Rotor speed control of a wind turbine

    公开(公告)号:US11578695B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-14

    申请号:US16855159

    申请日:2020-04-22

    摘要: Techniques for controlling rotor speed of a wind turbine. One technique includes defining a system model describing resonance dynamics of a wind turbine component, such as a wind turbine tower, where the system model has a nonlinear input term, e.g. a periodic forcing term. A transform is applied to the system model to obtain a transformed model for response oscillation amplitude of the wind turbine component, where the transformed model has a linear input term. A wind turbine model describing dynamics of the wind turbine is then defined, and includes the transformed model. A model-based control algorithm, e.g. model predictive control, is applied using the wind turbine model to determine at least one control output, e.g. generator torque, and the control output is used to control rotor speed of the wind turbine.

    Method and system for controlling a wind turbine to manage edgewise blade vibrations

    公开(公告)号:US10738762B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-11

    申请号:US16091374

    申请日:2017-04-07

    IPC分类号: F03D7/02 F03D17/00 F03D7/04

    摘要: 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. The method comprises: determining a whirling mode frequency for the wind turbine; measuring an acceleration signal that is indicative of the movement of the nacelle of the wind turbine; determining a frequency spectrum of the measured acceleration signal in the proximity of the determined whirling mode frequency; determining a characteristic value that is representative of the energy content of the measured acceleration signal having the determined frequency spectrum; and performing at least one control action if the characteristic value exceeds a predetermined threshold.

    Fast reacting control system for wind turbine

    公开(公告)号:US10465659B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-05

    申请号:US15759150

    申请日:2016-09-27

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to a control system for a wind turbine comprising more controllers and where at least some of the controllers operate at different sample frequencies. The control system comprises at least two controller units, a first controller (10) for determining an operational value (OV) of a sub-system and a second controller (20) for the sub-system. The second controller operates at a higher sample frequency than the first controller. It is disclosed that a faster reaction to a received demand value (V1), received for controlling the sub-system, can be obtained by setting the operational value (OV) of the sub-system as the sum of an internal operational value (V5) and a difference value (V4).

    Control of a wind turbine based on operational trajectory validation

    公开(公告)号:US10337497B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-02

    申请号:US15504170

    申请日:2015-08-14

    IPC分类号: F03D7/02 F03D7/04

    摘要: The present invention relates to control of wind turbines based on predicted operational trajectories. A control system for a wind turbine is described where a main controller calculating one or more predicted operational trajectories and a safety controller validates at least one of the one or more predicted operational trajectories. The control system controls the wind turbine with the predicted control trajectory if the validation is valid, and controls the wind turbine with a safe-mode control trajectory if the validation is invalid. In an embodiment, the main controller is implemented as a receding horizon controller, e.g. in the form of a model predictive controller (MPC).

    Individual pitch control for wind turbines

    公开(公告)号:US11519386B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-06

    申请号:US16647267

    申请日:2018-09-11

    IPC分类号: F03D7/04 F03D7/02

    摘要: A method of controlling pitch of individual blades in a wind turbine is described, together with a suitable controller. Wind speed is determined as a function of azimuthal angle. Wind speed is then predicted for individual blades over a prediction horizon using this determination of wind speed as a function of azimuthal angle. The predicted wind speed for each individual blade is used in a performance function, which is optimized to control individual blade pitches.

    Model predictive control in local systems

    公开(公告)号:US11293404B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-05

    申请号:US16770869

    申请日:2018-12-03

    IPC分类号: F03D7/04 G05B13/04

    摘要: A main computing system maintains and optimizes a predictive control model for an energy system, wherein the main computing system receives state information for the energy system, optimizes the predictive control model, and generates control rules for control of the energy system. The one or more local computing systems, each have a local memory for storing control rules for controlling the associated local state. The main computing system receives local state information and updates control rules, wherein the updated control rules comprise a subset of the control rules generated by the main computing system selected to be appropriate to the local state information received at the main computing system.

    Control of a wind turbine taking fatigue measure into account

    公开(公告)号:US10683844B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-16

    申请号:US15574456

    申请日:2016-05-24

    摘要: The present invention relates to control of wind turbines where a fatigue load measure is taken into account. Control of a wind turbine is described where a control trajectory is calculated based on a fatigue load measure, the fatigue load measure being determined from a predicted operational trajectory. In embodiments the predicted operational trajectories are calculated by using a model predictive control (MPC) routine, and the fatigue load measure includes a rainflow count algorithm.

    Control system for wind turbines for reducing disturbances in an electrical grid

    公开(公告)号:US11300101B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-12

    申请号:US16440451

    申请日:2019-06-28

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method for controlling a power plant for reducing spectral disturbances in an electrical grid being operative connected to the power plant, the power plant comprising a plant controller, at least one wind turbine and at least one auxiliary energy source, wherein the at least one wind turbine comprises a rotor adapted to drive a power generator via a shaft, wherein the generator is connectable with the electrical grid, and at least one damping controller configured to compensate structural oscillations of the wind turbine by controlling a torque on the shaft, wherein the at least one damping controller is capable of setting a limit of a control action on the shaft, the method comprising the steps of determining disturbance information for the power plant in the form of an electrical disturbance at a point of measurement electrically connected to the power plant, determining set-points for the at least one auxiliary energy source based on the determined disturbance information, and assigning the set-points to the at least one auxiliary energy source in order to counteract at least part of the electrical disturbance at the point of measurement using at least part of an available amount of energy from the at least one auxiliary energy source.