Froude theory about screw propeller turbines energy

capture and betz limit

To understand Theory Froude, the notion of momentum must be mastered, because it is
on the balance of momentum that the Froude theory is based ..
Froude method uses the equations of conservation of momentum to determine the
performance of a screw propeller viewed as a uniformly loaded disc having an infinite
number of blades. The axial induced velocities can thus beings evaluated
we set the following assumptions, according to which:
o The rotation of the flow is neglected
o The fluid is incompressible
o The flow out of the duct through the disc is undisturbed
o The pressure at infinity upstream and downstream is equal to the static
pressure
flow
o Air passes through the rotor without friction
The disc acts as a brake, opposing force T to the fluid stream. This force can be
considered as the result of the pressure diference between the upstream and downstream
of the disc.
The continuity equation tells us that, to maintain a flow even if the speed decreases
section must increase. If we observe the flow of the fluid stream passing through the disk,
so we see the section increased by the braking of the fluid..
Watch our screw propeller in a control volume larger than the vein through the propeller.
We find that the expansion of vein can only be done if a certain amount of fluid is
evacuated from the volume control..
lthe continuity equation allows us to calculate the volume removed from the control zone
per second (volume flow Q in m3/sec),
Q is the volumetric flow discharged from the volume control. From the theorem of
momentum, the thrust, T of the propeller is obtained, that is to say the variation of the
amount of movement between the sections 2 and O, whose projection on the horizontal
axis indicates thrust :
the derivative of the momentum versus time :
Momentum out "M_2" volume control in Section 2 =
Total amount of movement "M_1" within the volume control = Momentum in the volume
entry - momentum laterally Evacuated=
Therefore, the axial force of the fluid on the rotor becomes(T=M_2-M_1):
One can also express the axial force of the fluid on the rotor T, according the result of the
static pressure which is exerted on the surface of disc:
where A is the surface of the disc swept by the propeller and Dp, the pressure difference
across the disc. Using Bernoulli's equation, we obtain:
pressure difference O to 1 upstream, and:
pressure difference 2 to 1 downstream.
The static pressure difference between the upstream and downstream sides of the disk of
the propeller as the expression:
From the continuity equation: , can be derived:
and consider the speed of the flow through the disk as an arithmetic average of the
velocities upstream and downstream of the propeller:
The speed of the air flow through the rotor is the average of the two speeds upstream and
downstream of the rotor. Is called induced velocity w, increasing speed at the propeller
disk:
where "a" represents the axial interference factor.
Now, if we consider the expression: , the axial force exerted on the disc of
the impeller is:
The power extracted from the wind :
The power coefficient is defined as the ratio between the available wind power and the
power extracted:
Inserting the axial interference factor "a", defined as the fraction of the decrease in wind
speed between the free-flow upstream of the rotor and the rotor plane :
V=(1-a).V0
Using the equation: :
V1=(1-2a).V0
knowing:
substituent V and V1, is obtained :
The expression of Cp becomes
The maximum theoretical power coefficient, known as the Betz limit can be obtained by
taking the derivative of Cp versus: a=0 ,
this gives :
The maximum efficiency for an ideal turbine is approximately 59.3%. In practice, this
performance is never done because of the following effects :
The air flow has a rotating component due to the rotation of the rotor.
The drag force is never zero due to friction.
The propeller contains a finite number of blades.
This simple one-dimensional model does not describe the rotating airflow, though it sets
some basic concepts in the work of wind turbines.
So that the propeller extracts energy from the wind, the speed thereof must decrease
when passing through the propeller. An ideal machine must slow down the wind speed of
2/3.
From the continuity equation (1), the section of the air swept by the wind increases from
upstream to downstream. For an ideal wind turbine, the cross-sectional area of the flow
upstream is 2/3 that of the rotor, and the latter is half that of the downstream section.
Finally, the extraction of all available wind energy is virtually impossible, in practice, the
performance of wind turbines does not exceed 45 %.
The theory froude gives us the axial induced velocity. It will be linked to the theory of the
blade element to give a decomposition of the induced velocity in tangential and axial
induced velocities necessary for the prediction of the incidence angles and the geometry
of the blades..