An active power control approach for wake-induced load alleviation in a fully developed wind farm boundary layer

Vali, Mehdi; Petrović, Vlaho; Steinfeld, Gerald; Y. Pao, Lucy; Kühn, Martin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-139-2019

Articles | Volume 4, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-139-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-4-139-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 4, issue 1

Research article

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14 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 14 Mar 2019

An active power control approach for wake-induced load alleviation in a fully developed wind farm boundary layer

Mehdi Vali, Vlaho Petrović, Gerald Steinfeld, Lucy Y. Pao, and Martin Kühn

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Final revised paper (published on 14 Mar 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 03 Dec 2018)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'References', Sjoerd Boersma, 06 Dec 2018
- AC1: 'Responses to S. Boersma', Mehdi Vali, 12 Feb 2019
RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Dec 2018
- AC2: 'Responses to Referee #1', Mehdi Vali, 12 Feb 2019
RC2: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Jan 2019
- AC3: 'Responses to Referee #2', Mehdi Vali, 12 Feb 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Mehdi Vali on behalf of the Authors (15 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (20 Feb 2019) by Mingming Zhang

ED: Publish as is (22 Feb 2019) by Jakob Mann (Chief editor)

AR by Mehdi Vali on behalf of the Authors (25 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

A new active power control (APC) approach is investigated to simultaneously reduce the wake-induced power tracking errors and structural fatigue loads of individual turbines within a wind farm. The non-unique solution of the APC problem with respect to the distribution of the individual powers is exploited. The simple control architecture and practical measurement system make the proposed approach prominent for real-time control of large wind farms with turbulent flows and wakes.