Simulation and control of windfarms

Thesis

This thesis examines the design of supervisory controllers for windfarms of pitch-controlled wind turbines. The control objectives are the maximisation of the financial income from the generated electricity and the minimisation of the turbines' fatigue damage. The design exploits the wide variations in the ratio of financial income to fatigue damage which are found both spatially across windfarms and as a function of time. The supervisory control strategy makes use of the ability of pitch-...

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Authors: Spruce, C; Christopher John Spruce

• Publication date: 1993
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: wind turbine; optimisation; supervisory control; fatigue; wind power plant; genetic algorithm; mechanical engineering; control engineering; wind energy
• Subjects: Fatigue; Mechanical engineering; Wind energy; Control engineering