🌬️ Tees Bay Wind Operations & Power-Curve Lab

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🌬️ Tees Bay Wind Operations & Power-Curve Lab

An offshore-wind operations model for the cubic power law, swept area, pitch and yaw control, Betz’s ideal ceiling, storm cut-out, converter-mediated grid output and fault diagnosis. It is not a manufacturer-specific curve.

← Lessons40:00Load mission

Arrival · 5m

Hook · 5m

Model · 10m

Investigate · 15m

Influence · 5m

Mission brief PUPIL ROUTE CHOICE

Mission

Prototype · synthetic / simplified model

Turbine operations board · v³ power, controller and fault finding

BELOW RATED SAFE ENVELOPE

Turbine telemetry

Wind speed5.0 m/sAvailable wind power— MWModel Cₚ—Electrical output— MWGrid request5.0 MWFatigue proxy—Converter output50 Hz model

Power-curve recorder

Record 5 m/s and 10 m/s to reveal the cube comparison.

1 · Learner route & prediction

Confidence before1–5

2 · Aerodynamic controls

Wind speed5.0 m/s

Blade radius70 m

Pitch angle4°

Yaw error0°

3 · Grid-duty challenge

Grid request5 MW

Meet the request where possible without running beyond the safe envelope.

Run	Wind	Pitch	Output	State

4 · Fault diagnosis

No diagnostic test used.

5 · Hinge check

Why is turbine electrical output not simply 59.3% of wind power at every speed?

6 · Claim–evidence–reasoning

Use: “With radius fixed at __ m, 5 m/s gave __ MW available and 10 m/s gave __ MW. The ratio was __ because …”

7 · Physical twin

Rotor control demonstration · 8 minutes

Use paper rotors or a guarded classroom turbine. A desk fan is optional and teacher-controlled.
Keep fingers, hair and loose clothing clear. Do not modify mains equipment.

Compare two fan distances qualitatively.
Change blade pitch and observe start / stall behaviour.
Record why the demonstration is not a quantitative power measurement.
Connect the observation to the digital power curve.

8 · Learner influence & export

Confidence after1–5

What helped?Next route

Teaching controller, not a manufacturer curve or grid-operating tool.

The 59.3% value is used only as the classical ideal actuator-disc Betz ceiling. Cut-in, rated and cut-out values are transparent teaching defaults.

Teacher Lens · decision support

Interaction events0Recorded trials0Hints opened0Current routeguidedHinge responseNot answered

Rule-based review prompts

These signals are generated from button choices and action patterns. They are not grades, diagnoses or substitutes for teacher judgement.

Teacher freeze · think before touching controls

Mission checkpoint