PROJECT TITLE :

Wind Farm Layout Optimization and Its Application to Power System Reliability Analysis

ABSTRACT:

Energy production of a wind farm is greatly tormented by the wake-effect. In wind farm coming up with, it is essential to optimize the layout of wind turbine generators (WTGs) to alleviate the impact of wake-result. This paper presents a brand new wind farm layout optimization model with an objective operate to maximizing equivalent power of the wind farm. The proposed model incorporates the discrete joint chance distribution and characteristics of the wind, wind energy model, and the wake-impact. A particle swarm optimization algorithm is employed to unravel the optimization drawback. Within the optimization method, geometric analysis is conducted to see the upstream WTGs and to calculate the horizontal and deviating distances among WTGs along the wind direction. An efficient look-up table is constructed to directly determine the upstream/downstream WTGs. Then the optimal layout of a wind farm will be obtained. The proposed technique is applied to the wind farm layout optimization and therefore the changed Roy Billinton Check System and IEEE Reliability Check System for reliability analysis of a generating system containing a wind farm. Simulation results demonstrate the validity and suppleness of the proposed technique within the layout optimization of WTGs in a wind farm.