US 12,018,646 B2
Large-scale model testing system of floating offshore wind power generation device and method for manufacturing testing system
Chaohe Chen, Guangdong (CN); Jialong Jiao, Guangdong (CN); Aihua Liu, Guangdong (CN); Yifeng Lin, Guangdong (CN); Qiren Wu, Guangdong (CN); Yunzhi Liu, Guangdong (CN); Xinqun Chen, Guangdong (CN); Taiping Liu, Guangdong (CN); Junfeng Liu, Guangdong (CN); Jianping Liu, Guangdong (CN); Zhongliang Wang, Guangdong (CN); Wei Wang, Guangdong (CN); Yuan Xu, Guangdong (CN); Yangyang Xue, Guangdong (CN); Chengdi Lin, Guangdong (CN); Binqi Li, Guangdong (CN); Renshu Xiong, Guangdong (CN); Xinxin Xu, Guangdong (CN); Daojun Ni, Guangdong (CN); Yajing Li, Guangdong (CN); Zhaoqing Liu, Guangdong (CN); Lili Zhou, Guangdong (CN); Pengfei Chen, Guangdong (CN); and Tianhui Fan, Guangdong (CN)
Assigned to Three Gorges Zhujiang Power Generation Co., Ltd., Guangzhou (CN); and South China University of Technology, Guangzhou (CN)
Filed by Three Gorges Zhujiang Power Generation Co., Ltd., Guangdong (CN); and South China University of Technology, Guangdong (CN)
Filed on May 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/308,004.
Claims priority of application No. 202011172546.7 (CN), filed on Oct. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0128036 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. F03D 13/30 (2016.01); B63B 35/44 (2006.01); B63B 79/15 (2020.01); F03D 13/25 (2016.01); G01M 9/08 (2006.01)
CPC F03D 13/30 (2016.05) [F03D 13/25 (2016.05); G01M 9/08 (2013.01); B63B 2035/446 (2013.01); B63B 79/15 (2020.01); F05B 2260/83 (2013.01); F05B 2260/84 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
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1. A large-scale model testing system of a floating offshore wind power generation device, comprising:
a floating wind power generation device model, model response measurement systems and environmental parameter measurement systems, wherein the floating wind power generation device model comprises a floating foundation (1); the floating foundation (1) comprises pile legs (16), and a support (17) is connected between the pile legs (16); a tower (2) is connected to a center of an upper surface of the floating foundation (1), and has a diameter that gradually decreases from a bottom end to a top end; a wind turbine (3) is connected to a top of the tower (2); a plurality of anchoring devices (4) is connected to a side surface of the floating foundation (1); each anchoring device (4) comprises anchor chains (5) that are connected to the floating foundation (1), and a plurality of anchor blocks (6) connected to the respective anchor chains (5); each model response measurement system comprises an Inertial measurement unit (IMU) (7), a wind turbine monitoring unit (8) and an anchoring tension measurement unit (9);
a method for manufacturing the large-scale model testing system of a floating offshore wind power generation device comprising the following steps:
S1, determining a scale ratio of the floating wind power generation device model according to a law of similarity in Froude number: firstly, comprehensively determining a scale ratio of the floating foundation (1) and the tower (2) according to test requirements, production cost, and repeatability of wind and wave environments; then, manufacturing the floating foundation (1) and the tower (2) from steel; scaling external profiles of the floating foundation (1) and the tower (2) as same as those of a real-scale device according to the scale ratio;
S2, performing design and type selection on the wind turbine according to a principle of equivalent similarity of wind thrust: determining a geometrical scale ratio of a wind turbine (3) model through wave height-wave period distribution parameters of a real scale and a model scale and corresponding relationships between wind velocities and wave levels; appropriately correcting geometric shapes of model blades to ensure that a horizontal thrust of the wind turbine (3) model on the upper connection of the tower (2) and a thrust of a wind turbine (3) in the real-scale device on the fixed end of the tower (2) meet a Froude number similarity condition, wherein the geometrical scale ratio of the wind turbine (3) model can be different from the scale ratio of the floating foundation (1);
S3, selecting a sea area location of a large-scale model test in conjunction with a selected model scale ratio, wherein the selection process is as follows:
a. collecting sea condition information of a working sea area of a real-scale floating offshore wind power generation device to be simulated, and calculating sea condition information required for a test of a model device according to a law of similarity;
b. calculating the law of similarity:

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wherein, H is a significant wave height, T is a characteristic period, and λ is a scale ratio; the subscripts p and m represent a real scale and a model scale respectively;
c. selecting a sea area under test that meets the law of similarity according to long-term statistical data of sea waves in the sea area under test and a principle of maximum repeatability, by means of comprehensive consideration of sea area location, climate season, weather conditions, offshore distance and test time;
S4, setting the manufactured floating wind power generation device model in the sea area under test, and fixing it with the anchoring devices (4); determining lengths and a fixing method of the anchor chains (5) according to the water depths of the sea area under test, collecting force conditions of the anchoring devices (4) through the anchoring tension measurement unit (9), and ensuring that the force conditions of the anchoring systems on the model scale and the real scale satisfy the Froude number similarity condition; and
S5, deploying a plurality of environmental parameter measurement systems in a sea area at a certain distance from the floating wind power generation device model; transmitting measurement signals of the respective sensors in the model response measurement systems and the environmental parameter measurement systems to a shore-side data acquisition instrument in real time through a radio signal transmission device for storage.