?
APA team is highly experienced in performing conjugate heat transfer simulations using computational fluid dynamics technology for steady state and turbulent flow problems.
Scope:
The scope of work is to perform computational fluid dynamics analysis for 1500V inverter room and study the temperature distribution and ensure the average temperature rise (ΔT) ≤ 5˚C while the site ambient temperature is 50˚C.
Simulation Process:
- ● Geometric clean-up of the inverter converter package along with Fan and porous media region
- ● Creation of CFD domain & mesh for inverter converter package with very fine mesh to accurately capture the boundary layer effect
- ● Setting up SST K-Omega Turbulence Model
- ● Modelling of Solar Radiation with Heat flux boundary conditions on walls
- ● Predicting the baseline design’s performance parameters such as flow pattern, velocity vectors, velocity and temperature contours
- ● Calculating Volumetric average temperature of the inverter room
- ● Perform simulation for the proposed duct layout and optimize of the Duct opening size to arrive at the desired reduction of Volumetric average temperature
- ● Determine whether the average pressure drop inside the inverter room is within the acceptable limit
- ● Tabulation of inverter Room inlet & outlet air handling summary
- ● Optimised the duct opening size to achieve the target volumetric average temperature target
- ● Presented the report with useful insights to get the certification from well renowned third-party consultancy
Temperature distribution across the container
Inverter panel Temperature distribution
Velocity profile for a invertor Zone
Ducting to reduce the temperature inside the container
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