Projects
Inverse identification of wind loads on structures. KU Leuven
Virtual Torque Sensing: A Model-based Approach for Indirect Measurement of Dynamic Operational Loads on Mechatronic Powertrains KU Leuven
Modern mechatronic powertrains are characterized by an ever increasing power density and high-dynamic operation. In addition, high demands are put on the energy efficiency and the behaviour in terms of noise and vibrations. This is true for powertrains in industrial machines, wind turbines and vehicles.
The increasingly strict requirements, together with a constant pressure on shortening development times, have led to a growing use of ...
Dynamic response of a floating offshore wind turbine structure to extreme wave loading in nonlinear, directional seas KU Leuven
Notwithstanding the present-day oil prices, the large amounts of greenhouse gases set free by burning fossil fuels, have already a tremendous impact on the weather extremes. As further climate change endangers our societies, the transition to renewables must be fast. Due to its high resource availability and high technology maturity, offshore wind remains the most promising to facilitate this transition. As offshore wind turbines are ...
Dynamic Grid Support by Wind Farms: Potential of Rotating Kinetic Energy KU Leuven
cSBO project SEAFD : Realistic CFD wind load computations for offshore wind turbines Vrije Universiteit Brussel
changes in offshore wind farms, potentially leading to failures of bearings in wind turbines
Advanced integrated supervisory and wind turbine control for optimal operation of large Wind Power Plants. KU Leuven
Cost of energy (COE) is the most important single factor in deployment of renewables in the energy system. Reduction of COE is, among other things, directly related to operational control of Wind Power Plants (WPP) as a whole and the individual wind turbines (WT) within them. In the Total Control project the COE reduction will be pursued by developing and validating advanced integrated WPP/WT control schemes, where all essential interactions ...
Wind load identification on guyed masts using inverse model-based techniques KU Leuven
Guyed mast telecommunication towers are highly complex structures that require special attention in their design under wind loads (both quasi-static and dynamic components). These structures are particularly sensible sensitive to wind loads due to their high exposure, absence of redundant elements that provide additional stiffness to the system, low structural damping, large flexibility and lightweight character, low natural frequencies, ...
Virtual load sensing for wind turbine gearboxes KU Leuven
This PhD will explore the merits of virtual sensing for load estimation in wind turbine drivetrains. The PhD consists of three main parts: Modelling, Virtual Sensing and Validation.
In the modelling part, wind turbine drivetrain models of increasing levels of complexity will be generated. The complexity is varied in two directions. On one hand the accuracy of modelling of different subsystems is increased. On the other hand the scope ...
Smart, Aware, Integrated Wind Farm Control Interacting with Digital Twins (ICONIC) KU Leuven
ICONIC aims to develop innovative physical and digital tools to achieve fundamental breakthroughs for the integrated control of wind farms, considering the whole physical system at farm, turbine, and component levels, in particular the complex aerodynamic interactions among turbines. ICONIC aims to increase farm-wide power production by 15-20% under optimal wind speeds and directions for typical wind farms suffering from wake effects, with a ...