Acoustic control of wind farms
Résumé
Great attention is currently paid to protecting res-
idential areas from the noise pollution due to wind turbines.
A family of acoustic constraints was developed to assess it.
Maximizing electricity production under these constraints is
difficult as they rapidly evolve with weather conditions and
background noise. Today, this problem is addressed by computing
a curtailment plan involving fixed operating modes, but the
chosen modes are often suboptimal. In this article, we show
that this problem can be expressed as a non-linear knapsack
problem and we solve it using an efficient branch-and-bound
(B&B) algorithm that converges asymptotically to the global
optimum. The algorithm is initialised with a greedy heuristic
that iteratively downgrades the turbines with the best acoustical
to electricity loss ratio. The solution is then refined using a depth-
first search strategy and a bounding stage based on a continuous
relaxation problem solved with an adapted gradient algorithm.
The results are evaluated using data from 28 real wind farms.
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