Current lidar technology is offering a promising opportunity to take a fresh look at wind turbine control. This work evaluates a flatness-based feedforward approach, that allows to calculate the control action based on trajectories of the rotor speed and tower motion using wind measurements. The trajectories are planned online considering actuator constrains to regulate the rotor speed and mini...

This paper is concerned with bump-less transfer of parametrized disturbance observer 1 based controller (DOBC) with Individual Pitch Control (IPC) strategy for full load operation of wind 2 turbine. Aerodynamic cyclic loads are reduced by tuning multivariable DOBC with the objective 3 to reduce output power fluctuation, tower oscillation and drive-train torsion. Furthermore tower 4 shadow and w...

Today, many small aerodromes struggle with financial difficulties, and a large cost is air traffic control. Remote tower centers, which remotely provide air traffic services to aerodromes, can help reduce this cost. Each center may contain a number of remote tower modules, where each module is manned by a controller that can handle one or more aerodromes. In this paper we present the remote tow...

Introduction Fatigue is the structural damage that leads the components of a wind turbine to sudden brittle failure when it suffers cyclic loading [15]. As the size of wind turbines is growing, fatigue loads become more and more significant for the design of major structural components. Concerning fatigue in a wind turbine tower, the fore-aft tower foot bending moment is considered as the most ...

As an important quality index of high voltage electricity transmission tower, zinc coating thickness detection and quality control is more and more attention in recent years. The coating thickness and uniformity of tower materials provided by the suppliers are tested through the traditional method by the power department, the detection precision of this method is low efficiency and analysis res...

The cardiovascular system is a complex arrangement of hydraulic, yet living, components. The complexity of this system may make it difficult for students to see the "forest" instead of the "trees." To better explain the dynamics of cardiovascular function and control, an analogy has been drawn to the operation of a city water supply. In cities that use a water tower, fresh water is pumped up in...

On July 9, 2013, an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (LD) was identified at Long-Term Care Facility A in central Ohio. This article describes the investigation of the outbreak and identification of the outbreak source, a cooling tower using an automated biocide delivery system. In total, 39 outbreak LD cases were identified; among these, six patients died. Water samples from a cooling tower we...

Negative aerodynamic damping causes tower vibrations on turbines with stall rotors. Under certain conditions, these vibrations may rise to a level that causes a shutdown. Active stall turbines have a pitch system, and the objective of the work was to develop pitch control algorithms which would minimise the probability of tower vibrations rising to the shutdown level. The results of a root caus...