TY - GEN
T1 - A graph-theoretic approach for addressing trenching constraints in wind farm collector system design
AU - Dutta, Sudipta
AU - Overbye, Thomas
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper addresses the topic of automatically computing cable layout designs of large scale wind farms. A network of cables in a wind farm's electrical collector system collects power generated by turbines and brings to the wind farm substation. Frequently, sections of the land area of a large wind farm are restricted for excavating and burying these cables, i.e. trenching. Such restrictions might arise from the landowners, presence of water bodies etc. It is important to take into consideration these real-life constraints in the process of automating designs of optimal wind farm electrical collector systems. This paper presents a graph-theory based methodology for addressing these trenching constraints in optimal collector system designs. The developed methodology has been tested on a real-life large wind farm.
AB - This paper addresses the topic of automatically computing cable layout designs of large scale wind farms. A network of cables in a wind farm's electrical collector system collects power generated by turbines and brings to the wind farm substation. Frequently, sections of the land area of a large wind farm are restricted for excavating and burying these cables, i.e. trenching. Such restrictions might arise from the landowners, presence of water bodies etc. It is important to take into consideration these real-life constraints in the process of automating designs of optimal wind farm electrical collector systems. This paper presents a graph-theory based methodology for addressing these trenching constraints in optimal collector system designs. The developed methodology has been tested on a real-life large wind farm.
KW - convex hull
KW - design automation
KW - spanning trees
KW - trenching constraints
KW - wind farm collector system
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U2 - 10.1109/PECI.2013.6506033
DO - 10.1109/PECI.2013.6506033
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84877819392
SN - 9781467356022
T3 - 2013 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, PECI 2013
SP - 48
EP - 52
BT - 2013 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, PECI 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois, PECI 2013
Y2 - 22 February 2013 through 23 February 2013
ER -