OVEN ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PREFORM BUILDING ELEMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20240359369A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-31

    申请号:US18688015

    申请日:2022-08-31

    发明人: Mogens Nielsen

    IPC分类号: B29C35/04 B29D99/00 B29L31/08

    摘要: An oven arrangement, adapted to heat preform building material arranged on a plurality of transportable, plate-like carriers for producing preform building elements used for building a rotor blade of a wind turbine is provided, including at least two oven units, wherein each oven unit has a housing adapted to receive one or more carriers with at least one closable opening for loading and unloading the carriers, wherein the housings of the oven units are stackable in such manner that the openings are arranged above each other on one side of the stack, wherein each oven unit includes at least one heating device and/or wherein each oven unit is connectable to a mutual heat supplier.

    Wind turbine and retrofitting system and method for at least one wind turbine

    公开(公告)号:US12110869B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-08

    申请号:US18014014

    申请日:2021-07-02

    IPC分类号: F03D80/10

    CPC分类号: F03D80/10 F05B2230/80

    摘要: A wind turbine includes a marking light system including a marking light for aerial traffic, a data source, including one light sensor, and a marking light controller for controlling the at least one marking light according to data of the data source, in particular sensor data of the light sensor, a wind turbine controller, a power line for the at least one marking light and/or one control line connecting the marking light controller to the wind turbine controller, wherein the wind turbine further includes a switching arrangement including at least one switching unit in the power line or the control line, wherein the switching unit receives a detection signal from an air traffic detection system and to turn the at least one marking light on or off when the detection signal indicates air traffic or no air traffic, respectively, in an area around the wind turbine.

    Blade for a wind turbine and wind turbine

    公开(公告)号:US12104577B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-01

    申请号:US16858790

    申请日:2020-04-27

    IPC分类号: F03D80/30 F03D1/06

    摘要: Provided is a blade for a wind turbine including at least one blade component, wherein at least one section of the blade component facing the tip of the blade is carbon fiber reinforced, wherein the blade further includes a lightning protection arrangement with a discharging conductor extending along the blade to discharge an electric current caused by a lightning striking into the blade, wherein the lightning protection arrangement includes at least one, electrically conductive, elongated and flat lightning receptor which is electrically connected with the discharging conductor, wherein the lightning receptor is arranged at or near the outer surface of the blade and located between the at least one blade component section and the blade tip and extends at least partially from a trailing edge towards a leading edge of the blade.

    Estimation of rotor operational characteristics for a wind turbine

    公开(公告)号:US12088226B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US17631782

    申请日:2020-07-22

    摘要: Provided is a method of estimation of rotor operational characteristics, in particular rotor speed, rotor azimuth and rotation direction, of a rotating rotor of a wind turbine, the method including: measuring pulse rising edge time and pulse falling edge time of pulses generated by each of multiple proximity sensors originating from multiple detection targets arranged on the rotor; estimating values of parameters associated with the sensors and/or targets, in particular parameters associated with the positioning and/or detection range of at least one sensor and/or the parameters associated with the positioning and/or size of at least one target, based on the measured pulse rising edge times and pulse falling edge times; estimating rotor operational characteristics, in particular a rotor speed and/or a rotor azimuth and/or a rotation direction, based on the measured pulse rising and/or falling edge times and/or the estimated values of parameters associated with the sensors and/or targets.

    WIND TURBINE
    9.
    发明公开
    WIND TURBINE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240263620A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-08

    申请号:US18561628

    申请日:2022-05-10

    IPC分类号: F03D80/80 H02J3/38 H02J3/46

    摘要: A wind turbine includes a generator driven by an aerodynamic rotor; a first power converter arranged in a nacelle supported by an electrically grounded tower; a second power converter arranged at the base of the tower; a DC transmission link extending through the wind turbine tower and connected between the first power converter and the second power converter; wherein a first current path between the power converters through the DC transmission link; and a second current path between the power converters through electrically grounded metal of the tower. A method of connecting a DC transmission link in the tower of a wind turbine is also provided.