Mitigation of Fatigue Loads Using Individual Pitch Control of Wind Turbines Based on FAST

Yunqian Zhang, Zhe Chen, Ming Cheng, Jianzhong Zhang

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Abstract

With the increase of wind turbine dimension and capacity, the wind turbine structures are subjected to prominent loads and fatigue which would reduce the lifetime of wind turbines. Individual pitch control (IPC) is used in this paper to attenuate the blade root bending moment and the tilt and yaw moments and fatigue. The loading transfer from rotational coordinate system to the fixed coordinate system of the wind turbine is analyzed. In order to make the simulation results more reliable, the wind turbine code FAST is applied to doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) based power system to demonstrate the correctness of individual pitch control strategy. The performance of the proposed control method is tested and compared with that using collective pitch control (CPC), demonstrating the effectiveness of individual pitch control of wind turbines.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 46th International Universities' Power Engineering Conference, UPEC 2011
Number of pages6
PublisherIEEE Press
Publication date2011
ISBN (Print) 978-3-8007-3402-3
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event46th International Universities' Power Engineering Conference, UPEC 2011 - Soest , Germany
Duration: 5 Sept 20118 Sept 2011

Conference

Conference46th International Universities' Power Engineering Conference, UPEC 2011
Country/TerritoryGermany
CitySoest
Period05/09/201108/09/2011

Keywords

  • Blade loads
  • FAST
  • Individual pitch control
  • Wind turbine

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