• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.827-834
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• 2014

In order to meet the low voltage ride-through requirement in a grid code, a wind power plant (WPP) has to stay connected to a grid, supporting the voltage recovery for a grid fault. To do this, a plant-level controller as well as a wind generator (WG) controller is essential. The dynamic response of a WPP should be analyzed in order to design a plant-level controller. The dynamic response of a WPP for a grid fault is the collective response of all WGs, which depends on the wind speed approaching the WG. Thus, the dynamic response of a WPP should be analyzed by taking the wake effect into consideration, because different wind speeds at WGs will result in different responses of the WPP. This paper analyzes the response of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG)-based offshore WPP with a grid fault taking into account the wake effect. To obtain the approaching wind speed of a WG in a WPP, we considered the cumulative impact of multiple shadowing and the effect of the wind direction. The voltage, reactive power, and active power at the point of common coupling of a 100 MW DFIG-based offshore WPP were analyzed during and after a grid fault under various wind and fault conditions using an EMTP-RV simulator. The results clearly demonstrate that not considering the wake effect leads to significantly different results, particularly for the reactive power and active power, which could potentially lead to incorrect conclusions and / or control schemes for a WPP.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.85-91
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 NREL 5 MW 해상풍력터빈 모형의 후류 유동장 분석을 위해 1/86 축소모형을 사용한 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 정격출력 속도 11.4 m/s와 회전수 1,045 rpm 조건에서 열선풍속계를 사용하여 반경의 6배까지 후류에서 속도 결핍 및 난류도 변화를 측정하는 풍동시험을 수행하였다. 그 결과 풍력터빈의 후류에서의 속도결핍은 횡방향과 수직 방향으로는 반경의 2배 이내에서 회복됨을 볼 수 있었으며, 끝단 와류에 의한 영향은 반경의 5배 이후에는 나타나지 않음을 볼 수 있었다. 또한, 후류의 난류도는 블레이드 끝단 부근에서 크게 나타나며 길이방향으로 반경 거리까지는 급격한 감소가 일어나지만 이 이후부터 반경의 6배까지 유지되었다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.36-42
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• 2013

The performance of the wind turbine is determined by wind speed and unsteady flow characteristics. Unsteady wake flow causes not only the decline in performance but also structural problems of the wind turbine. In this paper, conceptual designs for the wind turbine tower are conducted to minimize unsteady wake flow. Numerical simulations are performed to inspect the shape effect of the tower. Through the installation of additional structures at the rear of the tower, the creation of Karman vortex is delayed properly and vortex interactions are reduced extremely, which enhance the stability of the wind turbine. From the comparative analysis of lift and drag coefficients for each structure, it is concluded that two streamwise tips with a splitter plate have the most improved aerodynamic characteristics in stabilizing wake flow.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2016

상업용 풍력발전단지에 설치된 기상 탑의 측정데이터와 풍력터빈의 SCADA(Supervisory Control and data Acquisition) 데이터를 이용하여 풍력터빈의 후류영향을 분석하고 후류 풍속저감 예측을 위한 eddy viscosity 모델 및 난류강도 예측을 위한 Lange 모델의 계산값과 비교하였다. 후류영향 분석결과, 자유단(free stream) 풍속이 낮을수록 풍력터빈 후류에서의 풍속 감소율은 증가하였으며 후류 난류강도 역시 자유단 풍속이 낮아질수록 증가하는 특징을 보였다. Eddy viscosity 모델에 의해 예측된 풍력터빈 후류중심에서의 풍속 감소율은 측정값에 비해 과대 예측되었으며 Lange 모델에 의한 후류 난류강도 예측은 실측값과 유사하게 예측되고 있음을 보였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1047-1053
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• 2015

A time-domain simulation tool to predict the dynamic power output of wind turbines in an offshore wind farm was developed in this study. A wind turbine model consisting of first or second order transfer functions of various wind turbine elements was combined with the Ainslie's eddy viscosity wake model to construct the simulation tool. The wind turbine model also includes an aerodynamic model that is a look up table of power and thrust coefficients with respect to the tip speed ratio and pitch angle of the wind turbine obtained by a commercial multi-body dynamics simulation tool. The wake model includes algorithms of superposition of multiple wakes and propagation based on Taylor's frozen turbulence assumption. Torque and pitch control algorithms were implemented in the simulation tool to perform max-Cp and power regulation control of the wind turbines. The simulation tool calculates wind speeds in the two-dimensional domain of the wind farm at the hub height of the wind turbines and yields power outputs from individual wind turbines. The NREL 5MW reference wind turbine was targeted as a wind turbine to obtain parameters for the simulation. To validate the simulation tool, a Danish offshore wind farm with 80 wind turbines was modelled and used to predict the power from the wind farm. A comparison of the prediction with the measured values available in literature showed that the results from the simulation program were fairly close to the measured results in literature except when the wind turbines are congruent with the wind direction.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.1021-1028
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• 2013

The frequency of a power system should be kept within limits to produce high-quality electricity. For a power system with a high penetration of wind generators (WGs), difficulties might arise in maintaining the frequency, because modern variable speed WGs operate based on the maximum power point tracking control scheme. On the other hand, the wind speed that arrives at a downstream WG is decreased after having passed one WG due to the wake effect. The rotor speed of each WG may be different from others. This paper proposes an algorithm for assigning the droop of each WG in a wind power plant (WPP) based on the rotor speed for the virtual inertial control considering the wake effect. It assumes that each WG in the WPP has two auxiliary loops for the virtual inertial control, i.e. the frequency deviation loop and the rate of change of frequency (ROCOF) loop. To release more kinetic energy, the proposed algorithm assigns the droop of each WG, which is the gain of the frequency deviation loop, depending on the rotor speed of each WG, while the gains for the ROCOF loop of all WGs are set to be equal. The performance of the algorithm is investigated for a model system with five synchronous generators and a WPP, which consists of 15 doubly-fed induction generators, by varying the wind direction as well as the wind speed. The results clearly indicate that the algorithm successfully reduces the frequency nadir as a WG with high wind speed releases more kinetic energy for the virtual inertial control. The algorithm might help maximize the contribution of the WPP to the frequency support.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.247-265
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• 2022

In the present study, we focus on the CFD simulations for the performance and the rotor-generated wake of a model-scale wind turbine which was designed for wave tank experiments. The CFD simulations with fully resolved rotor geometry are performed using MARIN's community-based open-source CFD code ReFRESCO. The absolute formulation method (AFM) is leveraged to model the rotating wind turbine. The k - ω SST turbulence model is adopted in the incompressible Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. First, the thrust and torque coefficients, C_T and C_P, are calculated at different Tip Speed Ratios (TSR), and the results are compared against the experimental data and previous numerical results. The pressure distribution of the turbine blades at the 70% span is obtained and compared to the results obtained by other tools. Then, a verification study aiming at quantifying the discretization uncertainty of the turbine performance with respect to the grid resolution in the wake region is performed. Last, the rotor-generated wake at the TSR of 7 is presented and discussed.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.435-449
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• 2013

The vehicle-induced aerodynamic loads bring vibrations to some of the highway sound barriers, for they are designed in consideration of natural wind loads only. A field experiment is carried out with respect to three important factors: vehicle type, vehicle speed and the vehicle-barrier separation distance. Based on the results, the time-history of pressures is given, showing identical characteristics in all cases. Therefore, the vehicle-induced aerodynamic loads acting on the highway sound barrier are summarized as the combination of "head impact" and "wake impact". The head impact appears to have potential features, while the wake impact is influenced by the rotational flow. Then parameters in the experiment are analyzed, showing that the head impact varies with vehicle speed, vehicle-barrier separation distance, vehicle shape and cross-sectional area, while the wake impact is mainly about vehicle-barrier separation distance and vehicle length.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.145-167
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• 2010

By using the 'failure' model approach, the effects of wind direction on the flight of sheathing panels from the roof of a model house in extreme winds was investigated. A complex relationship between the initial conditions, failure velocities, flight trajectories and speeds was observed. It was found that the local flow field above the roof and in the wake of the house have important effects on the flight of the panels. For example, when the initial panel location is oblique to the wind direction and in the region of separated flow near the roof edge, the panels do not fly from the roof since the resultant aerodynamic forces are small, even though the pressure coefficients at failure are high. For panels that do fly, wake effects from the building are a source of significant variation of flight trajectories and speeds. It was observed that the horizontal velocities of the panels span a range of about 20% - 95% of the roof height gust speed at failure. Numerical calculations assuming uniform, smooth flow appear to be useful for determining panel speeds; in particular, using the mean roof height, 3 sec gust speed provides a useful upper bound for determining panel speeds for the configuration examined. However, there are significant challenges for estimating trajectories using this method.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제41권7호
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• pp.469-480
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• 2017

풍력발전단지에서 연간 에너지 생산량 예측의 정확도를 위해서는 바람 방향별 후류영향에 의한 풍속감소와 이에 따른 발전량 손실을 효과적으로 계산하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 연간 에너지 생산량 예측을 위하여 방향별 후류영향을 고려한 계산 프로그램을 개발하고, 예측 적합성을 확인하기 위해 실제 풍력발전단지의 연간 에너지 생산량 분석 결과 및 기존 상용 소프트웨어의 계산결과와 비교하였다. 적용된 계산식들은 기존 이론들을 바탕으로 하고 있어 상용 소프트웨어와 동일하지만 풍향별 후류영향 범위의 계산과정에서 차이가 있다. 비교결과 개발 프로그램은 실제 풍력발전단지 전체 시스템 이용율에 1% 이내로 근접하였고 기존 상용 프로그램을 이용한 예측 결과보다 2% 이상 실제 연간 시스템 이용율에 근접하는 결과를 보여주었다.