METHOD FOR HEATING A GENERATOR OF A WIND POWER INSTALLATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220224265A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-14

    申请号:US17572441

    申请日:2022-01-10

    Abstract: Provided is a method for heating a generator of a wind power installation during or before starting the installation. The generator is a permanent magnet synchronous generator configured to generate a stator current comprising at least one three-phase current. The installation is configured as a gearless installation and is connected to an electrical supply network for feeding electrical power into the network. The installation comprises a converter, connected to the generator, to control the generator to feed electrical power into the network. The method comprises rotating the rotor with a low rotational speed below a first limit and operating the converter such that the generator generates the stator current and electrical power, and no electrical power is fed into the electrical supply network. At least one portion of the stator current substantially circulates through the generator and the converter to consume power in generator windings to heat the generator.

    Rotor arresting device for a wind turbine and method

    公开(公告)号:US11480152B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-25

    申请号:US16468640

    申请日:2017-11-27

    Abstract: A rotor arresting device, a wind turbine and a method for arresting and/or rotating a rotor. The rotor arresting device comprises a rotor, a rotational assembly, and a static assembly fixed in position, comprising a toothed disk, which can be arranged on the rotational assembly, having a plurality of arresting recesses arranged along a circumference, wherein two adjacent arresting recesses form a tooth, a first arresting module having at least one first arresting element, a second arresting module having at least one second arresting element, wherein the first and the second arresting module can be arranged on the static assembly, wherein the first and the second arresting element are arranged and designed to engage in arresting recesses of the toothed disk, wherein the spacing of the first arresting element from the second arresting element in the circumferential direction of the toothed disk is a non-integral multiple of a tooth tip spacing of the toothed disk.

    Method for cooling a gearless wind turbine

    公开(公告)号:US10961986B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-30

    申请号:US16604522

    申请日:2018-04-05

    Abstract: A method for controlling a gearless wind turbine, wherein the wind turbine comprises a generator having a stator and a rotor and an air gap therebetween which has an air gap thickness, wherein the generator is designed as an internal rotor, with the stator as an outer part and the rotor as an inner part, or the generator is designed as an external rotor, with the rotor as an outer part and the stator as an inner part, said method comprising the following steps: detecting a temperature of the outer part as an outer part temperature, detecting a temperature of the inner part as an inner part temperature, calculating a temperature difference as the difference between the outer part temperature and the inner part temperature, and controlling the generator according to the temperature difference such that a reduction in the air gap thickness by thermal expansion of the generator is counteracted.

    CONTROL UNIT AND METHOD FOR A CONVERTER

    公开(公告)号:US20230093800A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17953835

    申请日:2022-09-27

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a control unit for a converter, preferably of a power converter of a wind power installation, in particular of an active rectifier of a power converter of a wind power installation, comprising: a primary control module for specifying a setpoint value for the converter; a first secondary control module for controlling the converter, in particular a first converter module of the converter, which second secondary control module is configured to produce a first control signal according to the setpoint value; a second secondary control module for controlling the converter, in particular a second converter module of the converter, which converter module is connected in parallel with the first converter module, which second secondary control module is configured to produce a second control signal according to the first control signal.

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