EPE Wind Energy Chapter (EPE-WE)

·        Mission

·        Specific Objectives

·        Activities

·        Organisation

·         Interesting Papers and Books

·         Interesting Wind Energy Simulation Tools

·         Associations


Chapter Chair

Prof. Dr. Jean-Luc Thomas, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) - Départment Electrotechnique

Mission

The Wind Energy Chapter’s goal is to promote the electro-technical parts of

Specific Objectives

At EPE conferences, the EPE Wind Energy Chapter will be responsible for

At the European Union level

At the Educational level

Additional suggestions can be sent to us

Activities

Future activities

The second EPE Joint Wind Energy and T&D Chapters Seminar, which will take place on June 28 th-29th, 2012 in the Utzon Centre, Aalborg, Denmark.

The program of the symposium will include the areas and topics on interest from the list below:

1. Wind Energy Conversion Technologies


2. Control of wind power plants and their transmission solutions

3. Protection in wind power plants and transmission solutions

4. Grid connection and compliance of wind power

5 . Reliability of the Electrical Parts of Wind Energy Systems

6. T&D power electronics (non-wind power related)

7. Energy storage for wind power integration

8. Future Trends of Wind Energy Conversion and Power Electronic Applications

Presentations from companies supplying wind turbines, wind turbine equipment, grid equipment manufacturers, developers, utilities, etc... are most welcome.

Click here to go to the Website of the seminar
Click here (.pdf) or here (.doc)* for the Sponsor’s Form

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The Sponsor’s form is to be completed and faxed back to +32 / (0)2 – 629.36.20, or to be sent to
bsneyers@vub.ac.be.

Past activities

The EPE Wind Energy Chapter organised:
- The first Joint Wind Energy and T&D Chapters Seminar, which took place on May 9th-11th, 2011 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

he Third EPE- Wind Energy Chapter Seminar, which took place on April 15th-16th, 2010 at the Staffordshire University, Stafford, United Kingdom

The Second EPE- Wind Energy Chapter Seminar, which took place on April 23th-24th, 2009 at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

The first EPE- Wind Energy Chapter Seminar, which took place on March 27th-28th, 2008 at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands.

In collaboration with IEEE, the “Joint EPE and IEEE Wind Day – Power Electronics for Wind Energy” at EPE2007 in Aalborg, Denmark, 3 September  2007

 

Organisation

The Chapter is composed by a Board and an advisory council. The board proposes activities to be discussed by the advisory council. Board and council meetings are limited to the EPE conferences; otherwise the communication is through email. Yearly activity report is to be presented to the EPE EC.

Activities could be field trips to producers of wind turbines and to wind farms. Every second year a seminar should be organized, with a goal of 100 attendees.

Additional suggestions can be sent to us.

EPE Joint Wind Energy and T&D Chapter Board:

·         Prof. Jean-Luc Thomas, Professeur Titulaire de Chaire, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Electrotechnique / SUPELEC, Paris, France, Co-Chairman

·         Roger Critchley, Alstom Grid, Co-Chairman

·         Prof. Rik De Doncker, Aachen, Germany

·         Prof. Braham Ferreira, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

·         Prof. Dr.-Ing. Friedrich W. Fuchs, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany  

·         Prof. Sjoerd de Haan, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

·         Dr Philip C. Kjćr, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Denmark

·         Prof. Hans-Peter Nee, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

·         Prof  Sarath B Tennakoon, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom

·         Prof. Torbjörn Thiringer, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

·         Prof. Tore Undeland, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

 

EPE Joint Wind Energy and T&D Chapter Advisory Council:

·         Prof. Jean-Luc Thomas, Professeur Titulaire de Chaire, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Electrotechnique / SUPELEC, Paris, France, Co-Chairman

·         Roger Critchley, Alstom Grid, Co-Chairman

·         Dr. Terje Gjengedal, Statnett, Norway

·         Dr. Lars Helle, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Denmark

·         Dr. Philip C. Kjćr, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Denmark

·         Richard Lund, Smartmotor, Norway

·         Prof. Marta Molinas, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

·         Dr. Jouko Niiranen, ABB Oy, Helsinki, Finland

·         Prof. Tonny W. Rasmussen, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

·         Prof. Benoit Robyns, Ecole des Hautes Etudes d'Ingénieur (HEI), Lille, France

·         Prof. Noel Shammas, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom

·         Prof. Torbjörn Thiringer, , Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

·         Prof. Tore Undeland, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway


Useful information

Interesting papers and books:

Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines (2nd Edition)
Martin O.L. Hansen, Earthscan, December 2007

 

Alternate Energy: Assessment & Implementation Reference Book
James J Winebrake, CRC Press, 2003

 

An End to Global Warming

Laurence O Williams, Elsevier  2002

 

Energy Technology and Directions for the Future
John R. Fanchi, Elsevier Science, February 2004

 

Energy in the 21st Century

John R Fanchi, World Scientific Press, March 2005


Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes
Aldo da Rosa, Academic Press, September 2005

 

Green Trading Markets: Developing the Second Wave
Peter C. Fusaro and Marion Yuen, Elsevier Science, June 2005

 

Handbook of Offshore Engineering (2-volume set)
Subrata Chakrabarti, Elsevier, December 2004

 

Making the Most of Sunshine: A Handbook of Solar Energy for the Common Man
S. Narayanaswamy Vikas, Publishing House PVT Ltd., 2001

 

Micro Energy Systems: Review of Technology, Issues of Scale and Integration
Edited by Michael Knowles, Bob Beith and Ian Burdon Wiley, September 2004

 

Prospects for Sustainable Energy - A Critical Assessment
Edward S. Cassedy, Cambridge University Press, 2000

 

Renewable Energies for Central Asia Countries: Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts
Edited by Aldo Iacomelli, Springer 2005

 

Renewable Energy in Europe - Building markets and capacity
Edited by European Renewable Energy Council, Earthscan, May 2004

 

Renewable Energy, Third Edition

Bent Sorensen, Academic Press  August 2004

 

Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems
Gilbert M. Masters, Wiley, 2004

 

The Future for Renewable Energy 2

James & James (Science Publishers) Ltd., March 2002

 

Understanding Renewable Energy Systems

Volker Quaschning, Earthscan, January 2005

 

Wind Energy on CD-ROM (version 2)

Birger T. Madsen, Per Krogsgaard, Kell Oehlenschlaeger, Preben Mkersen, Per Nielsen, Lars-Bo Albinus, Niels Daugaard, Kenneth Larsen, updated Gian Luca Ferrero, LIOR, 2005

 

Wind Power - Renewable Energy For Home, Farm And Business - 2nd Edition
Paul Gipe, Earthscan, July 2004

 

Wind Power Plants - Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation
Edited by Prof.Dr.-Ing.Robert Gasch and Dr.-Ing.Jochen Twele, James and James, October 2005

 

Wind Power in Power Systems

Edited by Thomas Ackermann, Wiley, January 2005

 

Wind Stress over the Ocean

Edited by Ian S. F. Jones, Yoshiaki Toba, Cambridge University Press, November 2001

 

Wind Turbines - Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, Economics - 2nd Edition
E. Hau, Springer, 2006

 

Wind and Solar Power Systems: Design, Analysis, and Operation - 2nd Edition
Mukund R. Patel, CRC Press, 2005

 

World Energy Resources

CE Brown, Springer 2002

-          Additional suggestions can be send to us

Interesting wind energy simulation tools:
(Special thanks to the people from the National Wind Technology Center, Goldern, Co. for providing most of these links)

ADAMS2AD
ADAMS2AD is a set of routines used to interface MSC.ADAMS® and AeroDyn.


AeroDyn
AeroDyn is an aerodynamics software library for use by designers of horizontal-axis wind turbines. It is written to be interfaced with structural-dynamics simulators (
MSC.ADAMS®, FAST, YawDyn, and SymDyn).

 

Bladed software by Garrad Hassan

FAST
FAST is a medium-complexity code for nonlinear aero-servo-elastic analysis of horizontal-axis wind turbines.  It can also extract linear state-space models for controls design and can be used to to generate
MSC.ADAMS® models.


NAFNoise
NAFNoise is a code for determing 2-D airfoil noise using a variety of methods.


PLECS
PLECS™ is an electrical simulation software tool that is useful for simulating power electronic systems including wind turbines. It is designed by Plexim GmbH in Zürich, Switzerland. Application examples for wind turbine systems can be found here:
http://www.plexim.com/downloads/plecs_examples_dfig.html


Power Factory by DigSilent


PROPID
PROPID (PROP Inverse Design) is aerodynamic design software developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. You can use it to design rotors. Use this link to visit their site.


PSCAD
PSCAD™ is an easy-to-use power system simulator for the design and verification of all types of power systems. It is designed by the Manitoba HVDC Research Centre in Canada.


RPM-Sim
RPM-Sim is an application-specific study of the system dynamics of renewable-energy hybrid (wind-diesel-PV-load etc.) power-systems.

 

TurbSim
TurbSim is a is a stochastic, full-field, turbulent-wind simulator. It is a descendant of SNLWIND-3D and SNwind with many new features.

 

WT Perf
WT_Perf estimates wind-turbine performance.

 

YawDyn
YawDyn is a simple code for aerodynamic and dynamic analysis of constant rpm rotors with two or more blades and a teetering or rigid hub.

 

-          Additional suggestions can be send to us

Associations:

EPE Association Home The homepage of the European Power Electronics (EPE) Society with links to the conferences and workshops.

EWEA The European Wind Energy Association

NORWEA The Norwegian Wind Energy Association

Finnish Wind Energy Association

International Energy Agency-Wind

Swedish Wind Energy Asociation

Danish Wind Power Industry Organisation

Last Change: Philippe Hamacher, 21 October 2010
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