Optimal Power Planning of Wind Turbines in a Wind Farm

Puneet Vishwakarma; Yunjun Xu; Kuo-Chi Lin

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Optimal Power Planning of Wind Turbines in a Wind Farm

Puneet Vishwakarma, Yunjun Xu, Kuo-Chi Lin

Published in American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Volume 6, Issue 2)

Received: 5 December 2016 Accepted: 21 March 2017 Published: 14 April 2017

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Abstract

Wind energy is attractive in the presence of climate concerns and has the potential to dramatically reduce the dependency on nonrenewable energy resources. With the increase in wind farms there is a need to improve the efficiency in power allocation and power generation among wind turbines. In this paper, a hierarchical algorithm including a cooperative level and an individual level is developed for power coordination and planning in a wind farm. In the cooperative level, a constrained quadratic programming problem is formulated and solved to allocate the power to wind turbines considering the aerodynamic effects of wake interaction and the power generation capabilities of wind turbines. In the individual level, a method based on the local pursuit strategy is studied to connect the cooperative level power allocation and the individual level power generation using a virtual leader-follower scheme. The stability of individual wind turbine power generation is analyzed. Simulations are used to show the advantages of the method.

Published in	American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.epes.20170602.11
Page(s)	7-15
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wind Turbine, Coordinated Control, Wind Farm

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Puneet Vishwakarma, Yunjun Xu, Kuo-Chi Lin. (2017). Optimal Power Planning of Wind Turbines in a Wind Farm. American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 6(2), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.epes.20170602.11

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Puneet Vishwakarma, Yunjun Xu, Kuo-Chi Lin. Optimal Power Planning of Wind Turbines in a Wind Farm. Am J Electr Power Energy Syst. 2017;6(2):7-15. doi: 10.11648/j.epes.20170602.11

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Puneet Vishwakarma

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
Yunjun Xu

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
Kuo-Chi Lin

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

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Puneet Vishwakarma; Yunjun Xu; Kuo-Chi Lin. Optimal Power Planning of Wind Turbines in a Wind Farm. Am. J. Electr. Power Energy Syst. 2017, 6(2), 7-15. doi: 10.11648/j.epes.20170602.11

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Puneet Vishwakarma, Yunjun Xu, Kuo-Chi Lin. Optimal Power Planning of Wind Turbines in a Wind Farm. Am J Electr Power Energy Syst. 2017;6(2):7-15. doi: 10.11648/j.epes.20170602.11

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