The wind-wave tunnel test of a tension-leg platform type floating offshore wind turbine

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 063117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nianxin Ren ◽  
Yugang Li ◽  
Jinping Ou
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Wave ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Tension Leg Platform ◽  
Floating Offshore Wind Turbine

scholarly journals Application of adaptive fuzzy control to suppression vibration response of floating offshore wind turbine

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-248
Author(s):  
Jiajia Yang ◽  
Erming He ◽  
Juncheng Shu
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Passive Control ◽  
Wind Wave ◽  
Fuzzy Controller ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Structural Parameter ◽  
Floating Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Adaptive Fuzzy

Floating offshore wind turbine is a complex rigid-flexible coupling nonlinear system, and the accurate dynamic model is difficultly established. Therefore, the wind-wave interference cannot be improved by adopting the conventional control strategy. In order to solve this problem, an adaptive fuzzy controller (AFC) is used to suppress the dynamic response of floating wind turbine. Two correction factors are introduced to optimize the fuzzy rule, and the traditional fuzzy controller (FC) is firstly obtained. Since the balance positions change and structural parameter perturbation of the wind turbine, an AFC is designed and validated. Finally, the suppression vibration responses ability of floating offshore wind turbine by using the different control strategies is studied under the random wind-wave disturbance and blade pitch control system coupling effect. The simulation results show that the tracking ability of the AFC to the target value is obviously higher than that of the FC; Comparing with the passive control strategy, the suppression vibration effect on the power spectral density (PSD) of the platform pitch (PFPI) motion peak can increase by 39.06% by adopting the AFC.

Coupled Dynamic Analysis of a Tension Leg Platform Floating Offshore Wind Turbine

2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teng Wang ◽  
Hui Jin ◽  
Xiaoni Wu
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Wind Loads ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Wave Loads ◽  
Tension Leg Platform ◽  
Floating Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Turbulent Wind ◽  
Coupled Dynamic Analysis

The dynamic response of a tension leg platform (TLP) floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) was analyzed with considering the aero-hydro characteristic of the whole floating wind turbine system including the wind turbine, TLP platform, and tethers. The “aero-hydro” coupled dynamic analysis was conducted in ansys-aqwa with a dynamic link library (DLL) calculating the aerodynamics loading at every steptime based on the blade element momentum theory. Results from the coupled dynamic analysis of TLP FOWT under the condition of turbulent wind and regular wave show that the wind loads influence mainly the low-frequency response of the TLP FOWT. The wind loads have a large impact on the offsets of the TLP away from the initial position while the wave loads influence mainly the fluctuation amplitude of the TLP FOWT. The average TLP pitch response under the wind load is significantly larger due to the large wind-induced heeling moment on the wind turbine. In addition, the tension of tethers at the upwind end is greater than that at the downwind end. The wind loads could reduce effectively the average tension of the tethers, and the tension of tethers is significantly affected by the pitch motion. Results from the coupled dynamic analysis of TLP FOWT under the condition of turbulent wind and irregular wave show that the surge and pitch of TLP result in an obvious increase of thrust of the turbine and the amplitude of torque fluctuation, more attention should be paid to the pitch and surge motion of TLP FOWT.

Control Oriented Dynamic Modeling of a Tension-Leg Platform Based Floating Offshore Wind Turbine With Dynamic Vibration Absorbers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongyou Wu ◽  
Yaoyu Li
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Controller Design ◽  
Lagrange Equation ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Tension Leg Platform ◽  
Floating Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbine Tower ◽  
Lqr Controller ◽  
Load Increase

Due to platform motions, floating offshore wind turbine loads are increased. Among proposed platform concepts, tension leg platform introduces least wind turbine load increase. To reduce wind turbine loads, extra actuators have been added to the platform to suppress the tension leg platform motion. For these actuators controller design, it is critical to derive a mathematical model of the platform-wind turbine-actuator system. In this paper, a reduced 13 DOFs model is derived using Lagrange equation and validated with simulation results from FAST. This reduced model is simple, but accurate enough to predict wind turbine and platform response under wind and wave disturbance. Based on the proposed model, an LQR controller is designed. One simulation case shows that the wind turbine tower load can be effectively reduced by actively controlled DVAs.

scholarly journals Wind/Wave Misalignment in the Loads Analysis of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Barj ◽  
Jason M. Jonkman ◽  
Amy Robertson ◽  
Gordon M. Stewart ◽  
Matthew A. Lackner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Wave ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Floating Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Loads Analysis

Coupled Dynamic Response of a Spar Type Floating Offshore Wind Turbine

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Peng ◽  
Fasuo Yan ◽  
Jun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Wave ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Numerical Code ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Mooring System ◽  
Floating Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Near Future

FOWTs (Floating Offshore Wind Turbine) are feasible renewable devices to harness the wind energy in the near future. However, because of the complicated interactions among wind turbine, mooring system and the hull, the motion of a FOWT under the impact of severe wind, wave and current has not been well studied yet. This research focuses on the coupled numerical analysis of a FOWT. A numerical code COUPLE-FAST is developed by integrating two existing codes, namely, COUPLE and FAST, to carry out the task. In this study, a particular FOWT model is chosen for the numerical simulation, which consists of a NREL 5-MW baseline wind turbine and OC3-Hywind Spar. Although the numerical simulation is limited to this particular type of FOWTs, the results and related code (COUPLE-FAST) may be helpful to the design of FOWTs in the future.

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