Control technologies are innovated to satisfy increasingly complicated control demands of gas turbine engines.In terms of limit protection control,a novel model-based multivariable limit protection control method,whic...Control technologies are innovated to satisfy increasingly complicated control demands of gas turbine engines.In terms of limit protection control,a novel model-based multivariable limit protection control method,which is achieved by adaptive command reconstruction and multiplecontrol loop selection and switch logic,is proposed in this paper to address the problem of balancing smaller thrust loss and safe operations by comparing with widely-used Min-Max logic.Five different combination modes of control loops,which represent the online control loop of last time instant and that of current time instant,is analyzed.Different command reconstructions are designed for these modes,which is based on static gain conversion of amplitude beyond limits by using an onboard model.The double-prediction based control loop selection and switch logic is developed to choose a control loop appropriately by comparing converted amplitude beyond limits regardless of one or more parameters tending to exceed limits.The proposed method is implemented in a twin-spool turbofan engine to achieve limit protection with direct thrust control,and the loss of thrust is improved by about 30% in comparison with the loss of thrust caused by Min-Max logic when limit protection control is activated,which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
This paper addresses joint wind-wave induced dynamic responses of a semi-type offshore floating wind turbine（OFWT） under normal states and fault event conditions. The analysis in this paper is conducted in time doma...This paper addresses joint wind-wave induced dynamic responses of a semi-type offshore floating wind turbine（OFWT） under normal states and fault event conditions. The analysis in this paper is conducted in time domain, using an aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulation code-FAST. Owing to the unique viscous features of the reference system, the original viscous damping model implemented in FAST is replaced with a quadratic one to gain an accurate capture of viscous effects. Simulation cases involve free-decay motion in still water, steady motions in the presence of regular waves and wind as well as dynamic response in operational sea states with and without wind. Simulations also include the cases for transient responses induced by fast blade pitching after emergency shutdown. The features of platform motions, local structural loads and a typical mooring line tension force under a variety of excitations are obtained and investigated.展开更多
Electric and magnetic fields generated by lightning cause a serious hazard to various systems.Now wind turbine installations with higher power capacity are increasing.Higher power capacity requires higher height and s...Electric and magnetic fields generated by lightning cause a serious hazard to various systems.Now wind turbine installations with higher power capacity are increasing.Higher power capacity requires higher height and so there is more probability of lightning strike.Blades are the most probable components to be struck by lightning.The most common lightning protection system for the blades consists of several metallic receptors on the blade surface.Those are connected to the ground by metallic down-conductors placed inside the blade shell.This paper studies effects of the receptor configurations on protecting the blade against lightning strike.For this purpose,an analysis procedure based on finite element method(FEM)in COMSOL Multiphysics software environment is used.The voltage distribution around the blade is simulated for various configurations of receptors.The best configuration is presented.Simulations are performed on the blade model of a special wind turbine,which isVESTAS V47".展开更多
There were many accidents of large-scale wind turbines disconnecting from power grid in 2011.As singlephase-to-ground fault cannot be correctly detected,single-phase-to-ground fault evolved to phase-to-phase fault.Pha...There were many accidents of large-scale wind turbines disconnecting from power grid in 2011.As singlephase-to-ground fault cannot be correctly detected,single-phase-to-ground fault evolved to phase-to-phase fault.Phase-to-phase fault was isolated slowly,thus leading to low voltage.And wind turbines without enough low voltage ride-through capacity had to be disconnected from the grid.After some wind turbines being disconnected from the grid,overvoltage caused by reactive power surplus made more wind turbines disconnect from the grid.Based on the accident analysis,this paper presents solutions to above problems,including travelling waves based single-phase-to-ground protection,adaptive low voltage protection,integrated protection and control,and high impedance fault detection.The solutions lay foundations in theory and technology to prevent large-scale wind turbines disconnecting from the operating power grid.展开更多
Penetration of the power generated using wind and solar energy to electrical grid network causing several incidents of the grid tripping, power outage, and frequency drooping. This has increased restart （star-stop） ...Penetration of the power generated using wind and solar energy to electrical grid network causing several incidents of the grid tripping, power outage, and frequency drooping. This has increased restart （star-stop） cycles of the hydroelectric turbines significantly since grid connected hydroelectric turbines are widely used to manage critical conditions of the grid. Each cycle induces significant stresses due to unsteady pressure loading on the runner blades. The presented work investigates the pressure loading to a high head （ He = 377 m, De = 1.78 m） Francis turbine during start-stop. The measurements were carried out on a scaled model turbine （HM = 12.5 m, DM = 0.349 m）. Total four operating points were considered. At each operating point, three schemes of guide vanes opening and three schemes of guide vanes closing were investigated. The results show that total head variation is up to 9% during start-stop of the turbine. On the runner blade, the maximum pressure amplitudes are about 14 kPa and 16 kPa from the instantaneous mean value of 121 kPa during rapid start-up and shutdown, respectively, which are about 1.5 times larger than that of the slow start-up and shutdown. Moreover, the maximum pressure fluctuations are given at the blade trailing edge.展开更多
Generally, lightning damage has mainly been to home appliances and telephones, towers and power transmission and generation equipment mal functions and damage due to strikes on power lines. With the adoption of wind p...Generally, lightning damage has mainly been to home appliances and telephones, towers and power transmission and generation equipment mal functions and damage due to strikes on power lines. With the adoption of wind power generation equipment, however, lightning damage is also increasing in this area. Through his dimensional characteristics, the wind power system is more exposed in the nature compared to all others systems. Lightning damage is the single largest cause of unplanned downtime in wind turbines, and that downtime is responsible for the loss of countless megawatts of power generation. The wind turbines are important structures, since they can easily attract the wrath of storms hits heights close, they can also capture the most distant. The rotation of the blades may also trigger lightning and result in considerable increase in the number of strikes to a wind turbine unit. Since wind turbines are tall structures, the lightning currents that are injected by return strokes into the turbines will be affected by reflections at the top, at the bottom, and at the junction of the blades with the static base of the turbine. We present our contribution in this paper to study lightning strokes and their effects on the wind turbines with the aim to enrich the work and to suggest more effective means of protection against lightning.展开更多
After several instances of sub-synchronous oscillation(SSO)events occurred at wind farms(WFs)with Type-4 wind turbine generators(Type-4 WTGs),the phenomenon has attracted wide attention.The emerging SSO events observe...After several instances of sub-synchronous oscillation(SSO)events occurred at wind farms(WFs)with Type-4 wind turbine generators(Type-4 WTGs),the phenomenon has attracted wide attention.The emerging SSO events observed in Type-4 WTG-based WFs are more complex than those previously observed in thermal power plants or Type-3 WTG-based WFs.The SSO(for example,occurred in Hami Type-4 WTG-based WF,China),could be triggered without the involvement of series compensation in the transmission system.Firstly,this paper discusses and summarizes the previous definitions and classifications,and an improved SSO classification is proposed by supplementing the conventional IEEE classification in the view of Type-4 WTG-related SSO.Secondly,an overview of identification methods for SSO sources and the applicable scope of these methods is evaluated.Then,mitigation and protection measures available for addressing the Type-4 WTG-related SSO are comprehensively reviewed.In addition,lessons learned from real-world SSO events,stakeholders’perspectives,as well as challenges and potential further study of the Type-4 WTGrelated SSO are discussed.This review aims to enhance the understanding of the SSO associated with Type-4 WTGs and contribute to the development of effective solutions to mitigate the phenomenon in power systems.展开更多
Future power systems face several challenges.One of them is the use of high power converters that decouple new energy sources from the AC power grid.This situation decreases the total system inertia affecting its abil...Future power systems face several challenges.One of them is the use of high power converters that decouple new energy sources from the AC power grid.This situation decreases the total system inertia affecting its ability to overcome system frequency disturbances.The wind power industry has created several controllers to enable inertial response on wind turbines generators:artificial,emulated,simulated,or synthetic inertial.This paper deals with the issues related to the emulated inertia of wind turbines based on full-converters and their effect on the under-frequency protection schemes during the recovery period after system frequency disturbances happen.The main contribution of this paper is to demonstrate the recovery period of under-frequency transients in future power systems which integrate wind turbines with emulated inertia capability does not completely avoid the worse scenarios in terms of under-frequency load shedding.The extra power delivered from a wind turbine during frequency disturbances can substantially reduce the rate of frequency change.Thus it provides time for the active governors to respond.展开更多
Large integration of doubly-fed induction generator(DFIG)based wind turbines(WTs)into power networks can have significant consequences for power system operation and the quality of the energy supplied due to their exc...Large integration of doubly-fed induction generator(DFIG)based wind turbines(WTs)into power networks can have significant consequences for power system operation and the quality of the energy supplied due to their excessive sensitivity towards grid disturbances.Under voltage dips,the resulting overcurrent and overvoltage in the rotor circuit and the DC link of a DFIG,could lead to the activation of the protection system and WT disconnection.This potentially results in sudden loss of several tens/hundreds of MWs of energy,and consequently intensifying the severity of the fault.This paper aims to combine the use of a crowbar protection circuit and a robust backstepping control strategy that takes into consideration of the dynamics of the magnetic flux,to improve DFIG’s Low-Voltage Ride Through capability and fulfill the latest grid code requirements.While the power electronic interfaces are protected,the WTs also provide large reactive power during the fault to assist system voltage recovery.Simulation results using Matlab/Simulink demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy in terms of dynamic response and robustness against parametric variations.展开更多
Integration of distributed generation(DG)can change the fault current level and direction in the distribution system,which affects the related protection system.In order to limit the negative impact of DG integration ...Integration of distributed generation(DG)can change the fault current level and direction in the distribution system,which affects the related protection system.In order to limit the negative impact of DG integration and upgrade the protection system performance,an intelligent coordinated protection and control strategy is proposed.A cost based optimization method is adopted to minimize the operation costs of possible solutions.Its aim is to define the optimal relay settings for the present operation condition,and the most suitable control mode of converter based wind turbine DG.Case studies on a hardware in the loop real time simulation platform demonstrate the proposed protection strategy.展开更多
Model-based control shows promising potential for engine performance improve-ment and future aero-propulsion requirements.In this paper,an auto-updating thrust variation mitigation(AuTVM)control approach using on-boar...Model-based control shows promising potential for engine performance improve-ment and future aero-propulsion requirements.In this paper,an auto-updating thrust variation mitigation(AuTVM)control approach using on-board model strategies is proposed for gas tur-bine aero-engines under in-service degradation effects,which aims at active thrust regulation and acceleration protection in a simultaneous way.The AuTVM control is integrated with an on-line block,based on a reliable on-board engine model,and an off-line part for the periodical update of control parameters via post-flight engine monitoring data.The core feature of the AuTVM control is a set of auto-updating loops within the on-line part,including thrust regu-lation loop,surge margin loop,turbine entry temperature loop,and the steady loop,whose con-trol parameters are periodically adjusted with increasingflight cycles.Meanwhile,an industrial sensor-based baseline controller and two tailored model-based controllers,i.e.,a thrust variation mitigation(TVM)controller withfixed gains and a self-enhancing active transient protection(SeATP)controller with pro-active transient protection and passive thrust control,are also developed as comparison bases.Numerical simulations for idle to full-power acceleration tests are carried on a validated aero-thermal turbofan engine model using publicly available degra-dation data.Simulation results demonstrate that both new engines and severely degraded en-gines regulated by the AuTVM controller show significant thrust response enhancement,compared to the baseline controller.Moreover,thrust variation at the maximum steady state of degraded engines,which exists within the SeATP controller and the baseline controller,is suppressed by the proposed AuTVM controller.Robustness analysis against degradation uncer-tainties and sensor accuracy confirms that the AuTVM controller owns a closer maximum steady-state thrust distribution to the desired value than those of the SeATP and the baseline controller while utilizing transient margins of controlled engines more effectively.Hence,the control performance of the AuTVM controller for in-service engines is guaranteed.展开更多
基金supported by China Scholarship Council(No.201906830081)。
文摘Control technologies are innovated to satisfy increasingly complicated control demands of gas turbine engines.In terms of limit protection control,a novel model-based multivariable limit protection control method,which is achieved by adaptive command reconstruction and multiplecontrol loop selection and switch logic,is proposed in this paper to address the problem of balancing smaller thrust loss and safe operations by comparing with widely-used Min-Max logic.Five different combination modes of control loops,which represent the online control loop of last time instant and that of current time instant,is analyzed.Different command reconstructions are designed for these modes,which is based on static gain conversion of amplitude beyond limits by using an onboard model.The double-prediction based control loop selection and switch logic is developed to choose a control loop appropriately by comparing converted amplitude beyond limits regardless of one or more parameters tending to exceed limits.The proposed method is implemented in a twin-spool turbofan engine to achieve limit protection with direct thrust control,and the loss of thrust is improved by about 30% in comparison with the loss of thrust caused by Min-Max logic when limit protection control is activated,which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51239007)
文摘This paper addresses joint wind-wave induced dynamic responses of a semi-type offshore floating wind turbine（OFWT） under normal states and fault event conditions. The analysis in this paper is conducted in time domain, using an aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulation code-FAST. Owing to the unique viscous features of the reference system, the original viscous damping model implemented in FAST is replaced with a quadratic one to gain an accurate capture of viscous effects. Simulation cases involve free-decay motion in still water, steady motions in the presence of regular waves and wind as well as dynamic response in operational sea states with and without wind. Simulations also include the cases for transient responses induced by fast blade pitching after emergency shutdown. The features of platform motions, local structural loads and a typical mooring line tension force under a variety of excitations are obtained and investigated.
文摘Electric and magnetic fields generated by lightning cause a serious hazard to various systems.Now wind turbine installations with higher power capacity are increasing.Higher power capacity requires higher height and so there is more probability of lightning strike.Blades are the most probable components to be struck by lightning.The most common lightning protection system for the blades consists of several metallic receptors on the blade surface.Those are connected to the ground by metallic down-conductors placed inside the blade shell.This paper studies effects of the receptor configurations on protecting the blade against lightning strike.For this purpose,an analysis procedure based on finite element method(FEM)in COMSOL Multiphysics software environment is used.The voltage distribution around the blade is simulated for various configurations of receptors.The best configuration is presented.Simulations are performed on the blade model of a special wind turbine,which isVESTAS V47".
基金supported by Major International Collaborative Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51120175001)Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50937003)
文摘There were many accidents of large-scale wind turbines disconnecting from power grid in 2011.As singlephase-to-ground fault cannot be correctly detected,single-phase-to-ground fault evolved to phase-to-phase fault.Phase-to-phase fault was isolated slowly,thus leading to low voltage.And wind turbines without enough low voltage ride-through capacity had to be disconnected from the grid.After some wind turbines being disconnected from the grid,overvoltage caused by reactive power surplus made more wind turbines disconnect from the grid.Based on the accident analysis,this paper presents solutions to above problems,including travelling waves based single-phase-to-ground protection,adaptive low voltage protection,integrated protection and control,and high impedance fault detection.The solutions lay foundations in theory and technology to prevent large-scale wind turbines disconnecting from the operating power grid.
基金the Swedish Waterpower Centre(SVC)for the financial support.SVC has been established by the Swedish Energy Agency,Elforsk and SvenskaKraftnat together with LuleUniversity of Technology,the Royal Institute of Technology,Chalmers University of Technology and Uppsala University(www.svc.nu)
文摘Penetration of the power generated using wind and solar energy to electrical grid network causing several incidents of the grid tripping, power outage, and frequency drooping. This has increased restart （star-stop） cycles of the hydroelectric turbines significantly since grid connected hydroelectric turbines are widely used to manage critical conditions of the grid. Each cycle induces significant stresses due to unsteady pressure loading on the runner blades. The presented work investigates the pressure loading to a high head （ He = 377 m, De = 1.78 m） Francis turbine during start-stop. The measurements were carried out on a scaled model turbine （HM = 12.5 m, DM = 0.349 m）. Total four operating points were considered. At each operating point, three schemes of guide vanes opening and three schemes of guide vanes closing were investigated. The results show that total head variation is up to 9% during start-stop of the turbine. On the runner blade, the maximum pressure amplitudes are about 14 kPa and 16 kPa from the instantaneous mean value of 121 kPa during rapid start-up and shutdown, respectively, which are about 1.5 times larger than that of the slow start-up and shutdown. Moreover, the maximum pressure fluctuations are given at the blade trailing edge.
文摘Generally, lightning damage has mainly been to home appliances and telephones, towers and power transmission and generation equipment mal functions and damage due to strikes on power lines. With the adoption of wind power generation equipment, however, lightning damage is also increasing in this area. Through his dimensional characteristics, the wind power system is more exposed in the nature compared to all others systems. Lightning damage is the single largest cause of unplanned downtime in wind turbines, and that downtime is responsible for the loss of countless megawatts of power generation. The wind turbines are important structures, since they can easily attract the wrath of storms hits heights close, they can also capture the most distant. The rotation of the blades may also trigger lightning and result in considerable increase in the number of strikes to a wind turbine unit. Since wind turbines are tall structures, the lightning currents that are injected by return strokes into the turbines will be affected by reflections at the top, at the bottom, and at the junction of the blades with the static base of the turbine. We present our contribution in this paper to study lightning strokes and their effects on the wind turbines with the aim to enrich the work and to suggest more effective means of protection against lightning.
文摘After several instances of sub-synchronous oscillation(SSO)events occurred at wind farms(WFs)with Type-4 wind turbine generators(Type-4 WTGs),the phenomenon has attracted wide attention.The emerging SSO events observed in Type-4 WTG-based WFs are more complex than those previously observed in thermal power plants or Type-3 WTG-based WFs.The SSO(for example,occurred in Hami Type-4 WTG-based WF,China),could be triggered without the involvement of series compensation in the transmission system.Firstly,this paper discusses and summarizes the previous definitions and classifications,and an improved SSO classification is proposed by supplementing the conventional IEEE classification in the view of Type-4 WTG-related SSO.Secondly,an overview of identification methods for SSO sources and the applicable scope of these methods is evaluated.Then,mitigation and protection measures available for addressing the Type-4 WTG-related SSO are comprehensively reviewed.In addition,lessons learned from real-world SSO events,stakeholders’perspectives,as well as challenges and potential further study of the Type-4 WTGrelated SSO are discussed.This review aims to enhance the understanding of the SSO associated with Type-4 WTGs and contribute to the development of effective solutions to mitigate the phenomenon in power systems.
文摘Future power systems face several challenges.One of them is the use of high power converters that decouple new energy sources from the AC power grid.This situation decreases the total system inertia affecting its ability to overcome system frequency disturbances.The wind power industry has created several controllers to enable inertial response on wind turbines generators:artificial,emulated,simulated,or synthetic inertial.This paper deals with the issues related to the emulated inertia of wind turbines based on full-converters and their effect on the under-frequency protection schemes during the recovery period after system frequency disturbances happen.The main contribution of this paper is to demonstrate the recovery period of under-frequency transients in future power systems which integrate wind turbines with emulated inertia capability does not completely avoid the worse scenarios in terms of under-frequency load shedding.The extra power delivered from a wind turbine during frequency disturbances can substantially reduce the rate of frequency change.Thus it provides time for the active governors to respond.
文摘Large integration of doubly-fed induction generator(DFIG)based wind turbines(WTs)into power networks can have significant consequences for power system operation and the quality of the energy supplied due to their excessive sensitivity towards grid disturbances.Under voltage dips,the resulting overcurrent and overvoltage in the rotor circuit and the DC link of a DFIG,could lead to the activation of the protection system and WT disconnection.This potentially results in sudden loss of several tens/hundreds of MWs of energy,and consequently intensifying the severity of the fault.This paper aims to combine the use of a crowbar protection circuit and a robust backstepping control strategy that takes into consideration of the dynamics of the magnetic flux,to improve DFIG’s Low-Voltage Ride Through capability and fulfill the latest grid code requirements.While the power electronic interfaces are protected,the WTs also provide large reactive power during the fault to assist system voltage recovery.Simulation results using Matlab/Simulink demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy in terms of dynamic response and robustness against parametric variations.
基金supported by Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
文摘Integration of distributed generation(DG)can change the fault current level and direction in the distribution system,which affects the related protection system.In order to limit the negative impact of DG integration and upgrade the protection system performance,an intelligent coordinated protection and control strategy is proposed.A cost based optimization method is adopted to minimize the operation costs of possible solutions.Its aim is to define the optimal relay settings for the present operation condition,and the most suitable control mode of converter based wind turbine DG.Case studies on a hardware in the loop real time simulation platform demonstrate the proposed protection strategy.
基金supported by China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (Grant No.:BX20220373)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No.:YWF-23-Q-1067)Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by BAST (Grant No.:BYESS2023081).
文摘Model-based control shows promising potential for engine performance improve-ment and future aero-propulsion requirements.In this paper,an auto-updating thrust variation mitigation(AuTVM)control approach using on-board model strategies is proposed for gas tur-bine aero-engines under in-service degradation effects,which aims at active thrust regulation and acceleration protection in a simultaneous way.The AuTVM control is integrated with an on-line block,based on a reliable on-board engine model,and an off-line part for the periodical update of control parameters via post-flight engine monitoring data.The core feature of the AuTVM control is a set of auto-updating loops within the on-line part,including thrust regu-lation loop,surge margin loop,turbine entry temperature loop,and the steady loop,whose con-trol parameters are periodically adjusted with increasingflight cycles.Meanwhile,an industrial sensor-based baseline controller and two tailored model-based controllers,i.e.,a thrust variation mitigation(TVM)controller withfixed gains and a self-enhancing active transient protection(SeATP)controller with pro-active transient protection and passive thrust control,are also developed as comparison bases.Numerical simulations for idle to full-power acceleration tests are carried on a validated aero-thermal turbofan engine model using publicly available degra-dation data.Simulation results demonstrate that both new engines and severely degraded en-gines regulated by the AuTVM controller show significant thrust response enhancement,compared to the baseline controller.Moreover,thrust variation at the maximum steady state of degraded engines,which exists within the SeATP controller and the baseline controller,is suppressed by the proposed AuTVM controller.Robustness analysis against degradation uncer-tainties and sensor accuracy confirms that the AuTVM controller owns a closer maximum steady-state thrust distribution to the desired value than those of the SeATP and the baseline controller while utilizing transient margins of controlled engines more effectively.Hence,the control performance of the AuTVM controller for in-service engines is guaranteed.
