10603 results about "Wind power generator" patented technology

The present invention relates to wind generators installed off-shore, in particular at sea, to support structures forming a part of such wind generators, and to methods of making and installing such wind generators. The technical field of the invention is that of making, transporting, and installing wind generators for producing electricity, more particularly off-shore, and in large numbers, so as to form wind "farms". The wind generator of the invention comprises a wind turbine and a deployable telescopic pylon or support supporting the turbine, and a gravity base supporting the pylon or support.

A stored energy system is provided for delivering AC electrical power to a load. This system includes a single housing containing within a battery bank for storing DC power, and an inverter for receiving either DC power or AC power and converting DC power to AC power. The stored electrical system includes five circuit breakers mounted on the outside surface of the housing. Twist lock plugs are connected to each of the circuit breakers for removably connecting input power sources and output loads with the circuit breakers. A first circuit breaker is connected to a solar power source. A second circuit breaker is connected to a wind generator. A third circuit breaker is connected to a generator for generating AC power. A fourth circuit breaker is connected to a utility supplying AC power. A fifth circuit breaker is connected to the outside AC power load.

A public transportation system includes control by highly distributed communications, ultra-light transit vehicles suspended from single or dual rails and powered by electricity. The electric power supplied independently and supplemented by wind generators and solar panels. The transit vehicles, are suitable to transport from one to four persons. The system includes a plurality interconnected rails with main conduits and station conduits to provide non-stop transportation from one station to another station.

A method for limiting loads in a wind turbine by using measured loads or wind speed to increase the minimum pitch angle for extended periods. The minimum pitch angle will be allowed to relax down to the default when load excursions diminish. The method will allow turbines to capture more energy by operating in higher wind speeds and / or utilizing larger rotors without additional loss of fatigue life.

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 wind turbine is provided that minimizes the size of the drive train and nacelle while maintaining the power electronics and transformer at the top of the tower. The turbine includes a direct drive generator having an integrated disk brake positioned radially inside the stator while minimizing the potential for contamination. The turbine further includes a means for mounting a transformer below the nacelle within the tower.

A wind-capturing electrical generator device comprising a plurality of generators is driven by wind created by traffic passing in close proximity at high speeds. The device preferably uses horizontally or vertically mounted Savonius-type or helical-turbine-type rotors attached to electrical generators in order to capture the wind and produce electrical energy. A plurality of electrical generator devices may be mounted in a configuration such that they are in close proximity to vehicular passageways (e.g., highway overpasses, tunnels, or train rails). The wind created by the traffic is used to rotate the vanes and their attached generators in order to produce electrical energy.

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.

A blade segment of a rotor blade assembly formed from two or more blade segments is disclosed. The blade segment may generally include a body shell and a shear web extending longitudinally within the body shell. The shear web may be disposed between opposed spar caps. The blade segment may also include an attachment member and a spar member. The attachment member may be at least partially disposed within the body shell. The spar member may generally extend outwardly from the spar caps along an inner surface of the body shell and may be configured to support the attachment member within the body shell.

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.

The invention discloses an online state monitoring and fault diagnosis system of a wind generator set. The system comprises four parts of a monitoring device, an upper computer, a central monitoring center and a remote diagnosis center, wherein the monitoring device is used for realizing signal acquisition and processing and communication with the upper computer; the upper computer is used for carrying out fine analysis on sample data and displaying various graph spectrums and fault analysis diagnosis and the like; the central monitoring center can monitor the state of fans in each wind fieldin a browsing manner; and the remote diagnosis center is used for periodically acquiring fan data of the wind field, periodically analyzing the state of the fans and carrying out fault analysis and location when alarming information sent by a certain fan is received.

A pre-stressed segmented concrete tower for wind power generators is described, and a method for its fabrication, wherein in a pyramidal structure is formed by prefabricated segments, the structure comprising three rounded walls formed with circular segments, and three flat walls, formed with flat segments between the circular walls. One standard curved mold is used for the circular walls, and the flat walls are fabricated horizontally, over templates.

Real and reactive power control for wind turbine generator systems. The technique described herein provides the potential to utilize the total capacity of a wind turbine generator system (e.g., a wind farm) to provide dynamic VAR (reactive power support). The VAR support provided by individual wind turbine generators in a system can be dynamically varied to suit application parameters.

A pre-stressed segmented concrete tower for wind power generators is described, and a method for its fabrication, wherein in a pyramidal structure is formed by prefabricated segments, the structure comprising three rounded walls formed with semi-circular segments, and three flat walls, formed with flat segments between the semi-circular walls. One standard curved mold is used for the semi-circular walls, and the flat walls are fabricated horizontally, over templates.

The invention relates to a composite material for a wind power generator blade. The composite material comprises the following components in parts by weight: 40-75 parts of thermoplastic resin component, 25-60 parts of reinforced fiber component and 0-5 parts of additive. Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages of meeting high strength, high modulus, ageing resistance, and the like required by a wind power generator blade.

A rotor blade assembly and a method for reducing the noise of a rotor blade for a wind turbine are disclosed. The rotor blade has surfaces defining a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge, and a trailing edge extending between a tip and a root. The rotor blade assembly further includes a noise reducer configured on a surface of the rotor blade, the noise reducer including a plurality of noise reduction features. Each of the plurality of noise reduction features includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface includes a first portion mounted to one of the pressure side or the suction side and a second portion configured to interact with wind flowing past the other of the pressure side or the suction side. The second surface interrupts an aerodynamic contour of the one of the pressure side or the suction side.

A system for the generation of electrical power using an improved 600-watt to 900-watt wind turbine system. The system comprises a wind driven generator utilizing an array of uni-directional carbon fiber turbine blades, an air-ducting nose cone, and a supporting tower structure. Additionally, a method of blade fabrication utilizing expanding foam, to achieve improved blade edge strength, is disclosed. The support tower utilizes a compressive coupler that permits standard fence pipe to be joined without welding or drilling.

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.

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a turbine to generate mechanical energy from kinetic energy, a generator coupled to the turbine to receive the mechanical energy and to output multiple isolated supply powers, and multiple power stages each coupled to the generator. Each of the power stages may receive at least one of the isolated supply powers.

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.

The invention relates to a multifunctional automatic climbing device, particularly to an automatic climbing device which is suitable for a variable diameter fan tower barrel and can carry various working equipment. The multifunctional automatic climbing device is composed of a guide rail, an upper clamp, a lower clamp, a connecting platform and a power hydraulic cylinder. The lower clamp is fixedly connected to the bottom of the guide rail; the upper clamp is slidingly mounted on the upper part of the guide rail and can be vertically moved along the guide rail by effect of the power hydraulic cylinder; the connecting platform for connecting other working equipment is mounted on the top of the guide rail; the upper and lower clamps have two-layer structures; each layer is equipped with four fingers; and the upper clamp is installed with a control box and a hydraulic box. The multifunctional automatic climbing device can be connected with other working equipment to realize repairing and detection of a wind power generator, for example, the multifunctional automatic climbing device is connected with a lifting device to finish lifting and repairing of parts in a cabin and is connected with an annular platform to realize repairing and maintenance of outer surfaces of the tower barrel and blades. The multifunctional automatic climbing device has the characteristics of no height and region limitation, high automation level, ground remote control, and the like.

A wind power recovery device has a tower, a rotor arranged on the tower and including a plurality of blades rotatable under the action of wind, the rotor also having an axis for transmitting the rotation of the rotor to another apparatus, a wind channeling body provided with a series of walls which form channelings with a section which is progressively reduced from an entry side of the wind channeling body to an exit side of the channeling body toward the rotor to affect tangentially the blades of the rotor at a speed higher than at the entry side of the body, the wind channeling body having a side face, and a blind protecting the side face of the channeling body.

Disclosed are a model prediction control method and a model prediction control system for all working conditions of a wind generating set. The system comprises an MPC (model prediction control) device, a feedback information measurer, a wind wheel, a driving chain, a tower, a generating unit, a variable propeller driver and a converter. The feedback information measurer is used for detecting status variables of the wind wheel, the driving chain, the tower and the generating unit and transmitting detecting results to the MPC device, the MPC device is used for computing targets of the blade pitch angle and the generator torque, and the variable propeller driver and the converter are used for adjusting the blade pitch angle and the wind generator torque. The method is used for computing control increment by means of a variable propeller control prediction model and a torque control prediction model, takes the status variables including driving chain torsional displacement, driving chain torsional speed, blade plane external first-order flap displacement, blade plane external first-order flap speed, tower front-back first-order swing displacement, tower front-back first-order swing speed, mechanical loads of the unit and the like, and two prediction models can be automatically switched in different working conditions, so that the wind generating set can be operated in all working conditions.

A rotor blade assembly for a wind turbine is disclosed. The rotor blade assembly includes a rotor blade having surfaces defining a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge, and a trailing edge extending between a tip and a root. The rotor blade assembly further includes a noise reducer configured on a surface of the rotor blade. The noise reducer includes a plurality of noise reduction features and a plurality of auxiliary noise reduction features. Each of the plurality of auxiliary noise reduction features is configured on one of the plurality of noise reduction features.

The present invention provides a wind-turbine rotor-blade hoisting apparatus that enables attachment and removal of wind-turbine rotor blades without using a plurality of heavy machines and that enables attachment and removal of wind-turbine rotor blades on a site having a complex land shape with little flat land, a method for attaching a wind-turbine rotor blade, and a method for constructing a wind power generator. The present invention is characterized in that it includes a sheave (14) that guides a hoisting wire (17) from a rotor head (4), to which a wind-turbine rotor blade (6) is to be attached, toward the wind-turbine rotor blade (6) and that is arranged so as to be movable in a direction along the rotation axis of the rotor head (4); a retaining portion (15) that retains an attaching end of the wind-turbine rotor blade (6) such that a line connecting the center of gravity of the wind-turbine rotor blade (6) and a connecting portion, to which the hoisting wire (17) is connected, crosses the longitudinal axis of the wind-turbine rotor blade (6); and a winch (12) that is disposed on the ground and that draws the hoisting wire (17) to wind up or let out the retaining portion (15).

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.

Improvements to wind farms and wind generators for harnessing wind energy or generating electricity from wind. Secondary wind turbines are provided at particular locations within a wind farm to generate additional electricity, in some embodiments, using a common electrical power collection system. Enclosures or venturis may surround wind turbines to facilitate mounting close to the ground. Venturis may accelerate wind speed through the turbine and may have a particular shape, may be made of particular materials arranged in particular ways, or both. In different embodiments, wind turbines may be axial-flow horizontal-axis turbines, or may be Savonius turbines, as examples. And in some embodiments, wind turbines may be combined with other power production equipment, such as solar power equipment, for instance.

The structure of the system includes three parts: the control part, the detection part and the drive part. The control part consists of three parts: the main controller i.e. the operation controller,the distance change control and the speed change controller. The detection part includes the wind wheel rotor, the stator of double fed generator, the variable frequency power supply of speed drop excitation and the invention power source of pulse-width modulation etc. assembled sensors. The drive part is composed of the servomotors with different functions. The sensed signals are output from thedetection part. The control signals output from the interlinkage drive module controls harmonious operation. The invention provides the features of simple structure, stable and reliable running and flexible control.