This paper proposes a fundamental and efficient control technique for introducing VSC (voltage source converter)based HVDC (high voltage direct current) transmission into a large-scale offshore wind power generation system with DFIGs (doubly-fed induction generators). The electric power from the offshore wind turbine DFIG is considerably fluctuating and unstable, and needs to be transmitted fro...

Nowadays, propagation of wind turbines make challenges to supply safe power to the grid. Because of wind speed changes, supervisors are concerned to wind turbines, be able to produce appropriate electric power during the wind speed changes. As a matter of fact, investors are mostly like to invest on offshore wind farms, because of their more stable and continuous wind speed rather than onshore ...

The taller and heavier OWT monopile structures has unique structural engineering design challenges which could lead to catastrophic under-conservative designs or more likely, expensive over-conservative engineering. need for an efficient cannot be overemphasised given the current configurations future monopiles novel concepts due cost of materials increasing towers foundations diameter thicknes...

Modelling of wind farms using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) resolving the flow field around each wind turbine’s blades on a moving computational grid is still too costly and time consuming in terms of computational capacity and effort. One strategy is to use sub-models for the wind turbines, and sub-grid models for turbulence production and dissipation to model the turbulent viscosity accu...

FAST, developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is a computer-aided engineering tool for aero-hydro-servo-elastic analysis of land-based and offshore wind turbines. This paper discusses the development of a new module (SubDyn), which when integrated to FAST, will enable loads simulations of offshore wind turbines with fixed-bottom, multimember support structures. The main theory an...

The wind turbine generator system requires a power conditioning circuit called power converter that is capable of adjusting the generator frequency and voltage to the grid. Several types of converter topologies have been developed in the last decades; each of them has some advantages and disadvantages. Mainly two converter topologies are currently used in the commercial wind turbine generator s...

Wind turbines can be considered as structures that are in between civil engineering structures and machines since they consist of structural components and many electrical and machine components together with a control system. Further, a wind turbine is not a one-of-a-kind structure but manufactured in series production based on many component tests, some prototype tests and zeroseries wind tur...

Condition monitoring (CM) systems are increasingly installed in wind turbines with the goal of providing component-specific information to wind farm operators, theoretically increasing equipment availability via maintenance and operating actions based on this information. In the offshore case, economic benefits of CM systems are often assumed to be substantial, as compared with experience of on...

Offshore wind turbine technology is moving forward as a cleaner alternative to the fossil fuelled power production. However, there are a number of challenges in offshore; wind turbines are subject to different loads that are not often experienced onshore and more importantly challenging wind and wave conditions limit the operability of the vessels needed to access offshore wind farms. As the po...

This paper presents a procedure for wind farm model simulation. The simulation model serves as a benchmark for controller development and verification in the EU-FP7 project Aeolus. A generic dynamic flow modeling relates single turbine production and fatigue load to the map of wind speeds. The model integrates the wind farm aerodynamics to the dynamics of individual turbines by means of wake me...