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Utility
Methods and systems for generating wind turbine control schedules
17 Aug 20
Generating a control schedule for a wind turbine, the control schedule indicating how the turbine maximum power level varies over time.
Chris Spruce, Chakradhar Byreddy, Kelvin Hales, Judith Turner
Filed: 21 Jun 16
Utility
Method and system for controlling a wind turbine to manage edgewise blade vibrations
10 Aug 20
A method of controlling a wind turbine comprising at least one rotor blade, and at least one accelerometer housed within a nacelle or a tower of the wind turbine.
Kasper Zinck Østergaard, Martin Brødsgaard, Tobias Gybel Hovgaard
Filed: 6 Apr 17
Utility
Wind power plant controller
3 Aug 20
The present invention relates a power plant controller (PPC), the power plant controller to control produced power from a wind power plant (WPP), the wind power plant comprises at least a plurality of wind turbine generators, the wind power plant being connected to an electrical grid, wherein the power plant controller, in the event of receiving a signal indicative of a predefined event in the wind power plant, is capable of controlling the wind power plant so that the produced power, from the wind power plant to the electric grid, is a negative amount of active power.
Jorge Martinez Garcia, Kouroush Nayebi, Rubin Panni
Filed: 13 Dec 18
Utility
Power boost of a wind turbine using model predictive control
3 Aug 20
The present disclosure relates to a control of a wind turbine in connection with power boosting or fast increase of active power production.
Tobias Gybel Hovgaard, Peter Fogh Odgaard
Filed: 3 Oct 16
Utility
Controlling wind turbines according to reliability estimates
27 Jul 20
There is presented a method for controlling a plurality of wind turbines comprising measuring wind turbine operation parameters in a model relating a plurality of wind turbine parameters to each other, estimating one wind turbine operation parameter value based on the model and the measured remaining wind turbine operation parameter values, providing a reliability parameter value for each wind turbine based on a difference value, said difference value being a difference between the estimated wind turbine operation parameter value, and the measured wind turbine operation parameter value corresponding to the wind turbine operation parameter for which the estimated wind turbine operation parameter value is provided, and controlling the plurality of wind turbines based on the corresponding plurality of reliability parameter values.
Kouroush Nayebi, Jacob Deleuran Grunnet, Jesper Sandberg Thomsen
Filed: 30 Nov 16
Utility
Wind turbine blade surface treatment apparatus
20 Jul 20
Apparatus for treating a surface of a wind turbine blade (14), comprising an expandable structure (22) that is deployable from a collapsed state into an expanded state in which the structure defines an elongated treatment zone (32) into which a blade (14) is receivable in use.
Karthik Krishnan Jamuna
Filed: 5 Oct 16
Utility
Control system for wind turbine having multiple rotors arranged to control support arm orientation
13 Jul 20
The invention is directed to a wind turbine system comprising a first pair of wind turbines mounted to a support structure by a first support arm arrangement, and a second pair of wind turbines mounted to the support structure by a second support arm arrangement.
Torben Ladegaard Baun, Erik Carl Lehnskov Miranda
Filed: 11 Feb 16
Utility
Fault ride through method for load impact minimization
6 Jul 20
Controlling a wind turbine during a grid fault where the grid voltage drops below a nominal grid voltage.
Ciprian Biris, Uffe C. Merrild, Leif Svinth Christensen, Martin Ansbjerg Kjær
Filed: 26 Sep 18
Utility
Multirotor wind turbine
29 Jun 20
A multirotor wind turbine (1) comprising a tower structure (2) and at least one load carrying structure (3, 4), each load carrying structure (3, 4) being arranged for carrying two or more energy generating units (5, 7) comprising a rotor (6, 8).
Peter Bjørn Andersen, Jonas Lerche Schomacker, Anurag Gupta, Henrik Kudsk
Filed: 3 Apr 17
Utility
Wind turbine blade with aerodynamic device attached thereto
29 Jun 20
An aerodynamic device is described for mounting to an outer surface of a wind turbine blade.
Jeremy Hurault, Raphael Sajous
Filed: 21 Nov 16
Utility
Wind turbine blades
29 Jun 20
A shear web for a wind turbine blade is described.
Anton Bech, Steve Wardropper
Filed: 25 Jul 16
Utility
Control of a wind turbine taking noise into account
29 Jun 20
The present invention relates to control of wind turbines where a noise measure is taken into account.
Keld Hammerum, Tobias Gybel Hovgaard, Erik Sloth
Filed: 2 Apr 17
Utility
Method for lifting a component of a multirotor wind turbine
29 Jun 20
The invention relates to a method for lifting a component (1a, 1b) of a multirotor wind turbine (100) from an initial position to an operating position.
Torben Ladegaard Baun, Gunnar K. Storgaard Pedersen, Ivar J. B. K. Jensen
Filed: 26 Apr 17
Utility
Wind power plants and multi-rotor wind turbine systems
29 Jun 20
A wind power plant includes a plurality of wind turbine systems arranged in rows and columns and includes a cable support system with at least one cable.
Torben Ladegaard Baun, Henrik Kudsk, Jesper Lykkegaard Neubauer
Filed: 6 Nov 16
Utility
Control of a wind turbine generator for reduced tonal audibility
29 Jun 20
A method of controlling a wind turbine generator (1) comprising an electrical generator (10) and a power converter (12), the power converter (12) comprising an electrical switch (14a, 14b) that is configured to process electrical power produced by the electrical generator (10), the method comprising: controlling an output from the electrical switch (14a, 14b) using a variable pulse-width modulated control signal, thereby to control characteristics of output power from the power converter (12); acquiring sample data (26) relating to an electronic signal within the wind turbine generator (1), wherein the sample data (26) is used for controlling the wind turbine generator (1); and dynamically adjusting a frequency (30) at which the sample data is acquired to synchronise data acquisition with a carrier frequency (24) of the control signal.
Gert Karmisholt Andersen, Kent Tange, Søren Andersen, Duy Duc Doan, Jens Peter Biltoft, Lars Helle, John Godsk Nielsen
Filed: 10 Aug 17
Utility
Wind turbine blades
22 Jun 20
A pultrusion process for making a strip for an elongate reinforcing structure of a wind turbine blade, the process comprising drawing fibres (42) and resin through a pultrusion die (40) in a process direction to form a strip (102); and applying an infusion-promoting layer (110) to a surface of the strip down-stream from the die in the process direction.
Jonathan Smith
Filed: 22 Oct 14
Utility
Multi-rotor turbine arranged for coordinated rotational speeds
22 Jun 20
A wind turbine system is described comprising a plurality of wind turbine modules, each including a rotor, mounted to a support structure including a tower.
Jacob Deleuran Grunnet, Erik Carl Lehnskov Miranda, Michael Riis Krabbe
Filed: 17 Nov 16
Utility
Control of a wind turbine taking fatigue measure into account
15 Jun 20
The present invention relates to control of wind turbines where a fatigue load measure is taken into account.
Keld Hammerum, Tobias Gybel Hovgaard
Filed: 23 May 16
Utility
Control of a wind turbine during recovery after a grid fault
8 Jun 20
Embodiments of the present invention relate to control of a wind turbine during a recovery period after a grid fault.
Martin Ansbjerg Kjær, Kasper Zinck Ostergaard, Jan Graugaard-Jensen
Filed: 16 Nov 16
Utility
Method for improving large array wind park power performance through active wake manipulation reducing shadow effects
8 Jun 20
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for increasing turbulent mixing in the wake of at least one wind turbine.
Carsten Hein Westergaard
Filed: 5 Oct 17