Author:
Kirchner-Bossi Nicolas,Porté-Agel Fernando
Abstract
Wind Farm Layout Optimization (WFLO) can be useful to minimize power losses associated with turbine wakes in wind farms. This work presents a new evolutionary WFLO methodology integrated with a recently developed and successfully validated Gaussian wake model (Bastankhah and Porté-Agel model). Two different parametrizations of the evolutionary methodology are implemented, depending on if a baseline layout is considered or not. The proposed scheme is applied to two real wind farms, Horns Rev I (Denmark) and Princess Amalia (the Netherlands), and two different turbine models, V80-2MW and NREL-5MW. For comparison purposes, these four study cases are also optimized under the traditionally used top-hat wake model (Jensen model). A systematic overestimation of the wake losses by the Jensen model is confirmed herein. This allows it to attain bigger power output increases with respect to the baseline layouts (between 0.72% and 1.91%) compared to the solutions attained through the more realistic Gaussian model (0.24–0.95%). The proposed methodology is shown to outperform other recently developed layout optimization methods. Moreover, the electricity cable length needed to interconnect the turbines decreases up to 28.6% compared to the baseline layouts.
Funder
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Bundesamt für Energie
Subject
Energy (miscellaneous),Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Optimization,Engineering (miscellaneous)
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