Aeolus
Modelling and Control of Large-Scale Offshore Wind Farms
NB: due to the travel situation this side event has been cancelled
Thursday, 22 April 2010
11:30 – 13:30
Room D, Hall 4
Aeolus is a European research project under the IST framework programme 7. The main goal of Aeolus is to research and develop models and controls that allow real-time predictions and dynamic management of the wind flow.
The project is inspired by the industrial case of offshore wind farms. We use models of the wind flow as a basis for new control paradigms; centralized and distributed that acknowledges the uncertainty in the modelling and dynamically manages the wind resource among the wind turbines in a farm in order to optimise specific control objectives. The aim is to increase energy quality and generation while reducing fatigue loads. The usefulness of our techniques will be validated on a case study and by physical experiments on a scaled wind power farm.
Some results are already available through the Aeolus website: www.ict-aeolus.eu
In this event presentations will give an overview of the project along with the latest results. The focus is on wind flow models for control and the use of these in control systems. In addition results related to a wind farm control benchmark are presented.
11:30 - 11:45 | Introduction | Aeolus - Modeling and control of large-scale offshore wind farms |
11:45 - 12:15 | Wind farm flow modeling | A quasi-steady wind farm flow model in the context of distributed control of the wind farm |
12:15 - 13:00 | Wind farm control concepts | Supervisory wind farm control strategy |
13:00 - 13:15 | Farm control demonstration | Aeolus Toolbox for dynamic wind farm modeling, simulation, and control |
13:15 - 13:30 | Summary and outlook | Thomas Bak, Aalborg University |
13:30 | Closing |
