Wind Profile and Power Performance Measurements Using a Nine-beam Nacelle Lidar

Hirokazu Kawabata^1, , Yoshihiro Kikushima¹ and Tetsuya Kogaki¹

¹Renewable Energy Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Cite this paper:
Hirokazu Kawabata, Yoshihiro Kikushima and Tetsuya Kogaki. Wind Profile and Power Performance Measurements Using a Nine-beam Nacelle Lidar. American Journal of Mechanical Engineering. 2018; 6(2):75-82. doi: 10.12691/ajme-6-2-6

Abstract

Light detection and ranging (lidar) is a remote sensing method that can measure the average wind speed of larger volumes compared with conventional wind sensors like cup anemometers. Two-beam nacelle lidar is the most representative remote sensor for wind inflow measurement. The remote sensors and conventional wind sensors cannot measure the wind profile it influences the power generation output. Wind data were measured for a 300-kW wind turbine using both a nacelle anemometer installed in it and a nine-beam nacelle lidar, and then compared. The authors were able to obtain a wind profile by using a nine-beam nacelle lidar, which can irradiate the laser in nine directions and observe the inside of the target volume at a higher resolution than the two-beam version. Unlike nacelle lidars released in the past, the recent nine-beam version allowed also wind profile observations. Since the power output of the turbine was influenced by the wind profile, its relationship with the rotor equivalent wind speed (REWS) was clarified.

Keywords:
wind turbine remote sensing wind measurement

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