RT Journal Article
T1 Evaluation of electromechanical systems dynamically emulating a candidate hydrokinetic turbine
A1 Cavagnaro, Robert J.
A1 Neely, Jason C.
A1 Faÿ, Franois Xavier
A1 Mendia, Joseba Lopez
A1 Rea, Judith A.
AB Implications of conducting hardware-in-the-loop testing of a specific hydrokinetic turbine on controllable motor-generator sets or electromechanical emulation machines (EEMs) are explored. The emulator control dynamic equations are presented, methods for scaling turbine parameters are developed and evaluated, and experimental results are presented from three EEMs programmed to emulate the same vertical-axis fixed-pitch turbine. Although hardware platforms and control implementations varied, results show that each EEM is successful in emulating the turbine model at different power levels, thus demonstrating the general feasibility of the approach. However, performance of motor control under torque command, current command, or speed command differed. In a demonstration of the intended use of an EEM for evaluating a hydrokinetic turbine implementation, a power takeoff controller tracks the maximum power-point of the turbine in response to turbulence. Utilizing realistic inflow conditions and control laws, the emulator dynamic speed response is shown to agree well at low frequencies with numerical simulation but to deviate at high frequencies.
SN 1949-3029
YR 2016
FD 2016-01-01
LA eng
NO Cavagnaro , R J , Neely , J C , Faÿ , F X , Mendia , J L & Rea , J A 2016 , ' Evaluation of electromechanical systems dynamically emulating a candidate hydrokinetic turbine ' , IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy , vol. 7 , no. 1 , 7321812 , pp. 390-399 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2015.2492943
NO Publisher Copyright: © 2015 IEEE.
NO This work was supported in part by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Postdoctoral Research Awards under the EERE Water Power Program administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for the DOE, in part by Sandia National Laboratories, a multiprogram laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000, in part by the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ under REA Grant 607656.
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