Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of damping wind turbine tower oscillations
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Application No.: US15032918Application Date: 2014-10-20
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Publication No.: US09683556B2Publication Date: 2017-06-20
- Inventor: Borge Ollgaard , Soren P. Jensen
- Applicant: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Applicant Address: DK Aarhus N.
- Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Current Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Current Assignee Address: DK Aarhus N.
- Agency: Wood Herron & Evans LLP
- Priority: DK201370627 20131028
- International Application: PCT/DK2014/050340 WO 20141020
- International Announcement: WO2015/062608 WO 20150507
- Main IPC: E04B1/98
- IPC: E04B1/98 ; F03D7/02 ; F16F7/10 ; F03D80/80 ; F03D80/00 ; F03D13/10

Abstract:
A method of damping oscillations in a wind turbine tower comprises connecting a bag of material or liquid to a tower component at a first lateral distance away from a tower wall. The bag is also suspended from the tower component by a first vertical distance. The height of the tower component is known such that the first vertical distance corresponds to a particular height within the tower. The first lateral distance, first vertical distance, and mass of the bag are such that the bag is configured to hit said tower wall during oscillations in said wind turbine tower, in order to damp said oscillations in said wind turbine tower.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160252079A1 METHOD OF DAMPING WIND TURBINE TOWER OSCILLATIONS Public/Granted day:2016-09-01
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