Comparison of Individual Blade Control and Individual Pitch Control for Wind Turbine Load Reduction
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The size of wind turbines has been growing fast in recent years with the largest now exceeding 7MW. Furthermore, this trend is expected to continue for the offshore sector. However, this increase in size is accompanied by an increase in the dynamic loading on the structure, in particular, unbalanced loads on the blade and hub. Apart from making wind turbine components more load tolerant, e.g. through advances in materials, this issue could be addressed by active reduction of the loads. The latter approach has great potential to enable the optimisation of turbine design and reduce the cost of energy (CoE).
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