1. Implementation and Analyses of Yaw Based Coordinated Control of Wind Farms.
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Basit, Abdul, Ahsan, Muneeb, Ahmad, Tanvir, Kazemtabrizi, Behzad, Matthews, Peter C., Coupiac, Olivier, and Girard, Nicolas
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WIND power plants , *AERODYNAMICS , *COMPUTATIONAL fluid dynamics , *ENERGY storage , *GAME theory - Abstract
This paper presents, with a live field experiment, the potential of increasing wind farm power generation by optimally yawing upstream wind turbine for reducing wake effects as a part of the SmartEOLE project. Two 2MW turbines from the Le Sole de Moulin Vieux (SMV) wind farm are used for this purpose. The upstream turbine (SMV6) is operated with a yaw offset (α) in a range of − 12 ° to 8° for analysing the impact on the downstream turbine (SMV5). Simulations are performed with intelligent control strategies for estimating optimum α settings. Simulations show that optimal α can increase net production of the two turbines by more than 5%. The impact of α on SMV6 is quantified using the data obtained during the experiment. A comparison of the data obtained during the experiment is carried out with data obtained during normal operations in similar wind conditions. This comparison show that an optimum or near-optimum α increases net production by more than 5% in wake affected wind conditions, which is in confirmation with the simulated results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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