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CSME 2022/02
Volume 43 No.1
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21-27
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Development of Auxiliary SCADA System for Wind Farm Operation Based on Open Platform Communication
Jui-Hung Liua, Kathleen Padrigalan a and Rong-Mao Leeb
aDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan 710301, ROC.
bDepartment of Intelligent Robotics, National Pingtung University, Pingtung, Taiwan 900391, ROC.
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Abstract:
The remote supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system is necessary for the wind turbine (WT) operation and the management of a wind farm. Technicians can resolve minor WT failures remotely and prepare equipment and spare parts for an on-site maintenance in advance with theaid of the SCADA system. This work is a case study, malfunction of the SCADA system for a wind farm in middle-Taiwan was encountered but the maintenance of WT manufacturer was no longer available due to the company bankruptcy. Since the emerged SCADA system failure is mainly caused by the storage and access of database, an auxiliary SCADA system based on the open platform communication (OPC) was designed to recover the SCADA system function. The OPC-based SCADA system is capable of retrieving data and reconstructing data structure from the WT controller directly. The rebuilt database has been employed in a front-tier web-based interface to regenerate the monitoring function for this wind farm.
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Keywords: wind energy, wind turbine, O&M, SCADA, OPC.
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CSME , ISSN 0257-9731
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