Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Heating a wind turbine facility
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Application No.: US16055320Application Date: 2018-08-06
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Publication No.: US10364802B2Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Matthias Schult , Stephan Ebner , Christian Schlegel , Dominik Flum
- Applicant: ABB Technology Oy
- Applicant Address: CH Baden
- Assignee: ABB Schweiz
- Current Assignee: ABB Schweiz
- Current Assignee Address: CH Baden
- Agency: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
- Agent J. Bruce Schelkopf
- Priority: EP16154509 20160205
- Main IPC: F03D7/02
- IPC: F03D7/02 ; F03D7/04 ; F03D80/60

Abstract:
A method for heating a wind turbine facility includes: charging a DC link of an electrical converter connected with a wind turbine of the wind turbine facility; heating air inside the wind turbine facility with heat generated by a voltage limiting unit interconnected with the DC link, which includes a resistor adapted for dissipating electrical energy into heat for reducing a voltage in the DC link, when the voltage is above a threshold voltage; wherein the voltage limiting unit is controlled, such that the voltage limiting unit generates heat according to settings defined in a controller of the voltage limiting unit. The heating settings are changed based upon commands from a user interface. Furthermore, the DC link is charged by a grid side converter of the wind turbine facility with power from an electrical grid.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180340519A1 HEATING A WIND TURBINE FACILITY Public/Granted day:2018-11-29
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