Optimization Under Uncertainty for Wake Steering Strategies

Wake Conference 2017

Quick, Julian^1 ; Annoni, Jennifer^1 ; King, Ryan^1 ; Dykes, Katherine^1 ; Fleming, Paul^1 ; Ning, Andrew^2

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Pkwy, Golden

CO

80401, United States^1

Department of Mechanical University, Brigham Young University, Provo

UT

84602, United States^2

关键词: Aerodynamic interactions;    Annual average;    Control strategies;    Deterministic optimization;    Downside risks;    Optimization under uncertainty;    Perfect informations;    Power-losses;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/854/1/012036/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/854/1/012036

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Wind turbines in a wind power plant experience significant power losses because of aerodynamic interactions between turbines. One control strategy to reduce these losses is known as "wake steering," in which upstream turbines are yawed to direct wakes away from downstream turbines. Previous wake steering research has assumed perfect information, however, there can be significant uncertainty in many aspects of the problem, including wind inflow and various turbine measurements. Uncertainty has significant implications for performance of wake steering strategies. Consequently, the authors formulate and solve an optimization under uncertainty (OUU) problem for finding optimal wake steering strategies in the presence of yaw angle uncertainty. The OUU wake steering strategy is demonstrated on a two-turbine test case and on the utility-scale, offshore Princess Amalia Wind Farm. When we accounted for yaw angle uncertainty in the Princess Amalia Wind Farm case, inflow-direction-specific OUU solutions produced between 0% and 1.4% more power than the deterministically optimized steering strategies, resulting in an overall annual average improvement of 0.2%. More importantly, the deterministic optimization is expected to perform worse and with more downside risk than the OUU result when realistic uncertainty is taken into account. Additionally, the OUU solution produces fewer extreme yaw situations than the deterministic solution.