Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for monitoring and assessing power performance changes of a wind turbine
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Application No.: US15771842Application Date: 2016-11-10
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Publication No.: US10794366B2Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Carsten Krogh Nielsen , Sven Jesper Knudsen
- 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: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@4d36aef6
- International Application: PCT/DK2016/050361 WO 20161110
- International Announcement: WO2017/088878 WO 20170601
- Main IPC: F03D17/00
- IPC: F03D17/00 ; F03D7/04 ; F03D9/25

Abstract:
A method for monitoring and assessing power performance changes of one or more wind turbines of a wind farm, the method comprising the steps of: for each wind turbine to be monitored, defining a group of reference wind turbines, the group of reference wind turbines comprising two or more wind turbines, operating the wind turbines of the wind farm, while obtaining locally measured wind speeds at each of the wind turbines, during a training period, obtaining the power performance data in relation to the locally measured wind speed for each of the monitored wind turbines, during the training period, for each of the monitored wind turbines, generating a wind speed transfer function establishing a relationship between the locally measured wind speeds at each of the reference wind turbines and the locally measured wind speed at the monitored wind turbine, operating the wind turbines of the wind farm, while obtaining locally measured wind speeds, at least at the reference wind turbines during one or more test periods following the training period, estimate the wind speed for the monitored wind turbines during the test periods based on the measured wind speeds at the reference wind turbines, and the transfer function generated during the training period for the monitored wind turbine, obtain, power performance data for each of the monitored wind turbines in relation to the estimated wind speed, asses power performance by comparing the power performance data obtained during the test periods with the power performance data obtained during the training period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190063406A1 A METHOD FOR MONITORING AND ASSESSING POWER PERFORMANCE CHANGES OF A WIND TURBINE Public/Granted day:2019-02-28
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