Smart wind turbine three-layers flat blade with control system Arduino-based for blade angle

The article presents the results of research into the operation of a model of a wind micropower plant with a variable blade angle. The research was carried out on a miniature model of a measuring stand built for the purpose of carrying out work on pre-developed projects of wind micro power plants. The stand allows to carry out measurements related to the selection of the optimal propeller geometry, as well as the development and testing of algorithms for optimal control of the micropower plant. The physical basics of wind turbine operation and the methods of its optimal control are presented. The results of the performed measurements for the selected propeller blade geometry with the possibility of changing its setting angle are presented. A DC generator with a load with a non-linear characteristic in the form of a Li-Po battery cell was used. The results of operation of a simple MPPT control algorithm are presented. The lack of optimal control systems for the operation of micropower plants is dictated by the general belief that the costs of its production are high in relation to the possible improvement of the efficiency of micropower plants. Moreover, the practical methods of controlling larger wind turbines are not optimal for small and very small turbines. The conducted research focused on determining the possibility of using turbines with variable blade angles depending on its rotational speed. In larger wind farms, changing the blade angle is mainly used to limit the power of the turbine at high wind speeds. In micro wind power plants such solutions are not used for economic reasons. However, the use of a simple mechanism for changing the angle of the blades depending on the rotational speed of the propeller can increase the efficiency of the turbine in a wider range of wind speeds. The small dimensions of the research model allow for quick and cheap development of preliminary prototypes of turbine blades thanks to the possibility of using 3D printing technology.

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Design Study of Multi-Rotor and Multi-Generator Wind Turbine with Lattice Tower—A Mechatronic Approach

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app112211043 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (22) ◽

pp. 11043

Author(s):

Urs Giger ◽

Stefan Kleinhansl ◽

Horst Schulte

Keyword(s):

Control System ◽

Wind Energy ◽

Wind Turbine ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Mountainous Areas ◽

Rotor Drive ◽

New Locations ◽

Lattice Tower ◽

Generator Design ◽

Installed Capacity

New locations for onshore technology, which have not been considered so far, must be developed to increase the total installed capacity of renewable energies, especially wind energy. For this purpose, cost-effective wind turbines, even in difficult-to-access locations, such as mountainous and high-mountainous areas, must be designed. This paper presents a novel wind turbine with a related control system that meets these requirements. The proposed turbine uses a multi-rotor configuration with five rotors arranged in a star shape configuration. Each rotor drive train combines up to 12 generators in a maintenance-friendly multi-generator concept. A suitable observer-based control for load mitigation in the full-load region is proposed for the multi-rotor and multi-generator design. Simulations are used to demonstrate the applicability and practical benefits of this concept.

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Control system for a wind turbine driven self excited asynchronous generator

10.1109/melcon.1989.49990 ◽

2003 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P.G. Casielles ◽

J. Sanz ◽

J. Pascual

Keyword(s):

Control System ◽

Wind Turbine ◽

Asynchronous Generator

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Design of a Mechanical Power Circulation Test Rig for a Wind Turbine Gearbox

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app10093240 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (9) ◽

pp. 3240

Author(s):

Geun-Ho Lee ◽

Young-Jun Park ◽

Ju-Seok Nam ◽

Joo-Young Oh ◽

Jeong-Gil Kim

Keyword(s):

Control System ◽

Wind Turbine ◽

Mechanical Power ◽

Hydraulic Control ◽

Test Rig ◽

Wind Turbine Gearbox ◽

Planetary Gearbox ◽

Bearing Life ◽

And Control ◽

Hydraulic Control System

We developed a mechanical power circulation test rig for a wind turbine gearbox with a power rating of 5.8 MW or less. The test rig consists of an electric motor, two auxiliary gearboxes, a torque-applying device, lubrication systems, cooling systems, and control systems. The torque generating device consists of a planetary gearbox and a hydraulic control system and is used to apply the desired torque to the test gearbox. The hydraulic control system applies the torque on the ring gear of the planetary gearbox. The gears and bearings of the two auxiliary gearboxes and planetary gearboxes met the design criteria for a safety factor of over 1.2 and a bearing life of 30,000 h. In addition, the master and slave gearboxes were connected to the test rig to verify whether the torque-applying device had applied variable torque in real-time during the test. The device was only able to induce a variable torque of up to 45.2 kN-m due to the limitation of the rated torque of the master and slave gearboxes. The test rig can test not only efficiency, vibration, and noise but also durability and overloading.

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C35 Performance of 3kW Wind Turbine Generator with Variable Pitch Control System

The Proceedings of Conference of Kyushu Branch ◽

10.1299/jsmekyushu.2006.59.89 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 2006.59 (0) ◽

pp. 89-90

Author(s):

Minoru NAGAI ◽

Kazumasa AMEKU ◽

Tadayuki YAMADA ◽

Yuji YAMASAKI

Keyword(s):

Control System ◽

Wind Turbine ◽

Turbine Generator ◽

Variable Pitch ◽

Wind Turbine Generator ◽

Pitch Control ◽

Variable Pitch Control

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Development of Hybrid Blade Angle Control System for Traversing Wind Turbines

IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society ◽

10.1109/iecon.2018.8592723 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Tomonobu Furuta ◽

Hiroyuki Kawai ◽

Masato Okamoto ◽

Kenji Kubomura

Keyword(s):

Control System ◽

Wind Turbines ◽

Blade Angle

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Development of Hardware-in-the-Loop-Simulation Testbed for Pitch Control System Performance Test

Energies ◽

10.3390/en12102031 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (10) ◽

pp. 2031

Author(s):

Jongmin Cheon ◽

Jinwook Kim ◽

Joohoon Lee ◽

Kichang Lee ◽

Youngkiu Choi

Keyword(s):

Control System ◽

Wind Speed ◽

Wind Turbine ◽

Wind Shear ◽

Performance Test ◽

Control Function ◽

Hardware In The Loop ◽

Rotor Speed ◽

Test Bed ◽

Pitch Control

This paper deals with the development of a wind turbine pitch control system and the construction of a Hardware-in-the-Loop-Simulation (HILS) testbed for the performance test of the pitch control system. When the wind speed exceeds the rated wind speed, the wind turbine pitch controller adjusts the blade pitch angles collectively to ensure that the rotor speed maintains the rated rotor speed. The pitch controller with the individual pitch control function can add individual pitch angles into the collective pitch angles to reduce the mechanical load applied to the blade periodically due to wind shear. Large wind turbines often experience mechanical loads caused by wind shear phenomena. To verify the performance of the pitch control system before applying it to an actual wind turbine, the pitch control system is tested on the HILS testbed, which acts like an actual wind turbine system. The testbed for evaluating the developed pitch control system consists of the pitch control system, a real-time unit for simulating the wind and the operations of the wind turbine, an operational computer with a human–machine interface, a load system for simulating the actual wind load applied to each blade, and a real pitch bearing. Through the several tests based on HILS test bed, how well the pitch controller performed the given roles for each area in the entire wind speed area from cut-in to cut-out wind speed can be shown.

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