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Study on Mitigation of Wake Interference by Combined Control of Yaw Misalignment and Pitch

Version 1 : Received: 13 June 2023 / Approved: 13 June 2023 / Online: 13 June 2023 (09:35:57 CEST)

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Zhao, L.; Gong, Y.; Gong, F.; Zheng, B.; Wang, J.; Xue, L.; Xue, Y. Study on Mitigation of Wake Interference by Combined Control of Yaw Misalignment and Pitch. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11, 1288. Zhao, L.; Gong, Y.; Gong, F.; Zheng, B.; Wang, J.; Xue, L.; Xue, Y. Study on Mitigation of Wake Interference by Combined Control of Yaw Misalignment and Pitch. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11, 1288.

Abstract

Yaw misalignment can make a wake steer, which is an effective method to increase the power of wind farms, but it also increases the fatigue load of the turbines. In this paper, the method of combining yaw misalignment and pitch control (CYMP) is proposed to investigate the potential to mitigate wake interference, the wind velocity distribution and turbulence distribution in the wake, as well as the power and load changes of the wind turbine are studied, focusing on power in-crement and fatigue damage reduction. Although some studies have found that the method of CYMP are beneficial to increase power generation and reduce fatigue loads, there are no papers that have made a detailed analysis of the effects of wake turbulence, wind speed distribution, power, especially fatigue damage under this control. Simulation tool FAST.Farm is used to model and analyze wind farms, obtain the variation details of wake and provide simulation data for calculating power and fatigue load. The pitch control brings bias to the CYMP optimization results was neglected, the case studies show that the method of CYMP can reduce the fatigue load by 10.29% and increase the total power by 1.7% compared with only wake steering. The Model Predictive Control collaborative method based on CYMP is proposed, which can increase power by more than 2% and reduce thrust by more than 4% under 10m/s turbulent wind.

Keywords

Fast Farm; Combining yaw misalignment and pitch control; Wind farm power; Fatigue load; Wake interference; Optimal control

Subject

Engineering, Marine Engineering

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