Control design, implementation, and evaluation for an in-field 500&thinsp;kW wind turbine with a fixed-displacement hydraulic drivetrain

Mulders, Sebastiaan Paul; Diepeveen, Niels Frederik Boudewijn; van Wingerden, Jan-Willem

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-615-2018

Articles | Volume 3, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-615-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-615-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 2

Research article

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12 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 12 Sep 2018

Control design, implementation, and evaluation for an in-field 500 kW wind turbine with a fixed-displacement hydraulic drivetrain

Sebastiaan Paul Mulders, Niels Frederik Boudewijn Diepeveen, and Jan-Willem van Wingerden

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Data set: Control design, implementation and evaluation for an in-field 500 kW wind turbine with a fixed-displacement hydraulic drivetrain S. P. Mulders, N. F. Boudewijn Diepeveen, and J.-W. van Wingerden https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1405387

Short summary

The modeling, operating strategy, and controller design for an actual in-field wind turbine with a fixed-displacement hydraulic drivetrain are presented. An analysis is given on a passive torque control strategy for below-rated operation. The turbine lacks the option to influence the system torque by a generator, so the turbine is regulated by a spear valve in the region between below- and above-rated operation. The control design is evaluated on a real-world 500 kW hydraulic wind turbine.