抓住风:通过解决风向影响来优化风力轮机发电
Linyue Gao1, Christopher Milliren2, Teja Dasari3
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, 1200 Larimer Street, Denver, CO 80204, USA.
PNAS nexus
|November 7, 2024
概括
这项研究引入了一种新的转控制策略,以减少风力轮机因风向而造成的功率损失. 该方法优化了轮排列,显示了超过10%的能源增益和显著的经济效益的潜力.
科学领域:
- 可再生能源工程可再生能源工程
- 大气科学 大气科学
- 控制系统 控制系统
背景情况:
- 风力轮机 (WTs) 由于风向,即风向随高度变化的变化而遭受功率损失.
- 目前的WTs使用单点风力测量,未能考虑转向和影响效率.
研究的目的:
- 开发和评估一种新的控制策略,以优化在风向条件下WT对齐.
- 提高风电场的发电效率和经济可行性.
主要方法:
- 实施了一种转控制策略,使用一个转偏差向上查看表,将转调整与风速和风向数据相关联.
- 在公用事业规模的WT和研究轮机上进行了为期一个月的实地活动,将性能与标准控制器进行比较.
- 利用LiDAR和气象塔来获取风向和风形数据.
主要成果:
- 证明了显著的能源收益,在极端风向条件下,潜在的净收益超过10%.
- 经济分析表明,100兆瓦风电场的年净收益高达70万美元,投资最小.
- 该战略显示,在拥有更大的轮机的离岸环境中,可能会获得更大的收益.
结论:
- 拟议的偏航控制策略有效地减轻了风向造成的功率损失.
- 先进的,具有成本效益的控制策略为在现实的大气条件下改善WT性能提供了显著的机会.
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