Wind Farm Layout Optimization with Emphasis on the Wake Effect
Subject Areas : electrical and computer engineeringA. Farajipoor 1 * , F. Faghihi 2 , R. Sharifi 3
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Keywords: Wind farm wind turbine layout design optimization algorithms renewable energy,
Abstract :
Construction of wind farms rise for wind energy capture as a renewable energy around the world. The purpose of wind farm layout optimization, absorb maximum energy from wind farms. In this paper, a new hybrid algorithm is presented to maximize the expected energy output. Considerations of algorithm wake loss, which is based on wind turbine location and wind direction. The proposed model is illustrated with a scenario of the wind speed and its direction distribution of windy sites and is compared with ant colony algorithm and evolutionary strategy algorithm in six steps layout. The results show that the combination of ant colony algorithm and genetic algorithm performs better than existing strategies based on maximum values of the expected energy output and wake loss.
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