Development of a Network Compatible Logic Controller for EW15-50 Wind Turbines

荷兰学院的风力涡轮机技术(WTT)项目一直积极参与到行业中来，帮助开发和测试创新技术，培养高素质人才，并为学生提供现实生活中的项目。爱德华王子岛最近做出了一项雄心勃勃的承诺，要在2030年实现净零能源，这将需要像Dynamic Controls(DC)这样的公司帮助实现现有旧技术的现代化，以确保清洁能源投资继续有效和高效地运行。25年来，DynamicControls的核心业务一直是改造旧的燃气轮机控制系统，升级燃气轮机、发电机励磁系统，以及使用先进控制系统和SCADA监控的工业自动化。DC认识到，未来的能源生产将是清洁和可再生的，因此企业决定转向风力涡轮机控制系统。完整风电(EW15-50)涡轮机系统没有通信和网络能力，需要在涡轮机基础上完成任何技术诊断。DC和荷兰学院的这个合作项目将专注于开发一种新的可编程逻辑控制器，该控制器将具有联网功能，以便可以远程诊断和纠正错误，最大限度地减少系统的停机时间，并最大限度地提高能量产生。这一新的控制器系统将使用荷兰学院的EW系统之一进行实时开发和测试。

Holland College's Wind Turbine Technology (WTT) program has been actively involved in engaging industryto help develop and test innovative technologies, train highly qualified personnel and provide real life projectsfor students. Prince Edward Island has recently made an ambitious commitment to reach net zero energy by2030 and to do so, will require companies like Dynamic Controls (DC) to help modernize older existingtechnologies to ensure that clean energy investments continue to perform effectively and efficiently. DynamicControls core business for 25 years has been on the retrofit of old gas turbine control systems, upgrades of gasturbines, generator excitation systems and industrial automation using advanced controls systems and SCADAmonitoring. DC recognizes that the future of energy generation will be clean and renewable and thus thebusiness decision to move into wind turbine control systems. The Entegrity Wind (EW15-50) turbine systemdoes not have communication and network capabilities and requires any technical diagnosis to be completed atthe base of the turbine. This collaborative project between DC and Holland College will focus on thedevelopment of a new programmable logic controller, that will have networking capabilities so that errors canbe diagnosed and corrected remotely, minimizing down time of the systems and maximizing energy generation.This new controller system will be developed and tested in real time, using one of Holland College's EWsystems.