Integrated design of a semi-submersible floating vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) with active blade pitch control

Huijs, Fons; Vlasveld, Ebert; Gormand, Maël; Savenije, Feike; Caboni, Marco; LeBlanc, Bruce; Ferreira, Carlos; Lindenburg, Koert; Gueydon, Sébastien; Otto, William; Paillard, Benoît

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1104/1/012022

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“…This leads to many inherent difficulties for designers to properly characterize the loads and performance of these turbines, especially in understanding fatigue. Research interest has increased in the areas of active variable pitch for improving power extraction, controlling the direction of the wake, or minimizing loads 1–5 . In order to provide better insight into these phenomena, a set of flow field measurements through Particle Image Velocimetry were conducted using the PitchVAWT active pitch turbine at Delft University of Technology.…”

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“…This work provides a set of data for multiple pitch configurations with a rotor solidity similar to larger scale turbine designs such as the one presented in the S4VAWT project presented in Huijs et al 1 Detailed velocity fields are given highlighting dynamic stall in both the upwind and downwind portions of the rotation with changing pitch angles. Tower shadow, blade vortex interaction, and in some cases deep stall are shown in the downwind blade pass.…”

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Estimation of blade loads for a variable pitch vertical axis wind turbine from particle image velocimetry

LeBlanc

Ferreira

2021

Wind Energy

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This paper presents the flow fields and aerodynamic loading of a two bladed H‐type vertical axis wind turbine with active variable pitch for load and circulation control. Particle Image Velocimetry is used to capture flow fields at six azimuthal positions of the blades during operation, three upwind and three downwind. Flow phenomena such as dynamic stall and tower shadow are captured in the flow fields. The phase‐averaged velocity fields and their time and spatial derivatives are used to calculate the normal and tangential loading at each position for each pitching configuration using the Noca formulation of the flux equations. The results show the effect of load shifting from the upwind to downwind region of the actuator using pitch and the effects of dynamic stall on the blades. The results also provide an unique database for model validation.

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Estimation of blade loads for a variable pitch vertical axis wind turbine from particle image velocimetry

LeBlanc

Ferreira

2021

Wind Energy

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“…Despite these potential advantages, Darrieus VAWTs are intrinsically limited to lower efficiencies than HAWTs, because of the continuously varying angle of attack (α) and because the blades move in their own wake part of each rotation. A lot of the ongoing research is oriented towards mitigating these inherent limitations [17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

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Design, manufacturing and validation of a vertical-axis wind turbine setup for wind tunnel tests

Vergaerde

Troyer

Molina

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Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

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“…The capacity of the VAWT can reach to 6 Mw of power as well as have total mass of 550 ton, it is compatible with an interactive pitch control system. Also, the VAWT is suitable for floating marine applications due to its low center of gravity, which gives it stability in those applications like boats [41]. Figure 8 shows VAWT installed in sea which it is did not need to yaw mechanism, it is catching the attack wind from any direction.…”

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“…HAWT have more amount of energy production unlike VAWT it's until now use for small scale application, which can reach to 6 Mw of power [41]. HAWT can reach to 20 Mw of power.…”

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Comparison between horizontal and vertical axis wind turbine

Al-Rawajfeh

Gomaa²

2023

IJAPE

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Since ancient times, wind energy has been exploited in various fields, it was at the beginning used to rotate pumps for the purposes of agriculture and irrigation. At the beginning of the 18th century, wind turbines began to produce electricity with modest capacities. In the following years, the capacities of the turbines increased and it became necessary to deal with this increase by reducing losses and inventing new designs for turbines Suitable for working conditions and installation location. The rotor power coefficient in a wind turbine can reach 0.59 which is called the bets limit. The vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) design was invented for working conditions, capacities, and places, in which it may be difficult to install older Horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT). The efficiency of the HAWT is still higher than the VAWT, in addition, the amount of efficiency in the HAWT is greater than the VAWT by 25% but the VAWT has the amount of torque more than the HAWT. The main objective of this research is to compare the VAWT and the HAWT, taking into account several aspects which have been reviewed to try to understand the importance of the two designs.

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Integrated design of a semi-submersible floating vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) with active blade pitch control

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Estimation of blade loads for a variable pitch vertical axis wind turbine from particle image velocimetry

Estimation of blade loads for a variable pitch vertical axis wind turbine from particle image velocimetry

Design, manufacturing and validation of a vertical-axis wind turbine setup for wind tunnel tests

Comparison between horizontal and vertical axis wind turbine

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