Design and testing for wind turbine availability

2012 ◽  
pp. 75-98
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Design And Testing

scholarly journals Efficient preliminary floating offshore wind turbine design and testing methodologies and application to a concrete spar design

2015 ◽  
Vol 373 (2035) ◽  
pp. 20140350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Matha ◽  
Frank Sandner ◽  
Climent Molins ◽  
Alexis Campos ◽  
Po Wen Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Floating Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Testing Methodology ◽  
Cost Of Energy ◽  
Turbine Design ◽  
Design And Testing

The current key challenge in the floating offshore wind turbine industry and research is on designing economic floating systems that can compete with fixed-bottom offshore turbines in terms of levelized cost of energy. The preliminary platform design, as well as early experimental design assessments, are critical elements in the overall design process. In this contribution, a brief review of current floating offshore wind turbine platform pre-design and scaled testing methodologies is provided, with a focus on their ability to accommodate the coupled dynamic behaviour of floating offshore wind systems. The exemplary design and testing methodology for a monolithic concrete spar platform as performed within the European KIC AFOSP project is presented. Results from the experimental tests compared to numerical simulations are presented and analysed and show very good agreement for relevant basic dynamic platform properties. Extreme and fatigue loads and cost analysis of the AFOSP system confirm the viability of the presented design process. In summary, the exemplary application of the reduced design and testing methodology for AFOSP confirms that it represents a viable procedure during pre-design of floating offshore wind turbine platforms.

scholarly journals Design and Testing of a Novel Building Integrated Cross Axis Wind Turbine

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Chong ◽  
Mohammed Gwani ◽  
Chin Tan ◽  
Wan Muzammil ◽  
Sin Poh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Cross Axis ◽  
Design And Testing

scholarly journals Design and Testing of Building Integrated Hybrid Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Gwani Mohammed ◽  
Abubakar Ibrahim ◽  
Umar Mohammed Kangiwa ◽  
Joshua Benjamin Wisdom
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine ◽  
Design And Testing

Design and Testing of a New Small Wind Turbine Blade

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiyue Song ◽  
William David Lubitz
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Turbine Blade ◽  
Pitch Angle ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Wind Turbine Blade ◽  
Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine ◽  
Small Wind Turbine ◽  
High Winds ◽  
Design And Testing ◽  
Blade Pitch Angle

A small wind turbine blade was designed using blade element momentum (BEM) method for a three bladed, fixed pitch 1 kW horizontal axis wind turbine. The new blades were fabricated, fit to a Bergey XL 1.0 turbine, and tested using a vehicle-based platform at the original designed pitch angle, plus with 5 deg and 9 deg of additional pitch. The new blades had better aerodynamic performance than the original Bergey XL 1.0 blades at high speed, but in some cases at lower speeds the original blades performed better. The results demonstrated that selecting the blade pitch angle on a rotor is a tradeoff between starting performance and power output in high winds. The BEM simulations were evaluated against the test data and demonstrated that the BEM simulations predicted the rotor performance with reasonable accuracy.

scholarly journals Software-in-the-Loop Simulation of a Gas-Engine for the Design and Testing of a Wind Turbine Emulator

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 2898
Author(s):  
Alexander Rohr ◽  
Clemens Jauch
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Frequency Converter ◽  
Reference Signal ◽  
Grid Integration ◽  
Loop Model ◽  
Gas Engine ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Converter Unit ◽  
Engine Components ◽  
Design And Testing

In order to investigate the grid integration of wind turbines (WT) of various scales and designs, a wind turbine emulator (WTE) is being built in Flensburg within the state-funded project GrinSH. The special feature of this WTE is the use of a large gas engine instead of an electric motor to emulate the behavior of a WT. In order to develop the controls of this innovative WTE and to design the upcoming test runs under safe conditions, a software in the loop model (SILM) was applied. This SILM contained a mathematical model of the wind turbine, mathematical models of the gas engine with an integrated controller, and a model of the generator and frequency converter unit, as well as a preventive modulator of the reference signal (PMRS). The PMRS module converts the reference signal of the emulated WT in such a way that the dynamics of the engine components can be calculated and balanced in advance to enable the required behavior of the entire SILM despite the dynamics of the gas engine. It was found that the PMRS module, developed and tested in this work, increased the ability of the WTE, based on a gas engine, to reproduce the dynamics of a WT.

Design and Testing of Low-Speed Wind Turbine Blade

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. S. Amano ◽  
R. J. Malloy
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Pid Controller ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Potential Candidate ◽  
Efficient Energy ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Tunnel Model ◽  
Low Wind Speeds ◽  
Design And Testing

There is a need for clean, cheap, and efficient energy. One potential candidate for a source of this energy is a wind energy. In order to maximize the amount of energy captured, a new, low airspeed wind turbines must be designed. A wind turbine was created using the NACA 4412 foil shape and a decreasing chord length with increasing distance from the center of the turbine. The angle of attack was also varied. The airfoil was analyzed in CFD and tested via wind tunnel model. The turbine was connected to a motor which was connected to a resistor and current and voltage meters. Using the voltage and current data at a prescribed rate of rotation, the power generated was calculated. Despite the shortcomings of the model, decent power output was generated. Since the wind tunnel could only perform up to 5 ft/s (or 3.4 mph), this shows that the turbine is acceptable for low wind speeds. For practical use the turbine would need to be scaled to a greater size and a PID controller that can generate higher resistance would need to be employed.

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