Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control system for wind turbines for reducing disturbances in an electrical grid
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Application No.: US15518992Application Date: 2015-10-08
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Publication No.: US10364798B2Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Martin Ansbjerg Kjær , Fabio Caponetti , Ian Couchman , Jesper Sandberg Thomsen , Thomas Krüger , Jorge Martinez Garcia
- Applicant: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
- Applicant Address: DK Aarhus N
- Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
- Current Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
- Current Assignee Address: DK Aarhus N
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Priority: DK201470633 20141013
- International Application: PCT/DK2015/050304 WO 20151008
- International Announcement: WO2016/058610 WO 20160421
- Main IPC: F03D7/02
- IPC: F03D7/02 ; F03D7/04 ; H02K7/18 ; H02P9/04

Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for wind turbine generators for reducing electrical disturbances in the form of power variations which are caused by damping controllers arranged the compensate structural oscillations by inducing shaft torque variations. The shaft torque variations are generated by imposing corresponding variations in a generator set-point, e.g. a power or torque set-point. Variations in the generator set-point cause undesired variations in the power injected to the grid by one or more wind turbine generators. According to an embodiment of the invention the electrical disturbances may be reduced by limiting a damping controller's control action. The amount of limitation or restriction of the damping controller may be determined on basis on electrical disturbance information determined from power measured e.g. at a location on the grid.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170226988A1 A CONTROL SYSTEM FOR WIND TURBINES FOR REDUCING DISTURBANCES IN AN ELECTRICAL GRID Public/Granted day:2017-08-10
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