Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and device for controlling floating body wind turbine power generating apparatus, and floating body wind turbine power generating apparatus
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Application No.: US14655335Application Date: 2012-12-27
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Publication No.: US10024303B2Publication Date: 2018-07-17
- Inventor: Tsuyoshi Wakasa , Satoshi Iwasaki , Yukio Yamashita , Yoshiyuki Hayashi
- Applicant: MHI VESTAS OFFSHORE WIND A/S
- Applicant Address: DK Aarhus N.
- Assignee: MHI VESTAS OFFSHORE WIND A/S
- Current Assignee: MHI VESTAS OFFSHORE WIND A/S
- Current Assignee Address: DK Aarhus N.
- Agency: Kanesaka Berner and Partners LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/083832 WO 20121227
- International Announcement: WO2014/102956 WO 20140703
- Main IPC: F03D7/02
- IPC: F03D7/02 ; F03D7/04 ; B63B35/44

Abstract:
A method of controlling a floating-body wind turbine power generating apparatus including a wind turbine generator disposed on a floating body includes a pitch-angle increasing step of increasing a pitch angle of a blade of the wind turbine generator when the wind turbine generator is stopped, so that an aerodynamic braking force is applied to a rotor of the wind turbine generator. In the pitch-angle increasing step, a first change rate of the pitch angle of the blade in a first period during which the wind turbine generator is in an inclining motion toward an upwind side from a vertical direction due to sway of the floating body, is smaller than a second change rate of the pitch angle of the blade in a second period during which the wind turbine generator is in an inclining motion toward a downwind side from the vertical direction due to the sway of the floating body.
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