Uncertainty of power curve measurement with a two‐beam nacelle‐mounted lidar

Nacelle lidars are attractive for offshore measurements since they can provide measurements of the free wind speed in front of the turbine rotor without erecting a met mast, which significantly reduces the cost of the measurements. Nacelle‐mounted pulsed lidars with two lines of sight (LOS) have already been demonstrated to be suitable for use in power performance measurements. To be considered as a professional tool, however, power curve measurements performed using these instruments require traceable calibrated measurements and the quantification of the wind speed measurement uncertainty. Here we present and demonstrate a procedure fulfilling these needs. A nacelle lidar went through a comprehensive calibration procedure. This calibration took place in two stages. First with the lidar on the ground, the tilt and roll readings of the inclinometers in the nacelle lidar were calibrated. Then the lidar was installed on a 9m high platform in order to calibrate the wind speed measurement. The lidar's radial wind speed measurement along each LOS was compared with the wind speed measured by a calibrated cup anemometer, projected along the LOS direction. The various sources of uncertainty in the lidar wind speed measurement have been thoroughly determined: uncertainty of the reference anemometer, the horizontal and vertical positioning of the beam, the lack of homogeneity of the flow within the probe volume, lidar measurement mean deviation and standard uncertainty. The resulting uncertainty lies between 1 and 2% for the wind speed range between cut‐in and rated wind speed. Finally, the lidar was mounted on the nacelle of a wind turbine in order to perform a power curve measurement. The wind speed was simultaneously measured with a mast‐top mounted cup anemometer placed two rotor diameters upwind of the turbine. The wind speed uncertainty related to the lidar tilting was calculated based on the tilt angle uncertainty derived from the inclinometer calibration and the deviation of the measurement height from hub height. The resulting combined uncertainty in the power curve using the nacelle lidar was less than 10% larger on average than that obtained with the mast mounted cup anemometer. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Detection of nacelle anemometer faults in a wind farm minimizing the uncertainty

The performance assessment of wind farms requires the acquisition of accurate power and wind speed data of each turbine. Nowadays, the nacelle anemometry is widely studied as an option for power performance verification. Therefore, systems to detect the nacelle anemometer faults in a wind farm in operation are necessary for maintenance purposes. In this paper, we propose a method to detect wind speed deviations of the nacelle anemometers by comparing them with the nearby anemometers. This comparison is made through an approach to estimate the wind speed in each nacelle. The approach is based on the discretization of wind speed data using the bin method. The key issue of this proposal is the estimation of the anemometer deviations considering the range of data with lower uncertainty. To this end, an average uncertainty model per bin and direction sector has been integrated into the method. The tests show that using wind speeds higher than 4.5 m s ^{? 1} gives the lowest uncertainty. Data from two wind farms have been used to test this method, and the obtained results have allowed the detection of problematic anemometers. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于湍流的双NTF方法应用于机舱风速计测量功率曲线

机舱风速计测量功率曲线的误差较大,造成风电功率预测结果的不确定性。文章依托某风电场现场实验,研究了机舱风速-自由流风速的关系,探讨了大气湍流强度对机舱传递函数(NTF)的影响,提出了基于湍流的双NTF方法,并应用于机舱风速计测量功率曲线。在不同年平均风速情况下,采用未修正的机舱风速功率曲线、国际电工委员会(IEC)提出的单NTF方法修正后的机舱风速功率曲线和文章所提出的双NTF方法修正后的机舱风速功率曲线,分别评估年发电量,其误差范围分别为-8.8%~-0.5%,-2.4%~-0.2%和-0.2%~0.2%。研究结果表明,文章所提出的基于湍流的双NTF方法是可行的,其应用效果优于IEC提出的单NTF方法。     

Power curve tracking in the presence of a tip speed constraint

This paper considers the problem of power regulation for a variable speed wind turbine in the presence of a blade tip speed constraint, for example to limit noise emissions. The main contribution of the paper is the formulation of a policy for the regulation of the machine in the transition region between the classical regions II and III that accommodates the tip speed constraint, and the derivation of associated wind schedules for the rotor speed, blade pitch and aerodynamic torque. To exemplify the possible use of such wind schedules in the design of control laws, model-based controllers are formulated in this paper that are capable of performing power curve tracking throughout all wind speeds, in contrast with commonly adopted approaches that use switching controllers to cover the various operating regimes of the machine. The proposed regulation policies and control laws are demonstrated in a high fidelity simulation environment for a representative 3 MW machine.     

Turbine‐scale wind field measurements using dual‐Doppler lidar

Spatially resolved measurements of microscale winds are retrieved using scanning dual‐Doppler lidar and then compared with independent in situ wind measurements. Data for this study were obtained during a month‐long field campaign conducted at a site in north‐central Oklahoma in November of 2010. Observational platforms include one instrumented 60 m meteorological tower and two scanning coherent Doppler lidars. The lidars were configured to perform coordinated dual‐Doppler scans surrounding the 60 m tower, and the resulting radial velocity observations were processed to retrieve the three‐component velocity vector field on surfaces defined by the intersecting scan planes. The dual‐Doppler analysis method is described, and three‐dimensional visualizations of the retrieved fields are presented. The retrieved winds are compared with sonic anemometer (SA) measurements at the 60 m level on the tower. The Pearson correlation coefficient between the retrievals and the SA wind speeds was greater than 0.97, and the wind direction difference was very small (<0.1^o), suggesting that the dual‐Doppler technique can be used to examine fine‐scale variations in the flow. However, the mean percent difference between the SA and dual‐Doppler wind speed was approximately 15%, with the SA consistently measuring larger wind speeds. To identify the source of the discrepancy, a multi‐instrument intercomparison study was performed involving lidar wind speeds derived from standard velocity‐azimuth display (VAD) analysis of plan position indicator scan data, a nearby 915 MHz radar wind profiler (RWP) and radiosondes. The lidar VAD, RWP and radiosondes wind speeds were found to agree to within 3%. By contrast, SA wind speeds were found to be approximately 14% larger than the lidar VAD wind speeds. These results suggest that the SA produced wind speeds that were too large. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

变速恒频风力发电系统风速短期预测方法研究

采用现有方法预测短期变速恒频风力发电系统的风速时,因未分析风力机的运行特性而导致无法准确预测系统的输出无功功率、输出有功功率和短期风速,且预测结果的平均绝对误差和均方误差大,为此提出变速恒频风力发电系统风速的预测方法。首先对风力机的运行特性进行分析,然后采用支持向量机回归算法构建风速预测模型,最后利用风速预测模型完成变速恒频风力发电系统风速的短期预测。实验结果表明,所提方法可准确地预测系统的输出无功功率、输出有功功率和短期风速,且预测结果的平均绝对误差和均方误差小,验证了所提方法的整体有效性。     

电网区域化综合测风系统在风电开发中的应用研究

以实现高精度、大区域范围的风能资源评估和风电功率预测为目标,分析了基于电网建立区域化综合测风系统的必要性,并研究了风电测量与功率预测控制系统的主要性能。该系统可为区域风电科学规划、大型风电基地的建设、风电场和电网的可靠运行提供技术指导和支撑。     

Wind turbine rotor imbalance detection using nacelle and blade measurements

Wind power is the world's fastest growing renewable energy source, but operations and maintenance costs are still a major obstacle toward reliability and widescale adoption of wind power, accounting for a large part of the cost of energy for offshore installations. Structural health monitoring systems have been proposed for implementing condition‐based maintenance. The wind energy industry currently uses condition monitoring systems that are mostly adapted from roating machinery in other power generation industries. However, these systems have had limited effectiveness on wind turbines because of their atypical operating conditions, which are characterized by low and variable rotational speed, rapidly varying torque, extremely large rotors and stochastic loading from the wind. Although existing systems primarily take measurements from the nacelle, valuable information can be extracted from the structural dynamic response of the rotor blades to mitigate potentially damaging loading conditions. One such condition is rotor imbalance, which not only reduces the aerodynamic efficiency of the turbine and therefore its power output but can also lead to very large increases in loading on the drivetrain, blades and tower. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's fast software was used to model both mass and aerodynamic imbalance in a 5 MW offshore wind turbine. It is shown that a combination of blade and nacelle measurements, most of which can be obtained from standard instrumentation already found on utility‐scale wind turbines, can be formulated into an algorithm used to detect and locate imbalance. The method described herein allows for imbalance detection that is potentially more sensitive than existing on‐line systems, while taking advantage of sensors that are already in place on many utility‐scale wind turbines. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Performance evaluation of a floating lidar buoy in nearshore conditions

This work provides a signal‐processing and statistical‐error analysis methodology to assess key performance indicators for a floating Doppler wind lidar. The study introduces the raw‐to‐clean data processing chain, error assessment indicators and key performance indicators, as well as two filtering methods at post‐processing level to alleviate the impact of angular motion and spatial variability of the wind flow on the performance indicators. Towards this aim, the study mainly revisits horizontal wind speed (HWS) and turbulence intensity measurements with a floating ZephIR 300 lidar buoy during a 38 day nearshore test campaign in Pont del Petroli (Barcelona). Typical day cases along with overall statistics for the whole campaign are discussed to illustrate the methodology and processing tools developed. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Power performance of wind energy converters characterized as stochastic process: applications of the Langevin power curve

The power performance of a wind energy converter (WEC) commonly refers to the relation between the input source and the electrical output, i.e. the input wind speed u and the electrical power output P. The International Electrotechnical Commission defined a so‐called power curve P(u) that quantifies this relation. Recently, a novel approach was introduced based on the short‐time dynamical response of the WEC to high‐frequency wind fluctuations. The dynamical behavior of the WEC is quantified by a drift field and the corresponding Langevin power curve (LPC). We present three applications of our method to wind energy based on the LPC. The first application consists of testing the power performance of WECs using LIDAR wind measurements. We then extend this test to the monitoring of the WEC performance over time. Finally, we apply the LPC to a simulation model for a WEC as a tool to characterize its performance. These applications illustrate the flexibility of the LPC as a relevant tool for performance testing and monitoring. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Coherent Doppler lidar for wind farm characterization

Coherent Doppler lidar measurements are of increasing interest for the wind energy industry. Wind measurements are fundamental inputs for the evaluation of potential energy yield and performance of wind farms. Three‐dimensional scanning Doppler lidar may provide a new basis for wind farm site selection, design and optimization. In this paper, the authors discuss Doppler lidar measurements obtained for a wind energy development. The possibility of using lidar measurements to more fully characterize the wind field is discussed, specifically terrain effects, spatial variation of winds, power density and the effect of shear at different layers within the rotor swept area. Vector retrieval methods have been applied to the lidar data, and results are presented on an elevated terrain‐following surface at hub height. The vector retrieval estimates are compared with tower measurements, after interpolation to the appropriate level. Doppler lidar data are used to estimate the spatial power density at hub height (for the period of the deployment). An example wind farm layout is presented for demonstration purposes based purely on lidar measurement, even though the lidar data acquisition period cannot be considered climatological. The strength of this approach is the ability to directly measure spatial variations of the wind field over the wind farm. Also, because Doppler lidar can measure winds at different vertical levels, an approach for estimating wind power density over the rotor swept area (rather than only the hub height) is explored. Finally, advanced vector retrieval algorithms have been applied to better characterize local wind variations and shear. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

大型风电机组功率曲线的分析与修正

讨论了风电机组不同情况下的功率曲线定义,分析了功率曲线绘制过程中的风速处理方法,可以适用于绘制风力发电机组静、动态功率曲线;讨论了影响机组功率曲线的各种因素,并给出了影响因子,使得根据功率曲线进行风场发电量的计算可以取得更可靠的结果。     

Power curve control in micro wind turbine design

In this work, a micro wind turbine will be designed and built for a series of wind tunnel tests (rotor dynamics and Wind Turbine (WT) start-up velocity). Its design stems from an original numerical code, developed by the authors, based on the Blade Element Momentum (BEM) Theory.     

陕西省金润河北镇风电场风能资源开发评估

对陕西省宝鸡市陇县金润河北镇风电场气象条件、风功率密度、平均风速、主导风向等风能参数进行分析评价。结果表明,测风塔100 m高度月平均风速、月平均风功率密度最大均出现在4月,最小均出现在8月;测风塔100 m高度主导风向为SSW(南西南),主要风能方向为SSW(南西南),风电场风功率密度等级为1级。风电场安装20台2500 kW的风电机组,装机容量50 MW,年设计发电量1.33485×108 kW·h,年出厂电量9.5426×107 kW·h。结果可为其他风电场选址和发电量估算提供参考。     

用于电站锅炉燃烧器喷口冷态风速测量的自行爬壁机械的研制

冷态空气动力场试验是检测电站锅炉炉内流场分布状况,保证锅炉安全、经济燃烧的重要手段,其主要内容是测量冷态工况下燃烧器各喷口的出口风速,目前人工测量的作业方式劳动强度大、工作效率低、危险性高。用于燃烧器喷口冷态风速测量的自行爬壁机械可以携带常用类型的风速仪,通过磁吸附在水冷壁管上,由步进电机驱动履带上下行进,停止在待测喷口处进行风速测量,该机械为冷态空气动力场试验提供一个高效、安全的测量平台。     

采用时间序列预测风电场出力

基于时间序列的方法,采用自回归滑动平均(ARMA)模型进行短期风速预测;考虑风力发电机组排列布置时尾流效应的影响、风电场址地面粗糙程度、空气密度、风向变化以及不同型号风机功率特性的差异等因素,采用Jasen尾流模型建立了大型风电场的综合模型。结果表明,合理的风电场布置方案有利于减小尾流效应的影响,从而提高风电场出力。     

浅谈变速恒频双馈风力发电机

阐述了双馈风力发电机实现变速恒频的工作原理,讨论了双馈电机的运行状态,推导了双馈电机功率传输方式与转差率的关系,指出了变速恒频风力发电系统的优点是拓宽了风速的可利用范围,对提高风电场发电能力具有重要意义。     

Liquid crystal quantitative temperature measurement technique

IntrOductionThe quantitative teInPatre measurement usingthermochrOndc liquid crystal is an "area" thermalmeasurement technique. It uhlizes the feature that 1iquidcrystal changes its reflex llght color raPidly withvariahon of temperatUre. On the base of certain colortheory, aPplying an image captUring and processingsystem that consists of a color CCD videO camera and acomPutCr, a callbratiOn curve of liquid crystal's color-temPeratUre can be Obtained. theards, the tectriqueuses uns curve…     

Characterization of the unsteady flow in the nacelle region of a modern wind turbine

A three‐dimensional Navier–Stokes solver has been used to investigate the flow in the nacelle region of a wind turbine where anemometers are typically placed to measure the flow speed and the turbine yaw angle. A 500 kW turbine was modelled with rotor and nacelle geometry in order to capture the complex separated flow in the blade root region of the rotor. A number of steady state and unsteady simulations were carried out for wind speeds ranging from 6 m s^?1 to 16 m s^?1 as well as two yaw and tilt angles. The flow in the nacelle region was found to be highly unsteady, dominated by unsteady vortex shedding from the cylindrical part of the blades, which interacted with the root vortices from each blade, generating high‐velocity gradients. As a consequence, the nacelle wind speed and the nacelle flow angle were found to vary significantly with the height above the nacelle surface. The nacelle anemometry showed significant dependence on both yaw and tilt angles with yaw errors of up to 10 degrees when operating in a tilted inflow. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

风电场风能资源评价两个新参数——相当风速、有功风功率密度

利用风速频率瑞利分布对平均风速进行均一化,提出相当风速的概念;通过对风功率密度进行分析,考虑到风机工作风速区间,提出有功风功率密度概念。为准确评价潜在风电场风能资源状况提供了两个指示性很强的指标。