Journal
ENERGY
Volume 113, Issue -, Pages 487-496Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.07.062
Keywords
Offshore wind farm; Layout optimization; Restricted offshore area; Particle swarm optimization; Irregular wind farm layout
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- Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) from Research Council of Norway (RCN) [193821/S60]
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In this research, an optimization method for offshore wind farm layout design is proposed. With the purpose of maximizing the energy production of the wind farm, the wind turbine (WT) positions are optimized. Due to the limitations of seabed conditions, marine traffic limitations or shipwrecks, etc., the WTs are expected to be placed outside specific areas. Based on this fact, a restriction zone concept is proposed in this paper and implemented with the penalty function method. In order to find a feasible solution, a recent proposed stochastic algorithm, particle swarm optimization algorithm with multiple adaptive methods (PSO-MAM) is adopted. The simulation results indicate that the proposed method can find a layout which outperforms a baseline layout of a reference wind farm (RWF) by increasing the energy yield by 3.84%. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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