Grid Simulator for Testing a Wind Turbine on Offshore Floating Platform

Gevorgian, V.

关键词: CABLES;    ROUTING;    SEAS;    SIMULATORS;    TESTING;    WIND TURBINES;    OFFSHORE PLATFORMS;    WIND POWER OFFSHORE FLOATING PLATFORM;    OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE TESTING;    GRID SIMULATOR;    Electricity;    Resources;    and Buildings Systems;    Wind Energy;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1036049
RP-ID  :  NREL/TP-5500-53813
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1036049
Others  :  TRN: US201206%%69

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

An important aspect of such offshore testing of a wind turbine floating platform is electrical loading of the wind turbine generator. An option of interconnecting the floating wind turbine with the onshore grid via submarine power cable is limited by many factors such as costs and associated environmental aspects (i.e., an expensive and lengthy sea floor study is needed for cable routing, burial, etc). It appears to be a more cost effective solution to implement a standalone grid simulator on a floating platform itself for electrical loading of the test wind turbine. Such a grid simulator must create a stable fault-resilient voltage and frequency bus (a micro grid) for continuous operation of the test wind turbine. In this report, several electrical topologies for an offshore grid simulator were analyzed and modeled.