Description du projet
Un système de contrôle innovant améliore l’efficacité des parcs éoliens
Les parcs d’éoliennes représentent une solution prometteuse en matière d’énergie renouvelable et s’inscrivent dans les objectifs du pacte vert pour l’Europe. Toutefois, les progrès de cette technologie sont entravés par la nécessité d’améliorer les batteries et l’efficacité des turbines. Le projet ICONIC, financé par l’UE, vise à mettre au point un système de contrôle des parcs éoliens révolutionnaire et ultramoderne, assorti d’outils physiques et numériques qui ouvriront la voie à des découvertes significatives. Ce dispositif devrait augmenter la production d’électricité jusqu’à 20 % et la production annuelle d’énergie jusqu’à 5 %. En outre, il devrait permettre de réduire les coûts énergétiques nivelés de 6 % grâce à l’amélioration de l’efficacité et à la réduction des dépenses. Le système intégrera l’intelligence artificielle, les jumeaux numériques et les technologies basées sur les données.
Objectif
ICONIC aims to develop innovative physical and digital tools to achieve fundamental breakthroughs for the integrated control of wind farms, considering the whole physical system at farm, turbine, and component levels, in particular the complex aerodynamic interactions among turbines. ICONIC aims to increase farm-wide power production by 15-20% under optimal wind speeds and directions for typical wind farms suffering from wake effects, with a 3%-5% increase in annual energy production (AEP) considering all working conditions over the long term. It targets an LCOE reduction of at least 6% compared with the state-of-the-art control tools deployed in the current wind industry by improving farm-wide AEP and reducing operation & maintenance costs via leveraging the latest AI and digital technologies. Extensive validations for the integrated wind farm control solutions will be conducted via high-fidelity simulation models, experiments at a national-level wind tunnel, historical operational data at BP’s and C-Power’s wind farms, a unique collection of test rigs for critical turbine components at respective companies, and real-world wind farm field tests at C-Power. ICONIC’s integrated wind farm control system will contain (1) novel AI-based wind farm control system to unlock wind farms’ full potential; (2) novel data-enhanced wind turbine controllers to fulfil farm-level commands while balancing power generation and load mitigation; (3) an integration with digital twins (DTs) as extra support to improve control and reduce costs, which contains a first-ever farm-level DT for wind farm flow systems replicating detailed physical flow fields and an innovative turbine-level DT with critical component models for loading and lifetime estimations; (4) extensions of the solutions to future 20MW turbines. ICONIC will establish new knowledge and industrial leadership in key digital, enabling and emerging technologies, and deliver next-generation tools for wind farm operation.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
9000 Gent
Belgique