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Communication Network Architectures for Southwest Offshore Wind Farm

한국 서남 해상 풍력발전단지 통신망 연구

  • Ahmed, Mohamed A. (Chonbuk National University, Division of Electronics and Information Engineering) ;
  • Kim, Young-Chon (Chonbuk National University, Department of Information Technology)
  • Received : 2016.08.29
  • Accepted : 2016.12.29
  • Published : 2017.01.31
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Abstract

With the increasing of the penetration rate of large-scale wind farms, a reliable, highly available and cost-effective communication network is needed. As the failure of a WF communication network will significantly impact the control and real-time monitoring of wind turbines, network reliability should be considered into the WF design process. This paper analyzes the network reliability of different WF configurations for the Southwest Offshore project that is located in Korea. The WF consists of 20 WTs with a total capacity of 60 MW. In this paper, the performance is compared according to a variety of indices such as network unavailability, mean downtime and network cost. To increase the network reliability, partial protection and full protection were investigated as strategies that can overcome the impact of a single point of failure. Furthermore, the reliability performances of different network architectures are analyzed, evaluated and compared.

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