Surrogate Modeling and Aeroelastic Analysis of a Wind Turbine with Down-Regulation, Power Boosting, and IBC Capabilities
As the maturity and complexity of wind energy systems increase, the operation of wind turbines in wind farms needs to be adjustable in order to provide flexibility to the grid operators and optimize operations through wind farm control. An important aspect of this is monitoring and managing the stru...
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| description | As the maturity and complexity of wind energy systems increase, the operation of wind turbines in wind farms needs to be adjustable in order to provide flexibility to the grid operators and optimize operations through wind farm control. An important aspect of this is monitoring and managing the structural reliability of the wind turbines in terms of fatigue loading. Additionally, in order to perform optimization, uncertainty analyses, condition monitoring, and other tasks, fast and accurate models of the turbine response are required. To address these challenges, we present the controller tuning and surrogate modeling for a wind turbine that is able to vary its power level in both down-regulation and power-boosting modes, as well as reducing loads with an individual blade control loop. Two methods to derive the setpoints for down-regulation are discussed and implemented. The response of the turbine, in terms of loads, power, and other metrics, for relevant operating conditions and for all control modes is captured by a data-driven surrogate model based on aeroelastic simulations following two regression approaches: a spline-based interpolation and a Gaussian process regression model. The uncertainty of the surrogate models is quantified, showing a good agreement with the simulation with a mean absolute error lower than 4% for all quantities considered. Based on the surrogate model, the aeroelastic response of the entire wind turbine for the different control modes and their combination is analyzed to shed light on the implications of the control strategies on the fatigue loading of the various components. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ecde36982a6e4efc95ed6519f3abe2a32024-03-27T13:35:20ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732024-03-01176128410.3390/en17061284Surrogate Modeling and Aeroelastic Analysis of a Wind Turbine with Down-Regulation, Power Boosting, and IBC CapabilitiesVasilis Pettas0Po Wen Cheng1Stuttgart Wind Energy (SWE), University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, GermanyStuttgart Wind Energy (SWE), University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, GermanyAs the maturity and complexity of wind energy systems increase, the operation of wind turbines in wind farms needs to be adjustable in order to provide flexibility to the grid operators and optimize operations through wind farm control. An important aspect of this is monitoring and managing the structural reliability of the wind turbines in terms of fatigue loading. Additionally, in order to perform optimization, uncertainty analyses, condition monitoring, and other tasks, fast and accurate models of the turbine response are required. To address these challenges, we present the controller tuning and surrogate modeling for a wind turbine that is able to vary its power level in both down-regulation and power-boosting modes, as well as reducing loads with an individual blade control loop. Two methods to derive the setpoints for down-regulation are discussed and implemented. The response of the turbine, in terms of loads, power, and other metrics, for relevant operating conditions and for all control modes is captured by a data-driven surrogate model based on aeroelastic simulations following two regression approaches: a spline-based interpolation and a Gaussian process regression model. The uncertainty of the surrogate models is quantified, showing a good agreement with the simulation with a mean absolute error lower than 4% for all quantities considered. Based on the surrogate model, the aeroelastic response of the entire wind turbine for the different control modes and their combination is analyzed to shed light on the implications of the control strategies on the fatigue loading of the various components.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/6/1284wind turbine controlsurrogate modelingloads and control of wind turbines |
| spellingShingle | Vasilis Pettas Po Wen Cheng Surrogate Modeling and Aeroelastic Analysis of a Wind Turbine with Down-Regulation, Power Boosting, and IBC Capabilities Energies wind turbine control surrogate modeling loads and control of wind turbines |
| title | Surrogate Modeling and Aeroelastic Analysis of a Wind Turbine with Down-Regulation, Power Boosting, and IBC Capabilities |
| title_full | Surrogate Modeling and Aeroelastic Analysis of a Wind Turbine with Down-Regulation, Power Boosting, and IBC Capabilities |
| title_fullStr | Surrogate Modeling and Aeroelastic Analysis of a Wind Turbine with Down-Regulation, Power Boosting, and IBC Capabilities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Surrogate Modeling and Aeroelastic Analysis of a Wind Turbine with Down-Regulation, Power Boosting, and IBC Capabilities |
| title_short | Surrogate Modeling and Aeroelastic Analysis of a Wind Turbine with Down-Regulation, Power Boosting, and IBC Capabilities |
| title_sort | surrogate modeling and aeroelastic analysis of a wind turbine with down regulation power boosting and ibc capabilities |
| topic | wind turbine control surrogate modeling loads and control of wind turbines |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/6/1284 |
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