Advanced study of the atmospheric flow Integrating REal climate conditions to enhance wind farm and wind turbine power production and increase components durability

大气流动的高级研究结合真实的气候条件，以提高风电场和风力涡轮机的发电量并提高部件的耐用性

• 批准号: 10039246
• 金额: $ 63.08万
• 依托单位: OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY CATAPULT
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10039246
• 关键词: Advanced; study; atmospheric; flow; Integrating

To deliver the future needed renewable energy capacity, wind farm developers will have to use larger turbines, at higher altitudes, explore novel geographical regions and offshore sites. Currently, wind turbines and wind farms are designed and operated considering “just” wind conditions. Consequently, the models do not take into account the physics and aerodynamics of atmospheric wind flows at high altitudes, neither how this is affected by the location, the effect of precipitation and/or sand. This reduces the expected efficiency of wind energy production, and makes hard to estimate the energy outputs, operating costs and lifespan of blades and turbines, increasing variability and the risk to investors and project developers when designing wind farms, reducing the total potential investment. Unless new sites can be identified and designed optimally, the LCOEs will start to rise as developers have to design wind farms that cannot be well predicted with conventional models. The AIRE consortium foresees precipitation and other events (clouds, sand, shear, inflow) that wind brings into the state of play to be the new key parameters for siting of wind turbines, wind farm design, component design and O&M strategies planning. AIRE will investigate solution to assess the potential impact of REAL climate conditions in different terrains, and different altitudes both onshore and offshore, gathering information from 4 experimental sites and 4 commercial wind farms. Specially AIRE will bring together researchers, blade manufacturers and utilities to create an open access knowledge hub of experimental data, develop new numerical models, build tools to design and control wind turbines and wind farms. The effectiveness of the developed tools and models will be validated using data from commercial wind farms.

为了提供未来所需的可再生能源容量，风电场开发商将不得不在更高的海拔使用更大的涡轮机，探索新的地理区域和近海地点。目前，风力涡轮机和风电场的设计和运行仅考虑风况。因此，这些模型没有考虑高海拔大气风流的物理和空气动力学，也没有考虑位置、降水和/或沙子的影响如何影响风流。这降低了风能生产的预期效率，并且难以估计能源输出、运营成本以及叶片和涡轮机的使用寿命，增加了投资者和项目开发商在设计风电场时的可变性和风险，从而减少了潜在总投资。除非能够找到新的场地并对其进行优化设计，否则平准化度电成本将开始上升，因为开发商必须设计传统模型无法很好预测的风电场。 AIRE 联盟预计，风带来的降水和其他事件（云、沙、切变、流入）将成为风力涡轮机选址、风电场设计、组件设计和运维策略规划的新关键参数。 AIRE 将研究解决方案，从 4 个实验地点和 4 个商业风电场收集信息，评估不同地形、陆上和海上不同海拔的真实气候条件的潜在影响。特别是，AIRE 将汇集研究人员、叶片制造商和公用事业公司，创建一个开放获取实验数据的知识中心，开发新的数值模型，构建设计和控制风力涡轮机和风电场的工具。所开发的工具和模型的有效性将使用商业风电场的数据进行验证。