Lidar-Enhanced Wind Turbine Control: Past, Present, and Future: Preprint

Conference · Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2016.7525113· OSTI ID:1266694

Scholbrock, Andrew; Fleming, Paul; Wright, Alan; Wang, Na; Schlipf, David; Johnson, Kathryn

This paper will look at the development of lidar-enhanced controls and how they have been used for turbine load reduction with pitch actuation, as well as increased energy production with improved yaw control. Ongoing work will also be discussed to show that combining pitch and torque control using feedforward nonlinear model predictive control can lead to both reduced loads and increased energy production. Future work is also proposed on extending individual wind turbine controls to the wind plant level and determining how lidars can be used for control methods to further lower the cost of wind energy by minimizing wake impacts in a wind farm.

• Research Organization: NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States))
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind and Water Technologies Office (EE-4W)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1266694
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-5000-65879
• Conference Information: Presented at the 2016 American Control Conference, 6-8 July 2016, Boston, Massachusetts
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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