Aufbauend auf dem Erfolg ihrer Zusammenarbeit beim ReLACs-Projekt haben ZX Lidars und sowento eine weitere, neue Initiative gestartet, um die Vorteile von ZX Continuous Wave (CW) Lidars für Lidar Assisted Control (LAC) zu demonstrieren.

(WK-intern) – Die Initiative untersucht die kommerziellen Vorteile, die LAC bieten muss, die Art und Weise, wie ZX CW-Lösungen diese Vorteile erreichen können, sowie die Robustheit und Empfindlichkeit des prognostizierten Kosten-Nutzen-Verhältnisses von ZX CW LAC.

Der definierte Projektumfang wird ein breites Spektrum an Turbinensegmenten abdecken, darunter Onshore-, Offshore- und schwimmende Turbinensysteme, alle mit unterschiedlichen Rotorgrößen, und sowohl für eigenständige Turbinen als auch für Windparks mit kumuliertem Nutzen.

„ZX investiert, um unserer Branche dabei zu helfen, in Bereichen voranzukommen, in denen echte und greifbare Vorteile erzielt werden können, um die Energiegestehungskosten von Windparks zu senken – sei es durch die Verbesserung der Turbinenkapazität und -leistung, die Verlängerung der Projektlebensdauer oder die Optimierung der Jahresproduktion. Wir freuen uns sehr, erneut mit unseren Freunden bei sowento zusammenzuarbeiten, um das Ergebnis dieser wichtigen Initiative zur Lidar-gestützten Steuerung zu maximieren.“ fügte Steven White, Direktor von Turbine Mounted Lidar bei ZX, hinzu.

„Lidar-gestützte Steuerung ist eine Kernkompetenz von sowento und wir freuen uns, die Technologie in einer Zusammenarbeit mit ZX Lidars weiter voranzutreiben“, sagt Steffen Raach, Geschäftsführer von sowento. „Wir haben ein starkes Projektteam gebildet, das an den verschiedenen Projektthemen arbeitet, mit unseren Lidar-Experten David Schlipf, einem weltweit führenden Experten für Lidar-gestützte Steuerung, und Wei Fu, einer Lidar-Expertin, die gerade ihre Dissertation an der DTU über die Charakterisierung abgeschlossen hat von Turbulenzen mithilfe gondelbasierter Lidar-Systeme“, erklärt Steffen. „Dieses Projekt ist ein weiterer Schritt in Richtung der Verwirklichung, dass jede zukünftige Windkraftanlage gondelbasierte Lidar-Systeme haben wird“, fügt David Schlipf hinzu.
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ZX Lidars and sowento embark on a new Lidar Assisted Control initiative to support industry innovation

Building on the success of their collaboration on the ReLACs project, ZX Lidars and sowento have embarked on a further, new initiative to demonstrate the benefits of ZX Continuous Wave (CW) Lidars for Lidar Assisted Control (LAC). The initiative will explore the commercial gains that LAC needs to provide, the ways in which ZX CW solutions can meet those gains and the robustness and sensitivity of the predicted ZX CW LAC cost-benefit. The defined project scope will cover a broad range of turbine segments including onshore, offshore and floating turbine systems, all of differing rotor sizes, and for both standalone turbines and wind farm accumulated benefit.

“ZX is investing to help our industry advance in areas where real and tangible benefits can be made to reduce the levelized cost of energy of wind farms – be that improving turbine capability and performance, increasing project life, or optimising annual production. We are very pleased to be working with our friends at sowento again to maximise the outcome of this important Lidar Assisted Control initiative.” added Steven White, Director of Turbine mounted lidar at ZX.

„Lidar-assisted control is a core expertise of sowento and we are happy to advance the technology in a collaboration with ZX Lidars“, says Steffen Raach, Managing Director of sowento. „We have formed a strong project team working on the different project topics with our lidar experts David Schlipf, a world-wide leading expert on lidar-assisted control, and Wei Fu, a lidar expert who just completed her dissertation at DTU on the characterization of turbulence using nacelle-based lidar systems,“ explains Steffen. „This project is another step towards the realisation of having nacelle-based lidar systems on every future wind turbine, “ adds David Schlipf.

About ZX Lidars (formerly ZephIR Lidar)

ZX Lidars provides industry-leading wind lidar products, ZX 300, ZX 300M and ZX TM for wind energy and meteorological applications. These Lidars deliver accurate wind measurements in both onshore and offshore applications at measurement heights / ranges across the full swept area of the blades of modern wind turbines, and beyond. With more than 30 million hours of operation in the field and over 10,000 deployments (and counting), ZX Lidars has pioneered the use of Lidar in the wind industry. The company is proud of the many world firsts it has achieved with customers including: upwind measurements from a turbine nacelle, turbine wake studies, offshore deployments of both fixed and floating wind lidar, an industry-accepted validation process, re-financing and re-powering of a wind farm, successful demonstration of measurement accuracy in a wind tunnel and total wind project financing from a lidar without need for a met mast. More information can be found at www.zxlidars.com and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/zx-lidars/

About sowento

sowento is an engineering consultancy and technology advisor, with its main business fields in lidar technology and floating wind as well as control applications. sowento is a spin-off from the University of Stuttgart and provides modelling, simulation and control solutions to various stakeholders of the wind energy industry. Our contribution to realize strong renewable energies is to strengthen them through innovation from research, empower the wind energy community, our team, and individuals to develop high quality results, knowledge, and smart technical solutions and to aim for the problems of today and tomorrow.

The team of sowento has more than 10 years experience in developing, customizing, and testing lidar-assisted control solutions for various wind turbines and sites. The main services in the lidar technology business are technology consultancy – proof of concepts and feasibility study of lidar- assisted control, advanced lidar-assisted controller design and data processing, performance assessment: power and load optimization with lidar-assisted control, field- testing and integrated design of lidar control and software solutions for lidar technology.

More information can be found on www.sowento.com and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/sowento/

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