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Farm Loads:

Farmloads is a project that further develops the initial studies in which equivalent loads were calculated with the so-called actuator disc and actuator line methods. The actuator disc method is relatively fast, which means that large parks can be calculated on supercomputers available to the research group.

By evaluating loads on lines (the actuator line method) or on a section of a disk surface (the actuator disc method) at each time step, a time series of loads is obtained. This time series is evaluated and equivalent forces are calculated. The properties of time series can be linked to different types of wear damage in different components and types of damage. Initial investigations together with Vattenfall show good agreement between calculated loads and detected blade damage.

Financed by Swedish Energy Agency

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Nordic Consortium:

Optimization and Control of large wind farms

The Nordic Consortium is a collabouration between Uppsala university UU, The Royal Institute of Techniology KTH, The Technical University of Denmark DTU and industrial partners from Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The consortium is a long term collabouration that gathers a number of ongoing projects.

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Swedish Representant

IEA Annex 31, participation since 2011

WakeBench

Financed by VindForsk

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IEA (Internation Energy Agency) Task 29 - MexNext

Analysis of wind tunnel measurements

This project is a part of the nordic consortium.

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Financed by Swedish Energy Agency and VindForsk