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Wind Turbine Simulators for Control Performance Test of DFIG

  • Abo-Khalil, Ahmed;Lee, Dong-Choon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2007.07a
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    • pp.192-194
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    • 2007
  • This paper proposes a new wind turbine simulator using a squirrel cage induction for control performance test of DFIG (doubly-fed induction generator). The turbine static characteristics are modeled using the relation between the turbine torque versus the wind speed and the blade pitch angle. The turbine performance is subjected to a real wind speed pattern by modeling the wind speed as a sum of harmonics with a wide range of frequency. The turbine model includes the effect of the tower shadow and wind shear. A pitch angle controller is designed and used to protect the coupled generator by limiting the turbine speed to the maximum value. Experimental results are provided for a 3[kW] wind turbine simulator at laboratory.

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Nonlinear structural system wind load input estimation using the extended inverse method

  • Lee, Ming-Hui
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.451-464
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    • 2013
  • This study develops an extended inverse input estimation algorithm with intelligent adaptive fuzzy weighting to effectively estimate the unknown input wind load of nonlinear structural systems. This algorithm combines the extended Kalman filter and recursive least squares estimator with intelligent adaptive fuzzy weighting. This study investigated the unknown input wind load applied on a tower structural system. Nonlinear characteristics will exist in various structural systems. The nonlinear characteristics are particularly more obvious when applying larger input wind load. Numerical simulation cases involving different input wind load types are studied in this paper. The simulation results verify the nonlinear characteristics of the structural system. This algorithm is effective in estimating unknown input wind loads.

Dynamic Characteristics Analysis of Filament-wound Composite Towers for Large Scale Offshore Wind-Turbine (대형 해상풍력발전용 필라멘트 와인딩 복합재 타워의 동적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Jeong-Young;Hong, Cheol-Hyun;Jeong, Jae-Hun;Moon, Byong-Young
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.55-60
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the buckling load of filament-wound composite towers for large scale wind-turbine using finite element method(FEM). To define material properties, we used both the effective property method and the stacking properties method. The effective properties method is to assume that composite consists of one ply. The stacking properties method is to assume that composite consists of some stacked plies. First, linear buckling analysis of the tower, filament-wounded with angles of [${\pm}30$] was carried out by two methods for composite material properties, the stacking method and the effective method. and FE analysis was performed for the composite towers according to filament winding angles of [${\pm}30$], [${\pm}45$], [${\pm}60$]. FE analysis results using the stacking properties of the composite were in good agreement with the results by the effective properties. The difference between FEM results by material properties methods was approximately 0~2.3% in buckling Analysis and approximately 0~0.6% in modal analysis. And above the angle of [${\pm}60$], there was a little change of buckling load.

Modal Analysis of Filament-wound Composite Towers for Large Scale Wind-Turbine (대형 풍력 발전용 필라멘트 와인딩 복합재 타워의 고유 진동수 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Gheol-Hyun
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.73-78
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the natural frequency of filament-wound composite towers for large scale wind-turbines using the finite element method (FEM). To define the material properties, we used both the effective property method and the stacking properties method. The effective properties method assumes that a composite consists of one ply. The stacking properties method assumes that a composite consists of several stacked plies. First, a modal analysis of the tower, filament-wound with angles of $[{\pm}30]$, was carried out using the two methods for composite material properties, the stacking method and effective method. Then, an FE analysis was performed for composite towers using filament winding angles of $[{\pm}30]$, $[{\pm}45]$, and $[{\pm}60]$. The FE analysis results using the stacking properties of the composite were in good agreement with the results from the effective properties method. The difference between the FEM and material properties methods was approximately 0~0.6%

Buckling Analysis of Filament-wound Composite Towers for Large Scale Wind-Turbine (대형 풍력발전용 필라멘트 와인딩 복합재 타워의 좌굴 해석)

  • Han, Jeong-Young;Hong, Cheol-Hyun
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.79-84
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the buckling load of filament-wound composite towers for large scale wind-turbines using the finite element method (FEM). To define the material properties, we used both the effective property method and stacking properties method. The effective properties method assumes that a composite consists of one ply. The stacking properties method assumes that a composite consists of several stacked plies. First, a linear buckling analysis of the tower, filament-wound with angles of $[{\pm}60]$, was carried out using the two methods for composite material properties: the stacking method and effective method. An FE analysis was also performed for the composite towers using the filament winding angles of $[{\pm}30]$, $[{\pm}45]$, and $[{\pm}60]$. The FE analysis results using the stacking properties of the composite were in good agreement with the results from the effective properties method. The difference between the FEM results and material properties method was approximately 0~2.3%. Above the angle of $[{\pm}60]$, there was little change in the buckling load.

A Study on the Dynamic Response of Cylindrical Wind Turbine Tower Considering Added Mass (부가수질량을 고려한 실린더형 풍력발전기타워의 동적응답연구)

  • Son, Choong-Yul;Lee, Kang-Su;Lee, Jung-Tak
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.348-358
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    • 2008
  • Unlike structures in the air, the vibration analysis of a submerged or floating structure such as offshore structures is possibly only when the fluid-structures is understood, as the whole or part of the structure is in contact with water. Through the comparision between the experimental result and the finite element analysis result for a simple cylindrical model, it was verified that an added mass effects on the cylindrical structure. Using the commercial FEA program ANSYS(v.11.0), underwater added mass was superposed on the mass matrix of the structure. A frequency response analysis of forced vibration in the frequency considered the dynamic load was also performed. It was proposed to find the several important modes of resonance peak for these fixed cylindrical type structures. Furthermore, it is expected that the analysis method and the data in this study can be applied to a dynamic structural design and dynamic performance evaluation for the ground and marine purpose of power generator by wind.

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Non-stationary and non-Gaussian characteristics of wind speeds

  • Hui, Yi;Li, Bo;Kawai, Hiromasa;Yang, Qingshan
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.59-78
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    • 2017
  • Non-stationarity and non-Gaussian property are two of the most important characteristics of wind. These two features are studied in this study based on wind speed records measured at different heights from a 325 m high meteorological tower during the synoptic wind storms. By using the time-frequency analysis tools, it is found that after removing the low frequency trend of the longitudinal wind, the retained fluctuating wind speeds remain to be asymmetrically non-Gaussian distributed. Results show that such non-Gaussianity is due to the weak-stationarity of the detrended fluctuating wind speed. The low frequency components of the fluctuating wind speeds mainly contribute to the non-zero skewness, while distribution of the high frequency component is found to have high kurtosis values. By further studying the decomposed wind speed, the mechanisms of the non-Gaussian distribution are examined from the phase, turbulence energy point of view.