The wind industry seeks to design wind turbines to maximize energy production and increase fatigue life. To achieve this goal, we must design wind turbines to extract maximum energy and reduce component and system loads. This paper applies modern state-space control design methods to a two-bladed teetering-hub upwind machine located at the National Wind Technology Center. The design objective is to regulate turbine speed in region 3 (above rated wind speed) and enhance damping in several low-damped flexible modes of the turbine. The controls approach is based on the Disturbance Accommodating Control method and provides accountability for wind-speed disturbances. First, controls are designed with the single control input rotor collective pitch to stabilize the first drive-train torsion as well as the tower first fore-aft bending modes. Generator torque is then incorporated as an additional control input. This reduces some of the demand placed on the rotor collective pitch control system and enhances first drive train torsion mode damping. Individual blade pitch control is then used to attenuate wind disturbances having spatial variation over the rotor and effectively reduces blade flap deflections caused by wind shear.
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Design of Controls to Attenuate Loads in the Controls Advanced Research Turbine
Alan D. Wright,
e-mail: Alan_wright@nrel.gov
Alan D. Wright
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401
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Mark J. Balas, AIAA Fellow
e-mail: Mark.balas@colorado.edu
Mark J. Balas, AIAA Fellow
Department of Aerospace Engineering Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0429
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Alan D. Wright
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401
e-mail: Alan_wright@nrel.gov
Mark J. Balas, AIAA Fellow
Department of Aerospace Engineering Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0429
e-mail: Mark.balas@colorado.edu
Contributed by the Solar Energy Division of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the JOURNAL OF SOLAR ENERGY ENGINEERING. Manuscript received by the ASME Solar Division, January 15, 2004; final revision June 2, 2004. Associate Editor: P. Chaviaropoulos.
J. Sol. Energy Eng. Nov 2004, 126(4): 1083-1091 (9 pages)
Published Online: November 18, 2004
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Received:
January 15, 2004
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June 2, 2004
Online:
November 18, 2004
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Wright, A. D., and Balas, M. J. (November 18, 2004). "Design of Controls to Attenuate Loads in the Controls Advanced Research Turbine ." ASME. J. Sol. Energy Eng. November 2004; 126(4): 1083–1091. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1792654
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