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Ottenheym, Joris (author)The placement of wind turbines in wind farms is economically beneficial to the industry. Consequently, the wake generated by the upstream turbines introduces interactions with downstream turbines that significantly affect power generation. However, it is common practice to control the individual turbines to operate at their optimal settings and...master thesis 2023
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Gonzalez Silva, J. (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)As renewable energy sources such as wind farms become dominant, new challenges emerge for operating and controlling them. Traditionally, wind farm control aims to dispatch power set-points to individual turbines to maximize energy extraction and, thus, their usage as assets. Yet, grid balance and frequency support are fundamental in presence...journal article 2023
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Kerssemakers, Daan (author)To accelerate the growth of offshore wind power, its Levelised Cost Of Energy (LCOE) must be reduced. A means of reducing the LCOE of offshore wind power is by mitigating the adverse wake effect by employing Wind Farm Control (WFC) for power maximization. A recent WFC technology is the helix approach, which uses Individual Pitch Control (IPC) to...master thesis 2022
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Huang, Louis (author)The development of offshore wind technology has progressed rapidly since the first offshore wind farm came to birth in 1991. During the last three decades, offshore wind has become an economically attractive option of renewable energy source for many countries to fulfill their commitment to combat the climate crisis. However, an open challenge...master thesis 2022
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Becker, M. (author), Allaerts, D.J.N. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Wind farm control methods allow for a more flexible use of wind power plants over the baseline operation. They can be used to increase the power generated, to track a reference power signal or to reduce structural loads on a farm-wide level. Model-based control strategies have the advantage that prior knowledge can be included, for instance by...journal article 2022
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Frederik, J.A. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)In recent studies, the effectiveness of different so-called wake mixing strategies has been assessed in terms of wind farm power maximization. These studies show that by dynamically varying the pitch angles of a wind turbine, wake mixing can be enhanced to increase the overall power production of a wind farm. However, such strategies also...journal article 2022
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de Boer, Emiel (author)To meet current renewable energy demands, there is a major increase in global wind power capacity. Wind turbines are commonly clustered in wind farms. When operating, wind turbines extract energy from the wind, creating a region characterized by a low velocity, called the wake. The wake negatively impacts the power production of downstream wind...master thesis 2021
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Frederik, J.A. (author)The dissertation discusses different wind turbine control strategies that use pitch actuation to decrease the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) of wind farms. This is achieved by either mitigating the loads experienced by individual turbines, or by enhancing wake mixing in turbines located within a wind farm. The latter strategy exploits the fact...doctoral thesis 2021
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van Beek, Maarten T. (author), Viré, A.C. (author), Andersen, Søren J. (author)Wind farms experience significant efficiency losses due to the aerodynamic interaction between turbines. A possible control technique to minimize these losses is yaw-based wake steering. This paper investigates the potential for improved performance of the Lillgrund wind farm through a detailed calibration of a low-fidelity engineering model...journal article 2021
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Doekemeijer, B.M. (author)Open-loop wake steering inconsistently improves the energy yield of wind farms in field experiments in the literature. This thesis matures wind farm control technologies for power maximization in a model-based closed-loop framework towards real-world practical applicability. Firstly, open-loop wake steering is evaluated on a commercial onshore...doctoral thesis 2020
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Rajasekaran, N. (author)The power generated from wind is not synchronized to the electrical frequency of the power grid. Grid balancing services must be assured when the output from a wind farm is integrated into the electrical grid to avoid the risk of blackouts.<b> Active Power Control (APC)</b> methods are employed to provide grid balancing ancillary services such...master thesis 2020
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Groenenberg, D. (author), Beijnen, L.F.E. (author)Increase in wind- and solar parks complicate grid stability due to their deterministic behaviour. ENTSO-E established requirements for generators for grid connection in Europe. A requirement is to have active- and reactive power control that implements a power setpoint given by the transmission system operator. This thesis describes the design...bachelor thesis 2020
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Doekemeijer, B.M. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Wind farm control (WFC) algorithms rely on an estimate of the ambient wind speed, wind direction, and turbulence intensity in the determination of the optimal control setpoints. However, the measurements available in a commercial wind farm do not always carry sufficient information to estimate these atmospheric quantities. In this paper, a...journal article 2020
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Cassamo, Nassir (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)The high dimensions and governing non-linear dynamics in wind farm systems make the design of numerical optimal controllers computationally expensive. A possible pathway to circumvent this challenge lies in finding reduced order models which can accurately embed the existing non-linearities. The work presented here applies the ideas motivated...journal article 2020
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Doekemeijer, B.M. (author), van der Hoek, D.C. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Wind farm (WF) controllers adjust the control settings of individual turbines to enhance the total performance of a wind farm. Most WF controllers proposed in the literature assume a time-invariant inflow, whereas important quantities such as the wind direction and speed continuously change over time in reality. Furthermore, properties of the...journal article 2020
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Frederik, J.A. (author), Doekemeijer, B.M. (author), Mulders, S.P. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Wind farm control using dynamic concepts is a research topic that is receiving an increasing amount of interest. The main concept of this approach is that dynamic variations of the wind turbine control settings lead to higher wake turbulence, and subsequently faster wake recovery due to increased mixing. As a result, downstream turbines...journal article 2020
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Tagliatti, Federico (author)Wind energy is one of the most promising sources of renewable energy and has experienced a very rapid growth in the last 15 years. In order to maintain and sustain this growth wind energy needs to be competitive with the other sources of energy, especially with fossil fuels. A major factor keeping the competitiveness of wind energy is the...master thesis 2019
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Boersma, S. (author), Doekemeijer, B.M. (author), Siniscalchi-Minna, S. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Active power control for wind farms is needed to provide ancillary services. One of these services is to track a power reference signal with a wind farm by dynamically de- and uprating the turbines. In this paper we present a closed-loop wind farm controller that evaluates 1) thrust coefficients on a seconds-scale that provide power tracking...journal article 2019
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Suresh Kumar, Nivas Kumar (author)In research, the overall power production in a wind farm is typically increased by employing model-based wind farm control. A controller, in an open-loop setting, operates based on the velocity of the wind flow, predicted by a wind farm model. For a controller to achieve the desired level of power production, a wind farm model has to be accurate...master thesis 2018
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Frederik, J.A. (author)Renewable energy is becoming more and more important in today's society. Wind energy plays an important role in the production of renewable energy. Due to economic advantages, wind turbines are often sited close together, creating wind farms. As a result, the wind turbines in the farm become interconnected due to the wakes of the turbines. In...master thesis 2017
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