scholarly journals Experimental Validation of a Hydrostatic Transmission for Community Wind Turbines

Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 376
Author(s):  
Biswaranjan Mohanty ◽  
Kim A. Stelson
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Pressure Control ◽  
Speed Ratio ◽  
Hydrostatic Transmission ◽  
Design Flexibility ◽  
Power Capture ◽  
Displacement Pump ◽  
Variable Displacement ◽  
Hydrostatic Transmissions

Hydrostatic transmissions are commonly used in heavy-duty equipment for their design flexibility and superior power density. Compared to a conventional wind turbine transmission, a hydrostatic transmission (HST) is a lighter, more reliable, cheaper, continuously variable alternative for a wind turbine. In this paper, for the first time, a validated dynamical model and controlled experiment have been used to analyze the performance of a hydrostatic transmission with a fixed-displacement pump and a variable-displacement motor for community wind turbines. From the dynamics of the HST, a pressure control strategy is designed to maximize the power capture. A hardware-in-the-loop simulation is developed to experimentally validate the performance and efficiency of the HST drive train control in a 60 kW virtual wind turbine environment. The HST turbine is extensively evaluated under steady and time-varying wind on a state-of-the-art power regenerative hydrostatic dynamometer. The proposed controller tracks the optimal tip-speed ratio to maximize power capture.

scholarly journals Power-Split Hydrostatic Transmissions for Wind Energy Systems

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Bottiglione ◽  
Giacomo Mantriota ◽  
Marco Valle
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Turbine Rotor ◽  
Continuously Variable Transmission ◽  
Speed Ratio ◽  
Electric Generator ◽  
Hydrostatic Transmission ◽  
Power Split ◽  
Variable Transmission ◽  
Hydrostatic Transmissions ◽  
The One

In a wind turbine, if a continuously variable transmission is placed between the turbine rotor and the generator, the speed ratio can be tuned to match the variable rotor speed to the constant speed of the electric generator, thus eliminating the need to adapt the frequency to the grid. In this paper, power-split hydrostatic transmission (PS-HTS) architecture is proposed as a suitable continuously variable transmission for application to wind turbine systems. The performance of PS-HTS is modelled and compared with that of previously proposed architectures in which the hydrostatic transmission is placed in-line with traditional drives (in-line HTS). It is shown here that the PS-HTS can improve the annual energy production of a 250 kW rated power wind turbine of about 10–11% by employing a hydrostatic transmission with one-seventh the size of the one requested by in-line HTS architecture.

Robust Nonlinear Control of a Novel Indexing Valve Plate Pump: Simulation Studies

2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Zhang ◽  
S. S. Nair ◽  
N. D. Manring
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Control ◽  
Plate Motion ◽  
Nonlinear Simulation ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
Model Free ◽  
Swash Plate ◽  
Displacement Pump ◽  
Variable Displacement ◽  
Robust Adaptive ◽  
Improved Performance

A robust adaptive pressure control strategy is proposed for a novel indexing variable-displacement pump. In the proposed approach, parametric uncertainties and unmodeled dynamics are identified to the extent possible using a model free learning network and used to decouple the dynamics using physical insights derived from careful reduced order modeling. The swash plate motion control is then carefully designed to provide the desired pressure response characteristics showing improved performance with learning. The proposed control framework and designs are validated using a detailed nonlinear simulation model.

scholarly journals Numerical Simulation and Wind Tunnel Investigation on Static Characteristics of VAWT Rotor Starter with Lift-Drag Combined Structure

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 6167
Author(s):  
Fang Feng ◽  
Guoqiang Tong ◽  
Yunfei Ma ◽  
Yan Li
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Wind Speed ◽  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Speed Ratio ◽  
Static Characteristics ◽  
Torque Coefficient ◽  
Starting Characteristics ◽  
Static Torque

In order to get rid of the impact of the global financial crisis and actively respond to global climate change, it has become a common choice for global economic development to develop clean energy such as wind energy, improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With the advantages of simple structure, unnecessary facing the wind direction, and unique appearance, the vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) attracts extensive attention in the field of small and medium wind turbines. The lift-type VAWT exhibits outstanding aerodynamic characteristics at a high tip speed ratio, while the starting characteristics are generally undesirable at a low wind speed; thus, how to improve the starting characteristics of the lift-type VAWT has always been an important issue. In this paper, a lift-drag combined starter (LDCS) suitable for lift-type VAWT was proposed to optimize the starting characteristics of lift-type VAWT. With semi-elliptical drag blades and lift blades equipped on the middle and rear part outside the starter, the structure is characterized by lift-drag combination, weakening the adverse effect of the starter with semi-elliptical drag blades alone on the output performance of the original lift-type VAWT and improving the characteristics of the lift-drag combined VAWT. The static characteristic is one of the important starting characteristics of the wind turbine. The rapid development of computational fluid dynamics has laid a solid material foundation for VAWT. Thus the static characteristics of the LDCS with different numbers of blades were investigated by conducting numerical simulation and wind tunnel tests. The results demonstrated that the static torque coefficient of LDCS increased significantly with the increased incoming wind speed. The average value of the static torque coefficient also increased significantly. This study can provide guidelines for the research of lift-drag combined wind turbines.

Effect of Slotted Angle on Savonius Wind Turbine Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Rahmat Wahyudi ◽  
Diniar Mungil Kurniawati ◽  
Alfian Djafar
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Speed Ratio ◽  
Angle Variation ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Turbine Performance ◽  
Savonius Wind Turbine ◽  
Low Wind Speeds

The potential of wind energy is very abundant but its utilization is still low. The effort to utilize wind energy is to utilize wind energy into electrical energy using wind turbines. Savonius wind turbines have a very simple shape and construction, are inexpensive, and can be used at low wind speeds. This research aims to determine the effect of the slot angle on the slotted blades configuration on the performance produced by Savonius wind turbines. Slot angle variations used are 5o ,10o , and 15o with slotted blades 30% at wind speeds of 2,23 m/s to 4,7 m/s using wind tunnel. The result showed that a small slot angle variation of 5o produced better wind turbine performance compared to a standard blade at low wind speeds and a low tip speed ratio.

Improvement in Savonius Wind Turbines Efficiency by Modification of Blade Designs—A Numerical Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Praveen Laws ◽  
Jaskaran Singh Saini ◽  
Ajit Kumar ◽  
Santanu Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Power Efficiency ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Speed Ratio ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Blade Design ◽  
Simple Modification ◽  
Mesh Structure ◽  
Flow Equations

Abstract Savonius wind turbines are special class of vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). These are low-cost drag-driven turbines and are known to be inefficient. It is proposed in this study that a simple modification to the turbine blade design can yield a significant improvement in power efficiency. The performance of the new design is extensively studied on openfoam-v1812, a popular open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) library. The flow equations coupled with equations of rotation of the turbine are solved on an overset mesh framework. This study also serves as a validation of recently released overset support in openfoam. The turbulence is incorporated by coupling Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) with shear stress transport (SST) κ − ω eddy viscosity turbulence model. The turbulence parameters are set to produce a flow with the Reynolds number, Re = 4.8 × 105. To have better confidence in simulations, this study also presents a comparison of numerical flow over conventional Savonius turbine designs with the published data. It is observed that a majority of CFD analysis on wind turbine designs are performed for the fixed tip speed ratio on a traditional static mesh structure. But, in this CFD study, a wind-driven rotation of Savonius turbine is simulated on an overset dynamics approach. The results of the study are compared and discussed based on the predicted moment and power coefficients, pressure variation on the blades, flow velocity field, and wake analysis. The study indicates that the blade design presented here has a potential to increase the power efficiency of a Savonius wind turbine by 10–28%.

Prediction of Aerodynamic Noise Radiated From a Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akiyoshi Iida ◽  
Akisato Mizuno ◽  
Kyoji Kamemoto
Keyword(s):  
Flow Field ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Sound Source ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Aerodynamic Performance ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Aerodynamic Noise ◽  
Speed Ratio ◽  
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

Unsteady flow field and flow induced noise of vertical axis wind turbine are numerically investigated. The flow field is numerically calculated by the vortex method with core-spreading model. This simulation obtains aerodynamic performance and aerodynamic forces. Aerodynamic noise is also simulated by using Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings equation with compact body and low-Mach number assumptions. Tip speed of rotor blades are not so high, then the contribution of the moving sound source is smaller than that of the dipole sound source. Since the maximum power coefficient of VAWT can be obtained at lower tip-speed ratio compared to the conventional, horizontal axis wind turbines, the aerodynamic noise from vertical axis wind turbine is smaller than that of the conventional wind turbines at the same aerodynamic performance. This result indicates that the vertical axis wind turbines are useful to develop low-noise wind turbines.

Using Extremum Seeking Control to Improve the Power Capture of Midsize Hydrostatic Wind Turbines

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Escobar-Naranjo ◽  
Biswaranjan Mohanty ◽  
Kim A. Stelson
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Control ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Torque Control ◽  
Extremum Seeking ◽  
Extremum Seeking Control ◽  
Model Free ◽  
Point Tracking ◽  
Power Capture

Abstract Adaptive control strategies are commonly used for systems that change over time, such as wind turbines. Extremum Seeking Control (ESC) is a model-free real-time adaptive control strategy commonly used in conventional gearbox wind turbines for Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT). ESC optimizes the rotor power by constantly tuning the torque control gain (k) when operating below rated power. The same concept can be applied for hydrostatic wind turbines. This paper studies the use of ESC for a 60-kW hydrostatic wind turbine. First, a systematic approach to establish the ideal ESC is shown. Second, a comparison of the power capture performance of ESC versus the conventional torque control law (the kω2 law) is shown. The simulations include a timesharing power capture coefficient (Cp) to clearly show the advantages of using ESC. Studies under steady and realistic wind conditions show the main advantages of using ESC for a hydrostatic wind turbine.

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