Information Technology seminars
Mixed integer programming models for wind farm design
- Date and time:
- 03/09/2008, 14:00
- Location:
- Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton Campus
- Presenters:
- Hamish Waterer, Department of Engineering Science,
The University of Auckland
- Abstract:
- There is significant potential for optimizing the design of a wind farm in New Zealand. The complex nature of the wind resource and the larger size of the wind farms being built increase the complexity of the decisions that need to be made, while tight economic margins create a drive for greater efficiency. Current industry practice utilises commercial packages that are heuristic in nature and limited in the types of constraints that can be modelled.
A mixed integer programming model for optimizing the layout of a wind farm has been developed that is capable of determining the optimal locations of turbines subject to constraints on the number of turbines, turbine proximity, and turbine wake. Results have shown that this model produces layouts that are comparable to those from a commercial package. Moreover, this model can be extended to include capital budget constraints, noise and line of sight restrictions, constraints relating to wind quality such as maximum gusts, inflow angles and turbulence, as well as modelling reticulation and different mixes of turbines.
- Speaker biographies:
- Hamish Waterer graduated from The University of Auckland with a BE awarded with first class honours in 1995 and an ME in 1997. He received his PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, in 2001, and spent the following two years as a post doctoral research fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, l'Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium, before returning to the Department of Engineering Science as a Lecturer in 2004. His research interests are the theory and application of exact solution methods in mixed integer programming.
- Enquiries:
- Contact: Jeanette Niehus
- Research group website:
-
http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/research/centres/cris/index.html
