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Control of Wind and Water Turbines

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 November 2023) | Viewed by 3289

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Prof. Dr. Jeff Pieper

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Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Interests: control; optimization
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on Control of Wind and Water Turbines will showcase papers that examine the application of modern optimal, robust, adaptive and nonlinear control to the regulation and tracking of the power generated, turbine rotation rate, stress and other factors important to turbine operation. The industrial and experimental implementations of controllers in operational turbines are particularly invited, but all applications of feedback control to problems associated with electrical power generation in wind and water turbines will be considered.

Prof. Dr. Jeff Pieper
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • wind turbines
  • water turbines
  • feedback control
  • optimal control
  • robust control

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Robust Nonlinear Control of a Wind Turbine with a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator
by Cuauhtemoc Acosta Lúa, Domenico Bianchi, Salvador Martín Baragaño, Mario Di Ferdinando and Stefano Di Gennaro
Energies 2023, 16(18), 6649; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16186649 - 15 Sep 2023
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This paper addresses the design of a robust nonlinear dynamic controller for a wind turbine. The turbine is equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous generator. The control problem involves tracking a suitable reference value for the turbine’s angular velocity, which corresponds to the [...] Read more.
This paper addresses the design of a robust nonlinear dynamic controller for a wind turbine. The turbine is equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous generator. The control problem involves tracking a suitable reference value for the turbine’s angular velocity, which corresponds to the wind speed. This issue is tackled by compensating for variations in the electrical and mechanical parameters present in the mathematical model. Additionally, the problem is approached under the assumption that wind speed cannot be directly measured, a fact verified in practical scenarios. This situation is particularly relevant for real-world applications, where only nominal parameter values are accessible and accurate wind speed measurement is challenging due to disturbances caused by the turbine or other factors, despite the use of appropriate sensors. To achieve precise tracking of the angular velocity reference, effective compensation of perturbation terms arising from parameter uncertainties and errors in wind estimation becomes crucial. To address this problem, a wind velocity estimator is employed in conjunction with high-order sliding mode parameter estimators, ensuring the turbine’s operation attains a high level of performance. Full article
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Optimization of Pitch Control Parameters for a Wind Turbine Based on Tower Active Damping Control
by Yingming Liu, Shuyuan Zhang, Xiaodong Wang, Hongfang Xie and Tian Cao
Energies 2022, 15(22), 8686; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15228686 - 18 Nov 2022
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Given the difficulty of accurately setting multiple control parameters in wind turbines, a design method for a pitch controller considering tower load reduction is proposed, which enhances the control performance and reduces both the tower vibration and load. Firstly, the pitch-speed system and [...] Read more.
Given the difficulty of accurately setting multiple control parameters in wind turbines, a design method for a pitch controller considering tower load reduction is proposed, which enhances the control performance and reduces both the tower vibration and load. Firstly, the pitch-speed system and the tower fore-aft active damping control are built. In addition, the explicit equation of the tower fore-aft active damping gain is deduced to calculate its initial value. Secondly, the pitch-speed system is identified as an inertial time-delay system using the least squares method. Subsequently, the pitch PI control parameters are set using the Chien–Hrones–Reswick method. Thirdly, the pitch PI control parameters and the tower fore-aft active damping gains are optimized based on the kindred-protected genetic algorithm, which improves the accuracy of the control parameters. Meanwhile, the Pareto method is used to coordinate the control objectives by allocating the weight. Furthermore, the adaptive control is built by fitting the parameters with the wind speed points using the least squares method to enhance the control performance. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed design method is verified by comparing the control performance with the tower vibration and load. Full article
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