Abstract
Wind farm control, in which turbine controllers are coordinated to improve farmwide performance, is an active field of research. One form of wind farm control is wake steering, in which a turbine is yawed to the inflow to redirect its wake away from downstream turbines. Wake steering has been studied in depth in simulations as well as in wind tunnels and scaled test facilities. This work performs a field test of wake steering on a full-scale turbine. In the campaign, the yaw controller of the turbine has been set to track different yaw misalignment set points while a nacelle-mounted lidar scans the wake at several ranges downwind. The lidar measurements are combined with turbine data, as well as measurements of the inflow made by a highly instrumented meteorological mast. These measurements are then compared to the predictions of a wind farm control-oriented model of wakes.
| Original language | American English |
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| Article number | 012013 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
| Volume | 854 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - 13 Jun 2017 |
| Event | Wake Conference 2017 - Visby, Sweden Duration: 30 May 2017 → 1 Jun 2017 |
Bibliographical note
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NREL Publication Number
- NREL/JA-5000-68396
Keywords
- CFD simulations
- control
- wake steering
- wind energy
- wind farm
- wind plant