Assessing Consequences of Wind Turbine Active Power Control

评估风力发电机有功功率控制的后果

• 批准号: 521836-2017
• 负责人: Hall, Matthew
• 金额: $ 1.76万
• 依托单位: University of Prince Edward Island
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=639290
• 关键词: Assessing; Consequences; Wind; Turbine; Active

This project aims to provide Canada's leading wind energy test site with the analysis tools needed to explorenew strategies for wind farm operation. The Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan) owns and operates a10 MW wind farm for power production and research purposes. A growing research interest is in active powercontrol, where turbine power output is adjusted on an ongoing basis to meet the fluctuating needs of the localelectricity system. If wind farm output can be adjusted to help match minute-by-minute changes in demand orother generation, then wind farms can actually assist with stability of the power grid. However, changing awind turbine's operation runs the risk of introducing additional structural loads and increasing wear and tear,ultimately reducing wind farm lifetime or increasing operating costs. Exploring active power control thereforerequires a better understanding of the potential consequences. This is all the more true for a research institutionsuch as WEICan, which has interest in experimenting with new and innovative control strategies. To addressthis, the UPEI team will develop simulation models of WEICan's wind turbines. These models will be tuned incollaboration with WEICan based on measurements of the existing turbines, and then put through differentscenarios that WEICan has interest in experimenting with. By analysing the simulation results in terms of windturbines forces and deflections, we can estimate the consequences on wind turbine health from variousoperating strategies and under a range of environmental conditions. Ultimately, these results, and the newlydeveloped models used to produce them, will give WEICan insight into what active power control scenarios itcan safely explore with its turbines, enabling future exploration and demonstration of novel wind turbineoperating strategies.

该项目旨在为加拿大领先的风能试验场提供所需的分析工具，以探索风电场运营的新策略。加拿大风能研究所（WEICan）拥有并经营一个10兆瓦的风力发电场，用于发电和研究。一个日益增长的研究兴趣是在主动功率控制，其中涡轮机功率输出不断调整，以满足当地电力系统的波动需求。如果风电场的输出可以调整，以帮助匹配需求或其他发电的每分钟变化，那么风电场实际上可以帮助电网的稳定性。然而，改变风力涡轮机的操作冒着引入额外的结构负载和增加磨损的风险，最终减少风电场寿命或增加操作成本。因此，探索有功功率控制需要更好地理解潜在的后果。对于像伟灿这样有兴趣试验新的创新控制策略的研究机构来说，这一点尤其如此。为了解决这个问题，UPEI团队将开发WEICAN风力涡轮机的仿真模型。这些模型将根据现有涡轮机的测量结果与WEIC一起进行调整，然后通过WEIC感兴趣的不同场景进行试验。通过分析风力涡轮机的力和变形方面的模拟结果，我们可以估计各种运行策略和一系列环境条件下对风力涡轮机健康的影响。最终，这些结果以及用于产生这些结果的新开发的模型将使WEICAN深入了解其涡轮机可以安全地探索的有功功率控制方案，从而能够在未来探索和演示新的风力涡轮机操作策略。