公开(公告)号：US07932620B2

公开(公告)日：2011-04-26

申请号：US12113217

申请日：2008-05-01

申请人： William R. Plant, Jr.

发明人： William R. Plant, Jr.

IPC分类号： F03B9/00 ,  H02P9/04

CPC分类号： F03D9/25 ,  F03D9/00 ,  F03D9/17 ,  F03D9/28 ,  Y02E10/725 ,  Y02P80/158

摘要： A windmill apparatus includes tower, a tower-mounted hydraulic pump driven by windmill blades, and hydraulic lines connected to a ground storage tank and to a number of separate generator units. Each generator unit includes a hydraulic pump and an electrical generator. In operation, upon startup, as the wind propels the propeller-driven pump the hydraulic fluid circulates freely until a pre-set pressure is achieved, upon which a diverter valve diverts all the fluid pressure to the first generator unit. When the first generator unit is powered sufficiently to achieve a stable output voltage, a subsequent one of the remaining generator units is powered up until its output voltage is stabilized, with this process continuing as long as there is a surplus of hydraulic power available to power up additional units to take full advantage of all of the available wind power.

摘要翻译： 风车设备包括塔架，由风车叶片驱动的塔式液压泵，以及连接到地面储罐和多个单独发电机单元的液压管路。 每个发电机单元包括液压泵和发电机。 在操作中，在启动时，当风推动螺旋桨驱动的泵时，液压流体自由地循环，直到达到预定的压力，分流阀将所有的流体压力转移到第一发电机单元。 当第一发电机单元被充分供电以达到稳定的输出电压时，剩余的发电机单元中随后的一个通电，直到其输出电压稳定为止，只要存在剩余的可用于电力的液压功率，该过程将继续进行 增加额外的单位，以充分利用所有可用的风力发电。