Title: Artificial intelligence-based blade element momentum method for wind turbine systems

Authors: Ganesh P. Prajapat; Sanjay Kumar Bansal; Pratyasa Bhui; D.K. Yadav

Addresses: Electrical Engineering Department, Engineering College, Bikaner – 334001 Rajasthan, India ' Bikaner Technical University, Bikaner-334001 Rajasthan, India ' Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad – 580011 Karnataka, India ' Rajasthan Technical University, Kota – 324010 Rajasthan, India

Abstract: The output aerodynamic power from a wind turbine is estimated through a classical c₁ - c₆ formulae in most of the research works especially when it is considered for the generation of electrical power. This approach sometimes may not be useful where the actual aerodynamic power with better accuracy is required. This paper investigates the blade element momentum (BEM) method in-depth with the impact of wind speed, turbine speed and air-foil geometry. An artificial intelligence model (AIM) of BEM for its use in simulation has also been proposed in this paper. AIM helps to reduce the computational time significantly since the BEM when run in whole takes a lot of time during simulation. A neural network has been made and trained with the data obtained from the BEM method. Further, the turbine power resulted from the BEM approach through AIM has been used for the generation of the electrical power with its maximum power tracking. The simulation has been performed on NREL's 5-MW test wind turbine.

Keywords: wind power generation; BEM method; neural network; drag and lift forces; MPPT; aerodynamic power.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2021.121326

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, 2021 Vol.20 No.4, pp.325 - 339

Accepted: 07 Dec 2021
Published online: 04 Mar 2022 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article