Over the last decade we have been involved in the development of lidar use cases in wind energy. Though the leading role in the IEA Wind Task 32 and our research activities at University of Stuttgart we gained insights in numerous measurement campaigns, have conducted several test campaigns and field-testings campaigns, and have developed methodologies […]
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Taking lidar control in the design process of tower, blades, or other components into account enlarges the potential of lidar for wind turbines. With integrated design projects the team of sowento can showcase and support the clients to leverage the full potential of the lidar system for the wind turbine.
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sowento supports its clients in the certification process of lidar-assisted control. Being in continuous interaction with certification bodies, the team of sowento knows both sides, the engineering and the certification and bridge the gap between them. Furthermore, sowento’s team contributes to the IEA Wind Task 32 on lidar-assisted control and the mitigation of barriers in
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sowento will accompany the client in the field testing phase of lidar assisted control. This ensures the the achievement and the validity of the testing objectives and avoids a failure during the testing. Engineers of sowento support the following three parts of field testing of lidar-assisted control: Planning: With sowento’s long term experiences in test
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The sowento engineers will demonstrate the benefits of lidar-assisted control on the OEM’s wind turbine and give advise in possible improvements of the total control strategy. The lidar system is realistically simulated (with availability, blade blockage, etc.) and different controllers can be assessed and compared to each other. At the end of the project, the
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In an analysis project sowento’s team will perform a detailed analysis and simulation study to answer the main questions in introducing lidar-assisted control for a wind turbine. Depending on the clients needs sowento controllers will be tailored to the specific wind turbine model. Furthermore, optimal combination between lidar control and feedback control will be assessed
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The novel floating wind technology is progressing continuously along the learning curve. With our efficient reduced-order system simulation toolbox, we are able to represent efficiently the overall system dynamics for all types of substructures. We perform coupled modal analysis and a detailed structural assessment with ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS AQWA for diffraction analyses. The ability
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We offer our clients advanced floating wind turbine controllers, tested in realistic simulation environments together with a clear roadmap to implement the solution in full-scale. A core competence is our control-oriented aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulation model SLOW. The model is a key asset, representing all necessary effects, which are relevant for the controller. By designing the controller with
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We make our experience from various engineering projects, as well as high-level European research projects like H2020-LIFES50+ your benefit. We use tailored multi-fidelity tools, adapted to the design stage and engineering question at hand. We select design load cases according to the component to be designed in the same way as we select the software
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We make our experience from various engineering projects, as well as high-level European research projects like H2020-LIFES50+ your benefit. Our knowledge of critical loading conditions, controller tuning and modeling approaches helps to identify possible shortcomings in your projects. We conduct a fully independent review of structural design and coupled analysis according to the relevant standards.
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