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Operation State of the Wind Turbine Pitch System Based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation

Anfeng Zhu¹, Qiancheng Zhao^1,*, Lin Gui¹, Tianlong Yang¹, Xuebing Yang²

1 Engineering Research Center of Hunan Province for the Mining and Utilization of Wind Turbines Operation Data, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, 411201, China
2 XEMC Wind Power Co., Ltd., Xiangtan, 411102, China

* Corresponding Author: Qiancheng Zhao. Email:

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Wind Energy Development and Utilization)

Energy Engineering 2023, 120(2), 425-444. https://doi.org/10.32604/ee.2023.023049

Received 07 April 2022; Accepted 19 July 2022; Issue published 29 November 2022

Abstract

To ensure wind turbine (WT) safe operations and improve the utilization rate of wind energy, effective evaluation of the operation state of the pitch system is critical. Therefore, a new method was proposed to evaluate the operation state of the pitch system of WT based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. Firstly, based on SCADA data, the working state of the pitch system under rated power state and power state of WT were analyzed. Secondly, through the analysis of characteristic parameters and physical mechanism of the pitch system, the consistency principle of characteristic parameters, the stability principle of power under rated state, and the stability principle of blade angle underpowered state were obtained. Next, based on the aforementioned principles, the evaluation indexes were established, and the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method was used to establish the operation state evaluation model of the pitch system under rated power state and under power state of the WT. Finally, an example was provided to verify the effectiveness of the method. The evaluation model established in this study can be used as a technical reference for the online monitoring of WT pitch systems to ensure the safe and stable operation of WTs.

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