Offshore wind farm layout

optimization using mathematical

programming techniques
Renewable Energy
Journal
Environmental
Hydraulics Institute
IH-Cantabria,
Santander, Spain.
Beatriz Prez, Roberto
Mnguez*, Ral
Guanche

Name: Andre Felipe Torres Senra

Professor: Richard Mark French

Nature of The Problem

Offshore wind power is a renewable energy of
growing relevance in current electric energy
systems;
Presenting
favorable
wind
conditions
in
comparison with the sites on land;

Nature of The Problem

However, the higher energy yield has to
compensate the increment in installation and
maintenance costs, thus the importance of
optimizing resources.

Design Variables
The exact location coordinates of each turbine
(xi,yi);
i = 1;...;NT. These variables are
integrated into the variable decision vector xRNtx2
as follows:

Constraints
The set of constraints determine which decisions
are admissible, i.e. define the feasible region of
the problem variables.
Two types of constraint:
Minimum distance: According to the wake
model selected the minimum distance
between turbines within the wind farm is
limited to four rotor diameters (dmin = 4D).

Constraints
Wind farm area limits:
Turbines must be allocated to a predefined area
given as data. The area was defined using 4 nodes
(quadrilateral). Given these four coordinates (x iL, yiL)
; i = 1; 2; 3; 4 as data, the constraint that ensures
turbines remain inside this quadrilateral region is as
follows:

Objective Function
Annual Energy Production (AEP);
Equation which takes into consideration the
wake effects and allows quantifying the
benefits in terms of profit from the location
strategy.

Steps to Solve Problem

Step 1: Cross sectional
area intersection

Step 2: Deficit
velocity evaluation:

Total speed deficit for

turbine i is computed
as follows:

Steps to Solve Problem

Steps to Solve Problem

i) The starting points used to
look for convex subregions, ii)
the local maxima and iii) the
global maximum. Note that
although
there
is
no
guarantee that x* is the true
global solution, the chances of
finding it increase as M
increases.
However,
this
methodology, unlike others,
guarantees the optimality
conditions of the solution.
Furthermore, this gradientbased process could be used
to refine solutions obtained
from other heuristic methods.

Conclusion
In order to verify the effectiveness a test was
performed using the German offshore wind farm
Alpha Ventus, yielding an increment of the
expected annual power production of 3.758%
compared to the actual configuration.