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Airborne wind energy

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Optimum dispatch of a multi-storage and multi-energy hub with demand response and restricted grid interactions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera

Integrated energy systems such as multi energy hubs which combines different energy conversion technologies and storage is recently getting popular. These systems possess the potential to integrate distributed renewable energy sources with a minimum impact ...

2017

A Nonlinear Adaptive Controller for Airborne Wind Energy Systems

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Andrea Alessandretti, Sanket Sanjay Diwale

A nonlinear adaptive path following controller for a kite based airborne wind energy system is presented. For a given desired geometric path, we provide necessary conditions for closed-loop convergence of the kite to a tube centered around the desired path ...

2016

A Directional Modifier-Adaptation Algorithm for Real-Time Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

The steady advances of computational methods make model-based optimization an increasingly attractive method for process improvement. Unfortunately, the available models are often inaccurate. The traditional remedy is to update the model parameters, but th ...

Elsevier2016

Sensitivity of the dispatch strategy in designing grid integrated hybrid energy systems

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik

Integrating renewable energy technologies based on solar PV (SPV) and wind energy in the energy system is challenging due to time dependence of the energy potential for these energy sources. Grid integrated hybrid energy systems combining SPV panels, wind ...

Ieee2016

Advanced methods for the evaluation of lightning incidence over large areas, wind turbine parks and tall towers

Aleksandr Smorgonskii

Lightning presents a significant danger to electrical and electronic equipment, buildings and monuments, people and animals. Although our knowledge about lightning has significantly improved over last century, the development of new composite materials and ...

EPFL2016

Hub vortex instability within wind turbine wakes: Effects of wind turbulence, loading conditions, and blade aerodynamics

François Gallaire, Giacomo Valerio Iungo, Francesco Viola

The near wake of wind turbines is characterized by the presence of the hub vortex, which is a coherent vorticity structure generated from the interaction between the root vortices and the boundary layer evolving over the turbine nacelle. Bymoving downstrea ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Optimization of an Airborne Wind Energy System using Constrained Gaussian Processes with Transient Measurements

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Sanket Sanjay Diwale

Airborne wind energy systems are built to exploit the stronger and more consistent wind available at high altitudes that conventional wind turbines cannot reach. This however requires a reliable controller design that can keep the airborne system flying fo ...

2015