Methods for improving the efficiency of a wind power plant and reliable estimation of output control parameters and disturbances

Abstract

A method for controlling a wind power plant based on the use of the optimization model that takes account of the drive vibration loading under different operating modes of the power unit is validated. The transfer functions of the rotor systems dynamic links are proposed, taking account of the influence of wind speed and electrical load, the block diagram of the control system and the transient process graph of the angular velocity regulating of the installation generator rotor. To ensure the reliability of the output control parameters and disturbing influences estimation, the determining method substantiation of the dynamic links correlation coefficients for the wind power plant rotor system is performed. These coefficients are necessary to develop models of the system dynamic behavior used in the modification of the wind power plant automated control in order to reduce the vibrations of all rotor systems elements under different operating modes of the power unit that will improve the reliability of modern wind turbines. The correlation function parameters to determine the correlation dependences for the measured values of wind speed and electrical load are found. Formulas are derived for determining the spectral density of input and output random processes at changing wind speed and electrical load, as well as the mutual spectral density of input and output random processes for dynamic links of rotor systems (rotary blades, rotor, generator, gearbox) based on the block diagram of the entire process in order to determine the correlation degree of transfer functions. The analysis of the input and output signals of the transfer functions with respect to their coherence is carried out from a correlation coefficients calculation of the rotor systems dynamic links. This makes it possible to describe the transfer function within the framework of the vibration fields analysis for the unit as a whole. Keywords wind power plant, control, rotor system, vibration, correlation coefficient