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Justus, C.G., Hargraves, W.R., Mikhail, A. and Graber, D. (1977) Methods for Estimating Wind Speed Frequency Distributions. School of Aerospace Engineers, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

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• TITLE: Application of the Weibull Distribution to Estimate the Volume of Water Pumping by a Windmill

  AUTHORS: M. Toledo Velázquez, J. Hernández Rodríguez, M. Vega Del Carmen, F. E. Flores Murrieta, G. Tolentino Eslava

  KEYWORDS: Pumping Systems, Weibull Distribution, Wind Energy, Windmill

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, Vol.4 No.9, September 13, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Given the steady increase in use of alternative energy sources to supply part of the energy demand of the world, and considering that Mexico has enough wind resources to produce all the electricity required by the country, in this work, it is carried out the development of a system of wind resource assessment to determine the volume of water that a windmill pumping system can provide in a specific area. To this end, it has developed a computer program for wind resource assessment by measurements of wind speed, direction, temperature, barometric pressure and relative humidity. Measuring equipments were mounted in a wind measurement tower of 10 m high, within the premises of the University of Quintana Roo which is located along the coast. Until this day, there are records over a period of five months of the variables of wind speed, wind direction, temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure. These variables were used for statistical calculations using the Weibull distributions. To give a better use of the calculated data, they were applied to the evaluation of a Pumping System.