Surrogate Models for Wind Turbine Electrical Power and Fatigue Loads in Wind Farm

Georgios Gasparis, Wai Hou Lio, Fanzhong Meng*

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    Abstract

    Fatigue damage of turbine components is typically computed by running a rain-flow counting algorithm on the load signals of the components. This process is not linear and time consuming, thus, it is non-trivial for an application of wind farm control design and optimisation. To compensate this limitation, this paper will develop and compare different types of surrogate models that can predict the short term damage equivalent loads and electrical power of wind turbines, with respect to various wind conditions and down regulation set-points, in a wind farm. More specifically, Linear Regression, Artificial Neural Network and Gaussian Process Regression are the types of the developed surrogate models in this work. The results showed that Gaussian Process Regression outperforms the other types of surrogate models and can effectively estimate the aforementioned target variables.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number6360
    JournalEnergies
    Volume13
    Issue number23
    Number of pages15
    ISSN1996-1073
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Keywords

    • Surrogate model
    • Fatigue load
    • Wind turbine
    • Wind farm

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