Validation of FAST.Farm Against Full-Scale Turbine SCADA Data for a Small Wind Farm

Journal Article · Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Journal of Physics. Conference Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1618/6/062061· OSTI ID:1665799

Shaler, Kelsey  ^[1]; Debnath, Mithu  ^[1]; Jonkman, Jason  ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

FAST.Farm is a new midfidelity engineering tool developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory targeted at accurately and efficiently predicting wind turbine power production and structural loading in wind farm settings, including wake interactions between turbines. FAST.Farm is based on some of the principles of the Dynamic Wake Meandering model—including passive tracer modeling of wake meandering—but addresses many of the limitations of previous Dynamic Wake Meandering (DWM) implementations. Previous FAST.Farm verification studies show the similarities and differences between FAST.Farm and large-eddy simulations for rigid and flexible turbines. In this validation study, FAST.Farm turbine responses are compared to multiturbine measurements from a subset of a full-scale wind farm. FAST.Farm predictions of turbine generator power, rotor speed, and blade pitch for five-turbine simulations are compared to supervisory control and data acquisition results. Results reveal that FAST.Farm generator power mean and standard deviation results reasonably match measured data for upstream and downstream turbines, as well as the mean rotor speed and blade pitch above rated wind speeds. However, FAST.Farm generally underpredicts the mean rotor speed and overpredicts the mean blade pitch below rated operation. These errors are likely related to inaccuracies in the generic controller simulated. Despite controller differences, FAST.Farm predicts the same overall relative rotor power trends for all waked turbines at all wind speeds.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind Energy Technologies Office (EE-4W)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1665799
• Report Number(s): NREL/JA-5000-76760; MainId:9421; UUID:dc799561-e4f6-4969-99ee-3d32fc4f40b7; MainAdminID:15182
• Journal Information: Journal of Physics. Conference Series, Vol. 1618; ISSN 1742-6588
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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