Simulation study of communication network for wind power farm

Author

Ahmed, Mohamed A. ; Yang, Won-Hyuk ; Kim, Young-Chon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Chonbuk Nat. Univ., Jeonju, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

28-30 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

706

Lastpage

709

Abstract

Wind farm industry as a green energy is growing very fast. One of the most important demands in wind farm is to design a reliable communication network for wind power farm (WPF) monitoring. In this paper, a WPF network simulator is developed to evaluate the performance of a Wind Turbine (WT) which consists of logical nodes according to IEC 61400-25 standard. Each logical node can transmit analogue/status information collected from sensors and receive control information from the main controller. The amount of sensing data depends on the sampling frequency of monitoring devices. The functions of logical nodes are modeled by OPNET modeler in order to implement the simulator. Using the developed simulator, the performance of a wind turbine, which consists of nine logical nodes and Ethernet link, is evaluated according to various link speeds.

Keywords

IEC standards; local area networks; power engineering computing; telecommunication network reliability; wind power plants; wind turbines; Ethernet link; IEC 61400-25 standard; OPNET modeler; WPF monitoring; WPF network simulator; WT; analogue-status information transmission; logical nodes function; reliable communication network simulation study; sampling frequency; wind power farm industry; wind turbine; Communication networks; Delay; IEC standards; Monitoring; Sensors; Wind power generation; Wind turbines; Ethernet; IEC 61400–25; Logical Node; OPNET; Wind turbine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ICT Convergence (ICTC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1267-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTC.2011.6082681

Filename

6082681