Feasibility Study Into Marinvent Sensor Adaptation for Wind Energy Sector

Marinvent Inc.希望评估其传感器在风能行业中的潜力。该项目的目的是在实际条件下集成和测试该传感器，以评估其在风能领域的潜力。的确，大气结冰对风电场的开发和运营有重大影响。为了达到最佳性能，涡轮机必须首先能够在结冰发生时立即检测到转子叶片上的结冰。然而，实际上没有传感器直接测量结冰对叶片空气动力学的影响。这家加拿大公司的技术在风能行业具有同样的潜力，可以用来检测复杂地形或附近风力涡轮机的尾流效应导致的湍流风力条件下结冰或流动变化的影响。这可以减少结冰过程中的功率损失，执行实时涡轮机优化，并降低运营和维护成本，从而为行业带来重要好处。因此，它将有助于提高加拿大作为寒冷气候和传感器技术解决方案领导者的国际声誉，并将促进加拿大作为绿色能源解决方案主要出口国的全球形象。在此背景下，Marinvent Inc.希望与Nergica合作，利用他们作为风电行业专家的独特地位，拥有先进的风力涡轮机测试和研究设施。Nergica员工将在Marinvent传感器适应风能行业的可行性研究中获得的专业知识将是创新和独特的。Nergica受命对传感器进行技术审查，看看这项技术是否能够检测到结冰期间叶片失速的开始，甚至在正常运行期间优化转子性能。Nergica在此次审查中的发现是，与飞机相比，该传感器在风力涡轮机上的工作范围相似，与安装在叶片上的其他结冰检测传感器相比，安装该设备是可行的。

Marinvent Inc. wishes to assess the potential of it's sensors for the wind industry. This project aims at integrating and testing the sensor in real conditions to evaluate its potential in the Wind Energy sector. Indeed, atmospheric icing has a significant impact on the development and the operation of wind parks. To reach an optimal performance, the turbine must first be able to detect ice on the rotor blades immediately when it occurs. However, no sensors actually measure directly the effect of icing on the aerodynamics of the blade. The Canadian company's technology has the same potential for the wind industry and could be used to detect the effect of icing or flow variations during turbulent wind condition caused by complex terrain or wake effects from nearby wind turbines. This could lead to important benefits to the industry by reducing the power loss during icing, perform real-time turbine optimization and reduce operations and maintenance cost. Consequently, it will contribute to Canada's international reputation as a leader in cold climate and sensor technology solutions and will promote the global view of Canada as a prominent exporter of green energy solutions. In this context, Marinvent Inc. would like to work with Nergica to make use of their unique position as wind industry experts with an advanced wind turbine testing and research facility. The expertise that Nergica employees will acquire on the feasibility study into Marinvent sensor adaptation for wind energy sector will be both innovating and unique. Nergica was mandated to do a technical review of the sensor to see if this technology could be able to detect the onset of stall of the blades during icing events or even optimize the rotor performance during normal operation. Nergica's findings during this review is that the sensor has similar range of operation on a wind turbine compared to an aircraft and that the installation of the device is feasible compared to other ice detection sensors installed on blades.