Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
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Is there a book or any kind of document/article that has the electrical part of a wind farm construction well explained.
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Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
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RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
1) what generators would be the best in the towers?
2) why use Wye-Delta and not Delta-Wye as Padmounts?
3) Why use Delta-Wye-Delta transformer at the substation?
4) What kind of breakers to use ( vac,sf6,oil ) and why?
5) Would grounding transformers really help?
its basic stuff but would really help...
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RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
2) through 5) find a good distribution book.
Except 3), I've never seen this configuration.
RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
(2) through (5) depend on specifics of the installation. A thorough explanation would require an entire EE text book.
(4) Vacuum breakers are probably most common in the U.S., but others certainly are available. It depends on cost, owner preference, consistency with other installations, local support, knowledge of maintenance folks, etc.
Alan
"The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is." Unk.
RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
Here is my situation, just finished my school and got a job as an electrical inspector on a wind farm. There are so many questions that pop up every day and feels like instead of surfing every question, would b great to have on reference which i guess is not that easy to find as there are many principles involved.
The new question popped in yesterday.
we have a Wye-Delta pad mounts at each tower and Delta-Wye at the Substation, however there is copper running underground along with the MV-cable, was wondering if the the copper and the concentric's from the MV-cable should be connected to the same ground bar in the Junction Box? and why...
Not just saying it , but you guys really make a difference... this site rocks...
RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
Alan
"The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is." Unk.
RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
I would strongly suggest you hire an experienced engineer. Designing from books is a bad/dangerous idea.
Alan
"The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is." Unk.
RE: Electrical Part of a Windfarm Construction
Well I bet you regret selling away your textbooks after graduation, now, don't you?
If you can stomach a bit more school, there are professional education schools that do this stuff. EPIC sometimes offers a 3-day course in wind farm management, and I've attended a course in electrical system bonding and grounding myself (I would have preferred the wind farm course, but a schedule conflict made me switch).
EPIC is in Canada, but I doubt it would take long to find an equivalent in the USA (where I assume you are).
Steven Fahey, CET