Instrumentation, Control, and Testing of a Small Wind Turbine Test Rig

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dc.contributor.authorKhorsand Asgari, Iman
dc.contributor.supervisorCrawford, Curran
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-29T20:06:37Z
dc.date.available2015-04-29T20:06:37Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-04-29
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Mechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Applied Science M.A.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractAs a cost-effective test method, a vehicle-based test rig can be utilized in small wind turbine experimental work to facilitate turbine performance tests under a range of controlled wind speeds, as well as to validate turbulent flow models. The instrumentation of a custom trailer-based mobile wind turbine test rig has been modified to provide a platform for full rotor speed control. A control system coupled to an electric vehicle controller with regenerative braking technology was developed in five steps, namely: system modeling in Simulink, system identification, control system design and analysis, control system implementation in LabVIEW, and Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller tuning in real-time. A custom Graphical User Interface (GUI) was also developed. Furthermore, a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis was conducted to assess the potential impact of towing vehicle’s disturbance on the free stream available to the rotor disc. This trailer rig will allow up to a 1kW wind turbine. It can be towed behind a vehicle to conduct steady state tests or it can be parked in an open area to collect unsteady field data. It has been tested in a towed scenario and the Blade Element Momentum (BEM) predictions were compared with the obtained aggregate performance curve.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0548en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0791en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0544en_US
dc.description.proquestemailkhorsand@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6060
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectRenewable Energy Systemsen_US
dc.subjectWind Energyen_US
dc.subjectWind Turbine Testingen_US
dc.titleInstrumentation, Control, and Testing of a Small Wind Turbine Test Rigen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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