A tutorial on control-oriented modeling and control of wind farms

Conference paper (2017)

Authors

S. Boersma Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
B.M. Doekemeijer Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
P.M.O. Gebraad Siemens Wind Power
PA Fleming National Renewable Energy Laboratory
J. Annoni National Renewable Energy Laboratory
AK Scholbrock National Renewable Energy Laboratory
J.A. Frederik Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
J.W. van Wingerden Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
Research Group
Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2017

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Delft Center for Systems and Control

Research Group

Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden

Abstract

Wind turbines are often sited together in wind farms as it is economically advantageous. However, the wake inevitably created by every turbine will lead to a time-varying interaction between the individual turbines. Common practice in industry has been to control turbines individually and ignore this interaction while optimizing the power and loads of the individual turbines. However, turbines that are in a wake experience reduced wind speed and increased turbulence, leading to a reduced energy extraction and increased dynamic mechanical loads on the turbine, respectively. Neglecting the dynamic interaction between turbines in control will therefore lead to suboptimal behaviour of the total wind farm. Therefore, wind farm control has been receiving an increasing amount of attention over the past years, with the focus on increasing the total power production and reducing the dynamic loading on the turbines. In this paper, wind farm control-oriented modeling and control concepts are explained. In addition, recent developments and literature are discussed and categorized. This paper can serve as a source of background information and provides many references regarding control-oriented modeling and control of wind farms.

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