Integrated Optimal Design of a Passive Wind Turbine System: An Experimental Validation

Duc-Hoan Tran (1) , Bruno Sareni (2) , Xavier Roboam (2) , Christophe Espanet (3)

1 LAPLACE - LAboratoire PLasma et Conversion d'Energie
2 LAPLACE-GENESYS - Groupe ENergie Electrique et SYStémique
3 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)

This work presents design and experimentation of a full passive wind turbine system without active electronic part(power and control). The efficiency of such device can be obtained only if the system design parameters are mutually adapted through an Integrated Optimal Design (IOD) method. This approach based on multiobjective optimization, aims at concurrently optimizing the wind power extraction and the global system losses for a given wind speed profile while reducing the weight of the wind turbine generator. It allows us to obtain the main characteristics (geometric and energetic features) of the optimal Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) for the passive wind turbine. Finally, experiments on the PMSG prototype built from this work show a good agreement with theoretical predictions. This validates the design approach and confirms the effectiveness of such passive device.

Mots clés: Genetic Algorithms; Integrated Optimal Design; Multiobjective Optimization; Passive Wind Turbine

Domaines: Energie électrique

Duc-Hoan Tran, Bruno Sareni, Xavier Roboam, Christophe Espanet. Integrated Optimal Design of a Passive Wind Turbine System: An Experimental Validation. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy , 2010, vol. 1, pp.48-56. ⟨10.1109/TSTE.2010.2046685⟩. ⟨hal-00761920⟩