Viability Assessment of a Rigid Wing Airborne Wind Energy Pumping System
G. Licitra1, J. Koenemann1, G. Horn2, P. Williams3, R. Ruiterkamp3, M. Diehl4
1 University of Freiburg & Ampyx Power B.V.
2 Kitty Hawk
3 Ampyx Power B.V.
4 University of Freiburg
Abstract
Airborne wind energy (AWE) is an emerging technology that is capable of harvesting wind energy by flying crosswind flight patterns with a tethered aircraft. Nowadays, several companies are trying to scale-up their concept in order to be competitive in the energy market. However, the scaling process requires several iterations and trade-off among the different components in terms of requirements that have to satisfy both technological and economical viability. In this paper, we show how to deal with this task by means of an optimal control approach combined with statistical analysis based on the established methods for conventional Wind Energy Conversion Systems. This approach is applied to a rigid wing pumping mode AWE System (AWES) built by Ampyx Power B.V..
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Session
Applications and Case Studies (Lecture)
Reference
Licitra, G.; Koenemann, J.; Horn, G.; Williams, P.; Ruiterkamp, R.; Diehl, M.: Viability Assessment of a Rigid Wing Airborne Wind Energy Pumping System. Editors: Fikar, M. and Kvasnica, M., In Proceedings of the 2017 21st International Conference on Process Control (PC), Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia, June 6 – 9, 452–458, 2017.
BibTeX
| @inProceedings{pc2017-032, | ||
| author | = { | Licitra, G. and Koenemann, J. and Horn, G. and Williams, P. and Ruiterkamp, R. and Diehl, M.}, |
| title | = { | Viability Assessment of a Rigid Wing Airborne Wind Energy Pumping System}, |
| booktitle | = { | Proceedings of the 2017 21st International Conference on Process Control (PC)}, |
| year | = { | 2017}, |
| pages | = { | 452-458}, |
| editor | = { | Fikar, M. and Kvasnica, M.}, |
| address | = { | \v{S}trbsk\'e Pleso, Slovakia}} |