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Utility
Wind turbine nacelle cooling
8 Nov 22
A wind turbine has a nacelle which houses operative components such as a transformer or converter which in use generate unwanted heat, the nacelle including an external nacelle cover (20) to form the outer nacelle enclosure, and provided with a panel (24) which overlies a bottom cover (22) region forming therewith a conduit for directing external air to one or more of the heat generating operative components for cooling purposes.
Martin Patrick Vcelka, Matthieu Alexandre
Filed: 14 Dec 18
Utility
Control of a wind turbine power generation system for optimising DC link voltage
8 Nov 22
This invention relates to a method of controlling at least one wind turbine of a plurality of wind turbines connected to an electrical grid at a predefined point in the electrical grid.
Torsten Lund, Ciprian Biris, Kent Tange, Duy Duc Doan, Gert Karmisholt Andersen
Filed: 11 Sep 19
Utility
Electrical generators in wind turbines
8 Nov 22
The invention relates to a generator for a wind turbine including a housing of substantially cuboidal form within which is mounted a stator.
Peter Mongeau, Lars Langvardt Krogh, Mustafa Gündüz, Xiaolu Ding, Ulrich Meinekat, Nicole Farell
Filed: 8 Jan 20
Utility
Preassembly system and method for optimal positioning of tower structures
1 Nov 22
The present invention relates to a preassembly system comprising a support arrangement and a plurality of tower structures each having a mean diameter, D, wherein said plurality of tower structures are placed vertically on the support arrangement during preassembly and/or storage, the support arrangement comprising a set of attachments means for each tower structure, said attachment means being configured for positioning said plurality of tower structures with a mutual distance, a, wherein the ratio a/D is below 2.3, such as below 2.2, such as below 2.1, such as below 2.0 in order to reduce loads on the plurality of tower structures due to Vortex shedding while being secured to the preassembly system.
Peter Sigfred Mortensen
Filed: 27 Jun 19
Utility
Assembly for a wind turbine, and method of operating an assembly for a wind turbine
1 Nov 22
An assembly (127) for a wind turbine (100) includes a housing (126) having a first bearing (150) and a second bearing (154).
Anders Haslund Liingaard, Claus Hald Therkildsen
Filed: 21 Aug 17
Utility
Tool chain and method for concentric fixing and exchange of gearbox and generator internal components
1 Nov 22
A tool chain (10) is provided for performing a method of removing internal components such as a bearing cassette (64) from the interior of a generator (12) and/or a gearbox (14) of a wind turbine.
Joris Kofman, Niels Møller Madsen
Filed: 17 Jul 19
Utility
Paired eccentric cam adjuster
1 Nov 22
The present invention relates to an assembly of a first component (1) and a second component (2) of a wind turbine, the assembly comprises, a paired eccentric cam adjuster (10) adapted for a connection of the first component and the second component of a wind turbine, said components (1,2) each having at least one hole (3,4), the adjuster comprising, a first and second eccentric cam adjuster (7,8), both comprising, a tube (101) with an outer surface and an inner bore (103), with a first central longitudinal axis (321) of the outer surface having an offset (320) from a second central longitudinal axis (322) of the inner bore and a flange (102) arranged at one end of the tube, said cam adjusters (7,8) arranged to be inserted into said holes, and a bolt (5) and a nut (6) arranged to be inserted in the inner bores.
Peter Mongeau
Filed: 30 Oct 17
Utility
Wind turbine with a blade carrying structure having aerodynamic properties
25 Oct 22
A wind turbine (1) comprising a tower (2), a nacelle (3) mounted on the tower (2) via a yaw system, a hub (4) mounted rotatably on the nacelle (3), the hub (4) comprising a blade carrying structure (5), and one or more wind turbine blades (6) connected to the blade carrying structure (5) via a hinge (7) is disclosed.
Peter Bjørn Andersen, Thomas S. Bjertrup Nielsen, Mikkel Kiilerich Østerlund
Filed: 13 Sep 19
Utility
Method of retrofitting a wind turbine with an energy generating unit
25 Oct 22
A method of retrofitting a wind turbine having a tower and a first energy generating unit with a second energy generation unit is disclosed.
Thomas Hedegaard Bachmann, Jesper Kofoed Jensen
Filed: 20 Mar 18
Utility
Method and apparatus for manufacturing a wind turbine blade body
18 Oct 22
A method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade body, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mould (40) having a mould surface (43) for forming a first blade body having a first length, the mould having a mould root end and a mould tip end (42); placing a removable insert (50) on the mould surface towards the mould tip end to form a modified mould surface for forming a second blade body having a second length which is less than the first length; and forming the second blade body on the modified mould surface.
Frank Hoelgaard Hahn, Vijayasankar Irissappane
Filed: 22 Nov 16
Utility
Hinged wind turbine blade defining an angle in a flap-wise direction
18 Oct 22
A horizontal axis wind turbine (1) with a wind turbine blade (5) is disclosed, the wind turbine blade (5) comprising a hinge (6) arranged to connect the wind turbine blade (5) to a blade carrying structure (4) of the wind turbine (1), at a non-zero distance from an inner tip (5a) and at a non-zero distance from an outer tip (5b) of the wind turbine blade (5).
Thomas S. Bjertrup Nielsen, Peter Bjørn Andersen, Torben Juul Larsen, Mikkel Kiilerich Østerlund
Filed: 13 Sep 19
Utility
Yaw arrangement for a multirotor wind turbine
11 Oct 22
A multirotor wind turbine (1) comprising a yaw arrangement (6) and a tower (2) is disclosed.
Torben Ladegaard Baun, Jesper Lykkegaard Neubauer, Leif Christoffersen, Per Holten-Møller, Anders Yde Wollesen
Filed: 13 Nov 19
Utility
Wind turbine with a pivoted rotor blades, wire and release mechanism for stopping
11 Oct 22
A wind turbine (1) comprising a tower (2), a nacelle (3) and a hub (7) is disclosed.
Peter Bjørn Andersen, Thomas S. Bjertrup Nielsen, Aksel Petersen, Peng Wang
Filed: 12 Jun 19
Utility
Wind turbine blade manufacture
27 Sep 22
A method of making a prefabricated root section (26) for a wind turbine blade (10) is described.
Edgar Suselbeek, Bo Vermund Heinrich Jensen
Filed: 20 Dec 19
Utility
Method for ramping up power in a power facility
27 Sep 22
The present invention relates to a method for releasing a requested amount of power from a power facility to an associated power grid, the method comprising the steps of providing a release signal as to when the requested amount of power is to be released from the power facility to the associated power grid, ramping up the power generation of the power facility, and releasing the requested amount of power to the associated power grid in accordance with the release signal, wherein at least part of an excess power generated during ramping up is dissipated and/or stored in suitable power handling modules.
Mu Wei, Kouroush Nayebi, Torsten Lund
Filed: 2 Oct 18
Utility
Relating to wind turbine blade manufacture
20 Sep 22
A method of making a wind turbine blade is described.
Jonathan Smith, Andrew Hedges
Filed: 4 Apr 18
Utility
Power management system for wind turbine(s) being connected to a power supply with a limited capacity
20 Sep 22
The invention relates to a power management system for one or more wind turbines where the one or more wind turbines are connected to a power supply with a limited capacity for providing power to a number of power consuming units, such as to an emergency power supply arranged for providing power in a grid loss situation.
Niels Erik Danielsen
Filed: 12 Jan 16
Utility
Power system and method for operating a wind power system with a dispatching algorithm
20 Sep 22
The present invention relates to a power system having a plurality wind turbine generators and a power plant controller arranged to communicate with the plurality of wind turbines generators, where each of the plurality of wind turbine generator being related to a wind turbine controller, the wind turbine controller being arranged to control an active power output in its related wind turbine generator according to an active power set point received from the wind power plant controller; a first subset of wind turbine generators operating at an active power output unrestricted of the active power set point; and a second subset of wind turbine generators operating according to an active power set point; and wherein the wind power plant controller communicates the active power set point, in accordance with the active power output of the first subset of the plurality of wind turbines generators, so as to reduce active power fluctuation of the aggregated active power output of the first and second subset of the plurality of wind turbines generators.
Germán Claudio Tarnowski
Filed: 17 Jun 19
Utility
Alignment tool for aligning bores in structural members
13 Sep 22
An alignment tool (1) for aligning a bore (13) extending through a first structural member (14) with a bore (19) extending through a second structural member (15) is disclosed.
Jesper Hermann Hansen, Jakob Anders Sørensen, Jens Torborg
Filed: 23 Jan 18
Utility
Operating a wind turbine using estimated wind speed while accounting for blade torsion
13 Sep 22
A method for estimating a wind speed at a wind turbine is disclosed, said wind turbine comprising a rotor carrying a set of wind turbine blades, each wind turbine blade having a variable pitch angle.
Martin Atzler, Thomas Scheel, Lars Finn Sloth Larsen
Filed: 20 Nov 15