Description du projet
Une technologie de changeur de prises en charge rapide pour les éoliennes
Le coût de l’électricité produite à partir du vent continue de diminuer, mais parallèlement, les contraintes liées au réseau deviennent plus sévères. Il est donc urgent de trouver des solutions innovantes qui aideront le secteur à se conformer aux politiques environnementales mondiales. Le projet FASTAP, financé par l’UE, développera une application pour les éoliennes qui améliorera les transformateurs standard des aérogénérateurs en offrant des capacités de changement très rapide de prises en charge. Cette solution exploite des thyristors spécifiquement connectés aux bobinages des transformateurs à prises multiples. Cette technologie permettra d’accroître les capacités électriques des aérogénérateurs dans des conditions de réseau de capacité insuffisante et d’augmenter leur potentiel de tenue aux creux de tension, pour les basses et hautes tensions.
Objectif
The energy market in general, and the wind energy market in particular, are experiencing constant decrease of prices, together with harsher and harsher grid conditions. In order to comply with worldwide environmental policies, revolutionary solutions, such as FASTAP, need to reach the market as soon as possible.
The FASTAP project aims at scaling from TRL6 to TRL8 the wind turbine application of a very fast on-load tap changer transformer technology. This solution uses thyristors specially connected to multi-tap transformer windings to provide On-Load Tap Changer capability to a standard wind turbine (WTG) transformer. This technology allows to choose the optimum voltage at which the WTG operates in, not only in steady-state conditions but also for dynamic and transient events.
This technology will increase WTGs' electric capabilities in weak grid conditions, enlarge WTGs' Low and High Voltage Ride Through capabilities and allow reducing electrical components oversizing. As an overall, the FASTAP will be able to reduce wind's Leverage Cost of Energy up to 5.5% and will be able to connect to worldwide grids an additional 71.64GW wind capacity.
The consortium partners have been working together for the last three years to bring the technology up to TRL6. They cover the whole value chain, which guarantees that the product will reach the market 33 months after the project kicks-off:
- INF, the market leader in bipolar high-performance semiconductors, brings the technical know-how and commercial capacity for thyristors-based semiconductors.
-SGB, number one medium-sized manufacturer of transformers in Europe, brings the technical know-how and commercial capacity for transformers.
-SG, WTG market leader, will be the integrator and validator of the FASTAP product into <5MW and >5MW platforms.
-MU, the most industrially-oriented University in Spain, was the first originator of the FASTAP concept and will bring FASTAP transformer for Wind Turbines.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
IA - Innovation actionCoordinateur
7330 Brande
Danemark