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COMPARISON OF EXTREME LOAD EXTRAPOLATIONS USING MEASURED AND CALCULATED LOADS. Johan Peeringa and Erik Korterink EWEC 2009, 18 March 2009, Marseille. Content. We@Sea project on extreme load extrapolation ECN Wind turbine Test site Wieringermeer (EWTW) Extreme load statistics
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COMPARISON OF EXTREME LOAD EXTRAPOLATIONS USING MEASURED AND CALCULATED LOADS Johan Peeringa and Erik Korterink EWEC 2009, 18 March 2009, Marseille
Content • We@Sea project on extreme load extrapolation • ECN Wind turbine Test site Wieringermeer (EWTW) • Extreme load statistics • Results of measured free stream extreme loads • Calculation of loads in wake conditions • Comparison of measured and calculated extreme loads • Conclusions
Project • Aim is validation of extreme value models by comparing extreme loads based on measurements and calculations.
Research turbines numbered from 5 (most Westerly) to 9 (most Easterly) Wind farm line: 95-275 degrees MM3 at 3.5 D and 315 degrees from turbine 5 MM3 at 2.5D and 31 degrees from turbine 6 2000 Meteo mast 3 1000 0 - 2000 - 1000 0 1000 2000 Meteo mast 1 Meteo mast 2 - 1000 Research turb NM52 Meteo mast Proto types Single WEC - 2000 1 km
Statistical model The long-term response distribution is the integration of the short-term response distribution, conditional on the wind speed (and turbulence), over all wind speeds.
Method and distributions • L-moment http://www.research.ibm.com/people/h/hosking/lmoments.html • Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) • Gumbel • Lognormal • Weibull
Calculation of wake conditions • ECNWakeFarm • SWIFTwake • PHATAS
Conclusions • For free stream measured loads the GEV, lognormal and Weibull distribution show good agreement with the empirical distribution. • For the free stream measured loads 50 measurements are sufficient for the estimation of the distribution parameters. • Calculated extreme flat blade root bending moments are smaller than the measured ones for all conditions at 15.5 m/s. • Calculation methods for wake conditions should be improved.