Investigation of the complete power conversion chain for small vertical- and horizontal-axis wind turbines in turbulent winds
(2018) Journal of Physics: Conference Series — Vol. 1037, n° 1037, p. 72046 (2018)
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- The study of wind turbines requires a multidisciplinary approach that covers the electrical, mechanical and aerodynamic aspects. Most wind turbine studies focus their modelization effort on a single aspect and rely on simplified models for the other ones. The present paper aims at a complete modelization and investigation of the energy conversion chain of small wind turbines (up to 100kW), going from the turbulent wind resource to the electrical power injected into the grid. For that purpose, the following computational chain is set up: a synthetic turbulence is used as inflow to a Vortex Particle-Mesh method which computes the wind turbine coarse scale aerodynamics taking into account the rotor dynamics; the aero-mechanical results are used to feed an electrical simulation and the consistency of both simulations is ensured by using a common Maximum Power Point Tracking algorithm. We apply this methodology to compare the behavior of horizontal- and vertical-axis machines in a turbulent wind with two different turbulent intensities (low T I = 8.3% and high T I = 16%).
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UMons Mechanical Engineering Department
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Duponcheel, M., Leroi, C., Zeoli, S., Winckelmans, G., Bricteux, L., De Jaeger, E., & Chatelain, P. (2018). Investigation of the complete power conversion chain for small vertical- and horizontal-axis wind turbines in turbulent winds. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1037(1037), 72046. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1037/7/072046 (Original work published 2018)