Mariya Hristova Dimitrova

Software tool to predict the Wind Energy production losses due to icing

The icing causes energy losses for wind turbines. Impact of ice is difficult to quantify without experimental tests and numerical simulations due to the lack of real data from the field. The high cost of wind tunnel testing, conducted to the necessity to develop a numerical approach that can accurately evaluate the energy losses for different configurations of wind turbine and weather conditions at lower cost and over a shorter period. PROICET is a numerical model to calculate the annual energy production of a wind turbine considering the icing events. This model can elsewhere quantify the energy losses induced by the ice.