This paper explores the influence of blockage and free-surface deformation on the hydrodynamic performance of a generic marine cross-flow turbine. Flows through a three-bladed turbine with solidity 0.125 are simulated at field-test blade Reynolds numbers, O(10(5)-10(6)), for three different cross-stream blockages: 12.5, 25 and 50 per cent. Two representations of the free-surface boundary are co...

Understanding and simulating the dynamic characteristics of hydro-turbine governor system is essential to guarantee safety hydro-power systems. This study proposes a modification method water head at draft tube inlet, which discretize introduce excitation term vortex rope. The proposed approach applied for modeling system. model (Model I) verified by means comparison with second II) without con...

Wind turbine manufacturers publish and certify power curves for their turbines. These turbine power curves are used for planning purposes and estimating total wind power production. When a wind plant consisting of many turbines connects to the utility grid and starts operation, the focus shifts to the entire plant’s performance. An equivalent wind plant power-curve becomes highly desirable and ...

The concept of a power curve is introduced, as well as the principles of the power conversion performed by a wind turbine. As an appropriate approach for the estimation of the annual power production of a wind turbine, the procedure to determine the power curve after the international standard IEC 61400 of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is discussed. As another approach is ...

This paper presents a robust control of Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) wind turbine in a sample power system. DFIG consists of a common induction generator with slip ring and a partial scale power electronic converter. Indirect fieldoriented controller is applied to rotor side converter for active power control and voltage regulation of wind turbine. On grid side PQ control scheme is app...

The electrical arc furnace (EAF) load is the largest load in power systems. Since electromechanical interactions between electrical loads and turbine-generator are seldom discussed, this paper investigates the torsional vibrations in turbine-generator shafts and blades subject to real and reactive power variations from a large-scale EAF plant. The transient power fluctuation of the load is rand...

In this paper the design methodology of parallel distributed fuzzy PID control is presented. The idea is to design a control law for each rule of the fuzzy controller and blend them together. The proposed parallel distributed fuzzy control algorithm is developed as a natural similarity to the conventional PID controller. This paper describes the structure and the design aspects of a fuzzy PID c...