Wind Energy Systems: Control Engineering Design - Hardcover

Garcia-Sanz, Mario; Houpis, Constantine H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1439821798 ISBN 13: 9781439821794

Publisher: CRC Press, 2012

Synopsis

Presenting the latest developments in the field, Wind Energy Systems: Control Engineering Design offers a novel take on advanced control engineering design techniques for wind turbine applications. The book introduces concurrent quantitative engineering techniques for the design of highly efficient and reliable controllers, which can be used to solve the most critical problems of multi-megawatt wind energy systems.

This book is based on the authors’ experience during the last two decades designing commercial multi-megawatt wind turbines and control systems for industry leaders, including NASA and the European Space Agency. This work is their response to the urgent need for a truly reliable concurrent engineering methodology for the design of advanced control systems. Outlining a roadmap for such a coordinated architecture, the authors consider the links between all aspects of a multi-megawatt wind energy project, in which the wind turbine and the control system must be cooperatively designed to achieve an optimized, reliable, and successful system.

Look inside for information about the QFT Control Toolbox for Matlab, the software developed by the author to facilitate the QFT robust control design (see also the link at codypower.com).

The textbook’s big-picture insights can help students and practicing engineers control and optimize a wind energy system, in which large, flexible, aerodynamic structures are connected to a demanding variable electrical grid and work automatically under very turbulent and unpredictable environmental conditions. The book covers topics including robust QFT control, aerodynamics, mechanical and electrical dynamic modeling, economics, reliability, and efficiency. It also addresses standards, certification, implementation, grid integration, and power quality, as well as environmental and maintenance issues.

To reinforce understanding, the authors present real examples of experimentation with commercial multi-megawatt direct-drive wind turbines, as well as on-shore, offshore, floating, and airborne wind turbine applications. They also offer a unique in-depth exploration of the quantitative feedback theory (QFT)―a proven, successful robust control technique for real-world applications―as well as advanced switching control techniques that help engineers exceed classical linear limitations.

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About the Author

Prof. Mario Garcia-Sanz is one of the pioneers in the QFT robust control arena. Over the last 30 years, he has developed new QFT control theory and has designed many commercial control solutions for industry and space agencies. With over 20 industrial patents and 200 research papers, he has been the Principal Investigator of over 50 funded research projects for industry, and has worked as an international expert on wind turbine design and control in patent litigation at the British Court. As a Full Professor at the Public University of Navarra and Senior Advisor for European wind energy companies he played a central role in the design and field experimentation of multi-megawatt wind turbines for industry, including the advice of many PhD students and engineers in the field. Dr. Garcia-Sanz is currently a Professor and Founding Director of the Control and Energy Systems Center, and the inaugural Maltz Endowed Chair in Energy Innovation at Case Western Reserve University (cesc.case.edu). He also has been NATO/RTO Lecture Series Director, Visiting Professor at UMIST (UK); at Oxford University (UK); at NASA-JPL (California); and at the European Space Agency ESA-ESTEC (The Netherlands). He founded CoDyPower LLC, a consulting firmspecialized on control systems, energy innovation and optimum planning of electrical distribution networks (codypower.com). Professor Garcia-Sanz's CRC-Press three books "Quantitative Feedback Theory: Theory and Applications" (2006),"Wind Energy Systems: Control Engineering Design" (2012), and "Robust Control Engineering: Practical QFT Solutions" (2017) are among the best-selling books in QFT and Wind turbine control. His QFT Control Toolbox for Matlab is considered as the top tool for designing QFT control systems. Dr. Garcia-Sanz is Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control,and received the IEE Heaviside Prize (UK), the BBVA research award (Spain) and the CWRU Diekhoff Teaching Award (USA).

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439821798
• ISBN 13: 9781439821794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 632