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Utility
Apparatuses for wind turbine blade railroad transportation and related systems and methods
11 Jul 23
A tip bolster (32) for supporting a wind turbine blade (40) on a railcar (14) includes a clamp (360) including first and second clamp arms (364, 366) having first and second jaws (384, 386), respectively, and supporting a pliable saddle (394) extending therebetween, the pliable saddle (394) being configured to support a portion of the blade (40) interposed between the first and second clamp arms (364, 366) and to conform to an exterior surface thereof.
Kurt Jensen, Henrik Timm Sørensen
Filed: 3 Sep 20
Utility
Wind turbine control using constraint scheduling
4 Jul 23
The invention provides a method for controlling a wind turbine, including predicting behaviour of one or more wind turbine components such as a wind turbine tower over a prediction horizon using a wind turbine model that describes dynamics of the one or more wind turbine components or states.
Fabio Caponetti, Tobias Gybel Hovgaard, Christian Jeppesen, Silvia Estelles Martinez
Filed: 5 Jan 21
Utility
Wind turbine control system comprising improved upsampling technique
30 May 23
A wind turbine control unit includes an upsampling module that receives a first control signal that includes a current control sample value and a predicted control trajectory.
Tobias Gybel Hovgaard, Keld Hammerum, Kasper Zinck
Filed: 3 Jun 21
Utility
Floating wind turbine generator installation
16 May 23
A method of installing a wind turbine generator onto a floating foundation.
Alf Olsen
Filed: 2 Sep 19
Utility
Reinforcing structures for wind turbine blades
9 May 23
A wind turbine blade including an elongate reinforcing structure, the reinforcing structure comprising a plurality of strips of fibre-reinforced polymer arranged into a stack structure, and at least one adjacent pair of the plurality of strips including an infusion promoting layer, wherein the infusion promoting layer is a fabric comprising a plurality of twisted yarns.
Chris Cieslak, Luke Spandley
Filed: 29 Jul 15
Utility
Relating to wind turbine blades
9 May 23
Improvements relating to wind turbine blades A wind turbine blade is described that comprises a main blade and one or more separate edge modules attached to the main blade module.
Toby Collard, Nathan A. Brilliant, Chris Sutton, Lasse Lykkegaard
Filed: 5 Jul 19
Utility
Wind turbine power plant with power saving control method
25 Apr 23
Methods and apparatus for reducing peak power consumption of a grid connected power plant having a plurality of wind turbines.
Mu Wei, Vinu Vijayan, Eric German, Brian Dial-Lapcewich
Filed: 16 Aug 21
Utility
Wind turbine blades
18 Apr 23
A reinforcing structure for a wind turbine blade is in the form of an elongate stack of layers of pultruded fibrous composite strips supported within a U-shaped channel.
Mark Hancock, Frank Hoelgaard Hahn, Chris Payne
Filed: 31 May 22
Utility
Apparatuses for wind turbine blade railroad transportation and related systems and methods
18 Apr 23
A tip bolster (32) for supporting a wind turbine blade (40) on a railcar (14) includes a clamp (360) including first and second clamp arms (364, 366) having first and second jaws (384, 386), respectively, and being configured to be selectively movable relative to each other in a clamping direction for applying and releasing a clamping force on the blade (40) interposed therebetween, via the first and second jaws (384, 386), wherein the first and second clamp arms (364, 366) are configured to be urged relatively toward each other in response to a decrease in the clamping force.
Kurt Jensen, Henrik Timm Sørensen
Filed: 3 Sep 20
Utility
Wind turbine nacelle structure and a method of assembling a wind turbine nacelle structure
18 Apr 23
A nacelle of a wind turbine generator comprising: a base frame (10) that is separate from and which supports a main bearing housing (12), in use, the base frame (10) being configured to connect with a lower portion of the main bearing housing (12); and a nacelle structure (8) that is separate from and which is connected to the base frame (10) at a first connection, wherein that nacelle structure (8) extends away from the base frame (10) and defines at least in part an interior nacelle volume; characterised in that the nacelle structure (8) is connected to the main bearing housing (12) by way of a second connection at a point arranged above a plane of a rotor axis of the main bearing housing (12).
Joël Saraiva Nunes, Morten Hedegaard Petersen, Thomas Astrup
Filed: 19 Sep 19
Utility
Method for damping harmonics
18 Apr 23
Harmonics of a power output of a power plant at a point of common coupling between the power plant and a utility grid, wherein the power plant comprises a plurality of energy production units.
Mu Wei, Dan Wu
Filed: 20 Nov 18
Utility
Hybrid power plant and a method for controlling a hybrid power plant
11 Apr 23
The invention relates to a hybrid power plant for producing power to the electrical grid, the hybrid power plant comprising a plurality of energy assets; a first renewable power generating unit, such as wind turbine generators, and an energy storage unit, preferably a battery energy storage system.
Mads Rajczyk Skjelmose, Henrik Møller
Filed: 28 Nov 19
Utility
Installation of cables and other components in a wind turbine tower
11 Apr 23
A new method for installing one or more electric cables (60) in a wind turbine tower section (100) is provided.
Martin Werner Nielsen, Børge Øllgaard
Filed: 26 Nov 20
Utility
Wind turbine blade and wind turbine power generating apparatus
4 Apr 23
A wind turbine blade includes: a metal receptor including a blade tip of the wind turbine blade; and a blade body portion connected to the metal receptor so as to be positioned on a blade-root side of the metal receptor, the blade body portion having a hollow structure and forming an airfoil shape in a blade tip region of the wind turbine blade with the metal receptor in a joint region to the metal receptor.
Kenji Sato, Masayuki Hiraishi
Filed: 26 Apr 17
Utility
Methods and systems for power control in a non-exporting mode of operation
21 Mar 23
Aspects of the present invention relate to controlling a renewable energy power plant comprising a plurality of wind turbine generators (WTG)s and an energy storage system (ESS).
Karthikeya Balladi Raghuchandra, Chris Damgaard
Filed: 4 Aug 22
Utility
Wind turbine with reduced DC-voltage reserve
21 Mar 23
The invention relates to a method for operating a wind turbine which comprises a power generator, a generator side converter, a grid side converter, a DC link electrically connected to an output of the generator side converter and an input of the grid side converter.
Ciprian Biris, Kent Tange, Duy Duc Doan, Torsten Lund, Gert Karmisholt Andersen
Filed: 6 Dec 18
Utility
Heli-hoist platform for wind turbine
21 Mar 23
A heli-hoist platform for a wind turbine includes: a deck plate accessible by a worker from a helicopter; a barrier provided along the periphery of the deck plate; and a pair of support brackets extending along a longitudinal direction of the heli-hoist platform at both ends in a width direction of the deck plate.
Kazufumi Takayanagi, Kasuya Sho, Lars Laursen Møller
Filed: 12 Dec 19
Utility
Assembly for rotating a suspended load
14 Mar 23
The present invention relates to an assembly for rotating a suspended load around a substantially vertical axis, the assembly comprising an inner rim configured to have a fixed relationship with the suspended load to be rotated, an outer rim engaging the inner rim in a manner so that the inner and outer rims are configured to perform rotational movements relative to each other during rotation of the suspended load, and a drive unit for performing the relative rotational movement between the inner and outer rims.
Jesper Fyhn Friis, Anders Olsen, Troels Vahle, Axel Peter Madsen
Filed: 18 Dec 17
Utility
Tower vibration damper
14 Mar 23
The present invention relates to a tower damper adapted to be mounted in a wind turbine tower, the tower damper comprising a pendulum structure adapted to be suspended in the wind turbine tower; a plurality of springs arranged to dampen movements of the pendulum structure; a suspension arrangement for suspending the pendulum structure; and a chamber holding a damping liquid into which damping liquid the pendulum structure is at least partly immersed.
Peter Sigfred Mortensen, Jes Grøn Andersen, Miroslava Vastlová
Filed: 26 Sep 17
Utility
Method of erecting a wind turbine
14 Mar 23
A method of erecting a wind turbine on a wind turbine site, the wind turbine comprising a turbine tower and a nacelle.
Rasmus Sanderhoff Johansen, Søren Bøgelund Madsen, Jes Grøn Andersen, Jakob Anders Sørensen
Filed: 27 Apr 22