Wind Turbine Operation Curves Modelling Techniques

Wind turbines are machines operating in non-stationary conditions and the power of a wind turbine depends non-trivially on environmental conditions and working parameters. For these reasons, wind turbine power monitoring is a complex task which is typically addressed through data-driven methods for constructing a normal behavior model. On these grounds, this study is devoted the analysis of meaningful operation curves, which are rotor speed-power, generator speed-power and blade pitch-power. A key point is that these curves are analyzed in the appropriate operation region of the wind turbines: the rotor and generator curves are considered for moderate wind speed, when the blade pitch is fixed and the rotational speed varies (Region 2); the blade pitch curve is considered for higher wind speed, when the rotational speed is rated (Region 2 12). The selected curves are studied through a multivariate Support Vector Regression with Gaussian Kernel on the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) data of two wind farms sited in Italy, featuring in total 15 2 MW wind turbines. An innovative aspect of the selected models is that minimum, maximum and standard deviation of the independent variables of interest are fed as input to the models, in addition to the typically employed average values: using the additional covariates proposed in this work, the error metrics decrease of order of one third, with respect to what would be obtained by employing as regressors only the average values of the independent variables. In general it results that, for all the considered curves, the prediction of the power is characterized by error metrics which are competitive with the state of the art in the literature for multivariate wind turbine power curve analysis: in particular, for one test case, a mean absolute percentage error of order of 2.5% is achieved. Furthermore, the approach presented in this study provides a superior capability of interpreting wind turbine performance in terms of the behavior of the main sub-components and eliminates as much as possible the dependence on nacelle anemometer data, whose use is critical because of issues related to the sites complexity.

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