Proceedings (Nov 2018)

Control and Monitoring System for Hydraulic Microturbines Test Benches

  • Mario Álvarez Fernández,
  • Samuel Camba Fernández,
  • Aitor Fernández Jiménez,
  • Manuel Rico-Secades,
  • Eduardo Álvarez Álvarez,
  • Antonio J. Calleja Rodríguez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2231445
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 23
p. 1445

Abstract

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The present project aims to design the control and monitoring system for a test bench that will help to calculate the power level that can be extracted from wind vertical axis hydrokinetic microturbines. The workbench includes a hydraulic system calculated to, through a recirculation between two tanks, achieve high fluid speed in the canal, and the monitoring and power electronics systems to adjust different hydraulic parameters and to control the operation of the microturbine under test, providing the necessary measures to obtain the power coefficient versus tip speed ratio (Cp-λ) curves of the microturbine which will help to extract the Maximum Power Point.

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