14551 results about "Wind power generation" patented technology

The present invention includes a system and method for generating, controlling and storing dispatchable renewable energy. The system may include one or more wind power generation facilities and one or more solar power generation facilities to generate power that can be stored by one or more storage facilities. The power can be supplied to a power grid at a level determined by actual or predicted weather conditions, based on variable power demands. The power generated by the renewable energy sources may be combined with power generated by conventional power generation facilities to provide power in a dispatchable manner.

The invention discloses a mobile power generation system. A power generation device is in rapid butt joint with an air inlet assembly and an exhaust pipeline which are independently transported through telescopic joints, so that rapid installation and butt joint of the power generation system in a fracturing operation field are realized. The air inlet assembly and the exhaust pipeline are separately provided with transportation tools, and the adjustability is more flexible when the air inlet assembly and the exhaust pipeline are in butt joint. The position of the power generation device is fixed, the position of the air inlet assembly is moved, so that the air inlet assembly is in butt joint with an air inlet chamber of the power generation device; and the position of the exhaust pipelineis moved, so that the exhaust pipeline is in butt joint with an exhaust collector of the power generation device.

A wind power generation system capable of outputting generated power at high efficiency with a smoothed output power includes a wind power generator and a laser aerovane mounted on the wind power generator or located near the wind power generator. Direction and velocity of wind blowing toward the wind power generator are observed using the laser aerovane, and a yaw angle and / or a pitch angle of the wind power generator is predicted and controlled based on the observation results. Thus, high-efficiency control of the wind power generation system, including the wind power generator, is achieved. An output-smoothing device connected to the wind power generator predicts and controls electric power input / output of the output-smoothing device based on a predicted power output of the wind power generator and smoothes the power output of the wind power generation system.

A device, a system, and a method for preventing power-producing wind turbine generators from tripping due to the detection of a low-voltage condition on a power grid are disclosed. The disclosed device includes a resistor bank that absorbs real power and a control system that maintains the collector bus voltage above a threshold voltage level during the duration of low-voltage condition on the power grid. Collector bus voltage is maintained using gating signals that include phase delay angles to adjust the opening / closing of the switching devices.

Wind power plant with a wind turbine with a turbine shaft with which a generator shaft, which can be an extension of the turbine shaft, is connected to the rotor (12) of an electric generator. The rotor is radially surrounded by a stator, the turbine shaft is journalled in two bearing housings with bearings arranged on a base at the top of a tower, the base is pivotable around a vertical axis, and a motor is provided to effect the pivoting. The generator shaft is integrated with or rigidly connected to a flexing turbine shaft, the stator and rotor are carried by the generator shaft, to allow the generator to follow the flexing movement of the turbine shaft and the stator is locked against turning by a non-rotatable coupling which transfers substantially no bending moment or axial force acting against the flexing of the turbine shaft due to the bending moment acting on the turbine shaft from its hub, the bearings being provided to allow flexing of the turbine shaft.

When a wind velocity sensor detects a wind velocity higher than a predetermined level, a timer device starts a waiting timer function during an operation timer period shorter than the waiting timer period. After the waiting timer period is over, the waiting timer function is switched to an operation timer function, and a switching relay switches a generator to a motor only during an operation timer period. Then, a driving circuit performs a start assisting rotation. After the operation timer period is over, the waiting timer period re-starts. This process is repeated. When during this period, the number of rotations of a rotor monitored by a rotation number measuring device, based on the output voltage Vm of a three-phase conduction coil exceeds a predetermined number of rotations, the charging of a battery by a three-phase generator is started.

The invention relates to the technical field of running state monitoring of wind generating sets, in particular to a system and a method for evaluating the running state of a wind generating set. The evaluating system mainly comprises a monitoring module, a quantifying module, a weight confirmation module and an evaluating module; data monitored in real time by a wind generating set control system are utilized as the input of the evaluating system of the real-time running state; then the data are quantified to obtain a real time deterioration degree of each evaluating index; finally, when the deterioration degree of a single item evaluating index and a permissible value have greater deviation, the serious evaluating result is directly given, otherwise, the weight module and the evaluating module are used for calculating an evaluating result of the running state of the generating set, and the evaluating result is used as the output of the system. The invention provides scientific basis for state maintenance of the wind generating set, and provides technological supports for ensuring high-efficient, reliable and safe running of the wind generating set, evaluating and forecasting the operational reliability of an electric power system of a windy electric field, and has important engineering application value.

A hydroelectric power plant uses a plurality of windmills connected to compressed air generators to produce pressurized air. Pressurized air is used to drive water through a turbine to produce electrical power. The water is recycled and the power plant includes reserve pressurized air tanks to allow the plant to continue to operate when the wind levels are not sufficient to produce high pressure air. The power plant is designed to be operated on a continuous basis based on wind power. When the wind subsides and the reserve capacity has been exhausted, electricity can be drawn from the local utility supplier. When excess power is generated by the power plant, electricity from the power plant can be added to the grid of the local electricity supplier.

The invention discloses a vibration monitoring-based wind generator set automatic fault diagnosis method. The method comprises the following steps: an acceleration sensor collects original vibration signals, a pre-communication subsystem stores and uploads data, and a central monitoring server receives data and stores the data in a database. The method also comprises the step of establishing a fault characteristic frequency library in the database which is used as the basis of fault diagnosis. The method of the invention can automatically realize the fault early warning and fault diagnosis of the key parts of the wind generator set; and the fault characteristic frequency pool can be continuously updated to realize the self-learning function of the method, thus improving the fault diagnosis function continuously.

A wind power generation system wherein procedure for controlling the blade pitch is changed in accordance with the rate of decrease in the amplitude of the grid voltage, and when over current occurs in the grid-side power converter, the grid-side power converter is brought into the gate-blocked condition whereas the generator-side power converter continues its operation.

The invention relates to a method of coordinating and stabilizing the delivery of wind generated power, such as to a power grid, so as to avoid sudden surges and spikes, despite wind speed fluctuations and oscillations. The method preferably uses a plurality of windmill stations, including a number of immediate use stations, energy storage stations, and hybrid stations, wherein energy can be used directly by the power grid, and stored for later use when demand is high or wind availability is low. The method contemplates forming an energy delivery schedule, to coordinate the use of direct energy and energy from storage, based on daily wind speed forecasts, which help to predict the resulting wind power availability levels for the upcoming day. The schedule preferably sets a reduced number of constant power output periods during the day, during which time energy delivery levels remain substantially constant, despite fluctuations and oscillations in wind speed and wind power availability levels.

Wind operated electrical generating apparatus includes a housing designed to be attached to the front of a vehicle and formed to extend substantially the length of the front of the vehicle for intercepting air flow produced by movement of the vehicle. The housing is further formed with an opening designed to direct intercepted air flow into a channel. A turbine is rotatably mounted within the housing in the channel for rotation of the turbine with air flow in the channel and an electrical generator is attached to the turbine for rotation with the turbine. The housing can be attached to the front bumper of a vehicle or be attached in lieu of the front bumper.

Disclosed is an intelligent power grid management system. In a certain area, an area-level minisize intelligent power grid system is established, which uses the common power supply of regenerative resources such as photovoltaic generation and wind power generation and the traditional power grid as the main power supply, the micro-turbine generation as the supplementary power supply, and the storage battery energy storage as the adjusting device; and comprehensively connects the power supply system with the distribution system of the area, the power utilization system of each building user. And then the intelligent power grid system including a generation and energy storage side management system as well as a power utilization side management system is comprehensively managed by utilizing the network communication and the intelligent control as the nerve centre, thus effectively lifting the utilization rate of regenerative resources in the area, raising the reliability of the power supply network of the area, improving the intellectualization degree of the whole power grid of the area, effectively saving energy and improving the power utilization satisfaction of users.

A control system for a wind power plant that includes a damage module and a control module. The damage module compares existing stress conditions on one or more component parts of the wind power plant to current energy generating costs. The control module alters electric power generated by the wind power plant based upon the comparison.

A wind power generating apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of vertically stacked wind acceleration modules that are shaped to accelerate wind passing between them. At least one of the modules includes a rotor assembly, a continuously variable transmission (CVT) mechanically coupled to the rotor assembly, and an electrical generator mechanically coupled to the CVT. The electrical generator is capable of converting mechanical energy transferred by the CVT from the rotor assembly into electrical energy. A sensor may be mechanically coupled to the rotor assembly or the electrical generator and electrically coupled to a controller. The controller may control the CVT according to a signal received from the sensor such that the electrical generator operates within a predetermined range of rotational velocities.

Disclosed is a vehicle using wind force. An object of the present invention is to provide a wind force power system driven by wind is provided within a hood panel of the vehicle, whereby the vehicle continuously charge a battery with electricity while being stopped or driving. The vehicle using wind force includes a wind force power system, the Power system comprising a ventilator that is rotated by the wind flowing along the roof panel in the rear of the vehicle, a shaft connected to the ventilator, a rotary gear connected to the shaft, a follower gear engaged with the rotary gear, and an electric generator for generating electricity as the follower gear rotates, wherein the electric generator of the wind force power system is electrically connected to the battery and the battery is electrically connected to the driving motor.

A wind power generation evaluation system includes: a laser aerovane that measures, with a laser, the direction and velocity of wind at a distance from a wind power generator' connected to an electric power system, to predict the direction and velocity of wind at the wind power generator; a second aerovane that measures the wind velocity and direction at the wind power generator; a wind power generation output calculation unit that integrates difference between power outputs calculated based on measurements by the laser aerovane and by the second aerovane, while referring to a windmill performance curve indicating output power characteristics of the wind power generator with respect to wind velocity, to produce a difference between the amounts of generated power; and an additional value calculation unit that calculates additional value of an influence on the environment based on the difference between the amounts of generated power produced by the calculation unit.

Wind driven apparatus for an aerial power generation system include driven elements and controls. The driven elements are configured and shaped to provide maximum force from both lift and drag during the downwind phase of operation and minimum force during the upwind phase. The driven elements have a sail portion with a leading edge and a trailing edge. The controls change the driven elements between high force configurations for downwind operation and low force configurations for upwind operation, adjust the pitch and azimuth angles of the driven elements, and control the camber.

A wind power generation system having a group of wind turbine generators includes a superior controller having a generation power recording memory to record a sum of a generation power of the group of wind turbine generators and a charge and discharge power of a power storage system, a charge and discharge power command computing device for computing a charge and discharge power command for the power storage system in a second period by making use of information of the output power in a first period computed in the output power computing unit and information of a detection value at the present of the generation power recording memory, and a charge and discharge power control device.

A tethered airborne wind-driven power generation device providing, in various embodiments, a main tether and plurality of auxiliary tethers, feedback controls for continuously adjusting pitch, roll and yaw, and a Vee-shaped configuration for disposing rotors along the frame of the device. The auxiliary tethers avoid slack and resultant transient instability, and the Vee-shaped rotor disposition takes advantage of upwash or any other aerodynamic benefit from the rotors adjacent to it, to improve efficiency.

Because the efficiency of the thermal energy storage technology is inherently restricted, its beneficial use is limited to very particular economic boundary conditions, i.e. a large difference between the value of electricity going into the unit and the value of electricity coming out of the unit. With the reduction in wind power equipment prices and the cost of fossil fuels and / or their combustion products this is occasionally the case for wind power. Wind is a free fuel and the value of wind power when there is too little load demand is essentially zero, and the value of wind power when there is demand is considerable indeed. Under these circumstances, a combination of electrothermal energy storage and combustion of (fossil) fuels as an auxiliary heat source provides for a cost efficient system for storing energy and an economical way of generating electricity.

Methods are disclosed for nondestructive testing and measuring the structural health of prestressed concrete structures, such as slabs, columns, girders, bridges, towers, elevated storage tanks, silos, cooling towers, wind power generation towers, liquefied gas storage tanks, nuclear power containment buildings, and the like. Measurements are made as the structure undergoes tensioning and detensioning operations. By measuring actual movements of cardinal points on the structure, in an absolute three-dimensional coordinate system, and comparing the measurements to a model—as tension on a tendon is changed—a margin of safety is assured. High accuracy measurements are made by electronic distance measurement (EDM) instruments over hundreds of meters, which yield coordinates of cardinal points with an uncertainty of the order of one part per million. The methods are proposed as possible alternatives to prior failures of post-tensioned concrete, including the Las Lomas Bridge, the Kapiolani Interchange On-Ramp, Turkey Point Unit 3 Nuclear Power Plant, and Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Power Plant. An extensive review of the most closely related prior arts is included.

Reduction in power output or rotor speed of a wind turbine above a defined limit value, the reduction not being implemented based on the measured wind speed, but on an input value which on one hand is easily detected physically and by control technology and on the other hand is a good indicator of mechanical stresses on the wind turbine. The invention uses the rotor-blade angle as the input value in a manner that starting at the limit value, the reduction in power output or in rotor speed is adjusted as a function of the rotor-blade angle.

The invention provides an ultra-short term wind power station generated power forecasting system, which belongs to the technical field of automatic scheduling of wind power plants. The system comprises a real-time wind measurement data server, a numerical weather prediction server, a wind power station real-time operation server, an ultra-short term forecasting processing server and data acquiring equipment, wherein the numerical weather prediction server is used for acquiring weather prediction data of a near-earth layer at the position of a wind power station; the real-time wind measurementdata server is used for acquiring wind speed data, wind direction data, temperature data, air pressure data and humidity data at the position of a wind measurement tower; the wind power station real-time operation data server is used for acquiring the total generated power data of the wind power station; and the ultra-short term forecasting processing server is used for forecasting the total generated power data of the wind power station at the next moment. The system solves the technical problems that future generated power variation tendency cannot be tracked and multi-step forecasting accuracy is relatively low in the prior art.

The supercapacitor-based grid fault ride-through system provides a dynamic model of a wind generation system including a Voltage Source Converter (VSC), which functions as a Static Compensator (STATCOM). The power control capability of the STATCOM is extended by incorporating energy stored in a supercapacitor. The system implements a vector control technique based on the decoupling of real and reactive power. Simulation results show that a fixed speed induction generator is capable of withstanding a significant grid fault when aided by the supercapacitor-based grid fault ride-through system. Moreover, the induction generator regains its pre-fault status immediately after the fault is cleared.

The invention proposes a system simulation method for connecting large-scale wind power into a power grid in a centralization way and an effective equivalent mode of a high-capacity wind power station. Based on the synchronization operating characteristics of the large-scale wind power, the invention makes the large-scale wind power synchronization simulation analysis principle under the comprehensive consideration of the influences of the wind resource characteristics of wind power generation, the dynamic response characteristics of a wind driven generator and the differentiation characteristics of different types and different control modes of various wind driven generators and the like; therefore, the invention constructs the complete analytical framework and flows of the system simulation assessment with the large-scale wind power being connected into the power grid. The simulation analysis result shows that the system simulation method can comprehensively, objectively and accurately assess the impact and the safety bottleneck to the stable running of a power system caused by wind power synchronization after the base synchronization of the large-scale wind power due to the affection to the dynamic response characteristics of the power system by the differentiation of the types and the response characteristics of various wind driven generators and the wind resource characteristics. Therefore, the method is beneficial for the scheduling and operating staff to accurately grasp the affection to the system characteristics by the connection of the large-scale wind power and the law of the connection of the large-scale wind power, and has significant meaning for instructing and making the corresponding precautionary and improved measure and ensuring the normal running of the system after the connection of wind power.

The invention relates to a control system of a flexible wind power DC convertor on the sea, which pertains to the technical field of power transmission in wind power generation and comprises the doubly closed loop control structure of a sending end rectifier on the sea and the doubly closed loop control structure of a receiving end inverter on the coast; the doubly closed loop control structure of the sending end rectifier on the sea is used for controlling the active power of a flexible DC transmission system and the voltage stability of a wind power AC system; the doubly closed loop control structure of the receiving end inverter on the coast is used for controlling the constant voltage of the DC side of a receiving end convertor and the dynamic regulation of the reactive power of the main network accessing end of the receiving end convertor; two control structures are mutually independent and no data communication exists between the two control structures. The control system can fast and correctly control the active power of wind power transmission on the sea as well as promote the stability of the wind power AC system on the sea and the transmission efficiency and the power quality of the whole DC transmission system.