Lidar-based wake tracking for closed-loop wind farm control

Raach, Steffen; Schlipf, David; Cheng, Po Wen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-257-2017

Articles | Volume 2, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-257-2017

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Special issue:

The Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE) 2016

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2-257-2017

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Articles | Volume 2, issue 1

Research article

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23 May 2017

Research article |

| 23 May 2017

Lidar-based wake tracking for closed-loop wind farm control

Steffen Raach, David Schlipf, and Po Wen Cheng

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Preprint (discussion started on 24 Jan 2017)

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Status: closed

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

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RC1: 'Interesting and useful work, but lacking in presentation quality.', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Feb 2017
- SC1: 'Lack in presentation', Steffen Raach, 02 Feb 2017
  - RC2: 'Supplemental material', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Feb 2017
    - SC2: 'Thank you. I finally found it.', Steffen Raach, 02 Feb 2017
- AC1: 'Thank you very much for your detailed review', Steffen Raach, 07 Mar 2017
  - AC2: 'Point-to-point reply and revised manuscript for RC1', Steffen Raach, 22 Mar 2017
RC3: 'Interesting subject for wind farm controls; needs a few changes', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Feb 2017
- AC3: 'Point-to-point reply and revised manuscript for RC2', Steffen Raach, 22 Mar 2017

Peer-review completion

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (13 Mar 2017) by Carlo L. Bottasso

AR by Steffen Raach on behalf of the Authors (22 Mar 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (23 Mar 2017) by Carlo L. Bottasso

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (23 Mar 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (02 Apr 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Apr 2017) by Carlo L. Bottasso

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (14 Apr 2017) by Carlo L. Bottasso (Chief editor)

AR by Steffen Raach on behalf of the Authors (25 Apr 2017) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This work provides a possible solution to closed-loop flow control in a wind farm. The remote sensing technology, lidar, which is a laser-based measurement system, is used to obtain wind speed information behind a wind turbine. The measurements are processed using a model-based approach to estimate position information of the wake. The information is then used in a controller to redirect the wake to the desired position. Altogether, the concept aims to increase the power output of a wind farm.