Blade-Pitch Control for Wind Turbine Load Reductions

• Main Author: Lio, Wai Hou (Alan) (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Renewable energy resources.; Control engineering.; Mechanical engineering.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Control and Systems Theory.; Mechanical Engineering.

This thesis investigates the use of blade-pitch control and real-time wind measurements to reduce the structural loads on the rotors and blades of wind turbines. The first part of the thesis studies the main similarities between the various classes of current blade-pitch control strategies, which ha...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Background of Wind Turbine Blade-Pitch Load Reduction Control
• Review of the Related Work
• Performance Similarities between Individual Pitch Control Strategies
• Estimation and Control Design for Tower Motions
• Feed-Forward Model Predictive Control Design based upon a Feedback Controller
• Feed-Forward Model Predictive Control Layer on Wind Turbines
• Conclusions and Future Work.