SIMULATION OF WIND FARM OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • We develop a discrete event-based simulation framework that mimics the operations of a commercial size wind farm. Each turbine is treated as separate module, so that the simulation can be easily scaled up to more than one hundred turbines for a farm. Each turbine module includes a structural element sub-module, degradation sub-module, power generation sub-module, sensing and maintenance scheduling sub-module. The simulator is specially designed to handle a large number of unorganized random events (turbine failures, waiting for parts, weather disruptions) and reflect in the simulators outputs the variation from parameters and operations. We report on implementation results and provide insights into wind farm operations under different maintenance strategies.

name of conference

  • Volume 8: Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles; Wind Energy; Honors and Awards

published proceedings

  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME TURBO EXPO: TURBINE TECHNICAL CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION, 2013, VOL 8

author list (cited authors)

  • Perez, E., Ntaimo, L., & Ding, Y. u.

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • Perez, Eduardo||Ntaimo, Lewis||Ding, Yu

publication date

  • January 2013