Abstract
Offshore wind energy has attracted worldwide attention and investments in the last decade due to the stability and abundance of wind resources. As one of the main components of this, internal array cables have a great impact on the levelised cost of energy of offshore wind farms, and thus their connection layout is a matter of concern. In this paper, a classical mathematical problem-the traveling salesman problem, which belongs to the field of graph theory-is applied to solve the offshore wind farm cable connection layout optimization problem. Both the capital investment on cables, cable laying, and the cost of power losses associated with array cables are considered in the proposed model. A modified bat algorithm is presented to resolve the problem. Furthermore, a cable crossing detection method is also adopted to avoid obtaining crossed cable connection layouts. The effectiveness was verified through a case study.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 265 |
| Journal | Applied Sciences |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).Keywords
- Offshore wind farm
- Cable connection layout
- Power losses
- Traveling salesman problem
- Bat algorithm