Comparison of Levelized Cost of Energy of a 10 MW superconducting and magnetic pseudo direct drive generator targeted for the INNWIND.EU reference turbine
Asger Bech Abrahamsen (Technical University of Denmark (DTU))
D. Liu (TU Delft - DC systems, Energy conversion & Storage)
Niklas Magnusson (SINTEF)
A Thomas (Siemens Wind Power)
Ziad Azar (Siemens Wind Power)
Ewoud Stehouwer (DNV-GL)
E Hendriks (Knowledge Centre WMC)
A. Penzkofer (University of Sheffield)
K Atallah (University of Sheffield)
R.R. Dragan (Magnomatics)
R.E. Clark (Magnomatics)
F. Deng (Aalborg University)
Z. Chen (Aalborg University)
D. Karwatzki (Leibniz Universität)
A. Mertens (Leibniz Universität)
M. Parker (University of Strathclyde)
Stephen J. Finney (University of Strathclyde)
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Abstract
Innovative drive trains targeted at 10-20 MW offshore turbines are investigated in the INNWIND.EU project in order to determine the impact on the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) resulting when installed in the ,North sea at 50 m of water [1]. The two main technologies studied are superconducting direct drive (SCDD)[2] and the magnetic pseudo direct drive (PDD) [3] generators, which are both capable to providing compact drive trains with low weight and a small number of moving parts compared to a gearbox based drive train (see figure 1a). Superconducting field coils are used to provide the torque in the direct drive generators, where the armature windings are based on conventional copper wire and magnetic steel laminates operated at ambient temperature. Magnetic pseudo direct drive generators consist of a magnetic gearbox made of an inner free rotor (rotating at a geared up speed to the blade input) and an intermediate drive rotor inserted into an outer static armature winding, where the electricity is harvested.