Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for upgrading multivendor wind turbines
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Application No.: US15015451Application Date: 2016-02-04
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Publication No.: US10012213B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Joseph Lawrence Chacon , William Earl Fish , Noah Pennington , Mark Edward Cardinal
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Main IPC: G05D3/12
- IPC: G05D3/12 ; F03D7/02 ; F03D7/04 ; F03D17/00 ; G05B23/02 ; G05B19/042

Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for controlling and/or upgrading aftermarket multivendor wind turbines. The system includes a turbine controller configured to control operations of the wind turbine, a safety device configured to provide a signal indicative of a health status of the safety device, and a secondary controller inserted between the safety device and the turbine controller. The secondary controller is configured to receive the signal from the safety device over a communication interface. As such, if the signal indicates a normal health status, the secondary controller is configured to send the signal to the turbine controller, i.e. maintain normal operation. Alternatively, if the signal indicates a poor health status, the secondary controller is configured to adjust the signal based at least in part on a signal bias to an adjusted signal and to provide the adjusted signal to the turbine controller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170226987A1 System and Method for Upgrading Multivendor Wind Turbines Public/Granted day:2017-08-10
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