- Patent Title: Method for reducing vibrations in rotor blades of a wind turbine
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Application No.: US16702652Application Date: 2019-12-04
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Publication No.: US11608812B2Publication Date: 2023-03-21
- Inventor: Pedro Arroyo Beltri , Thomas Picard , Marc Canal Vila , Ricardo Lázaro Bosch , Pedro Palomares Rentero
- Applicant: General Electric Renovables España, S.L.
- Applicant Address: ES Barcelona
- Assignee: General Electric Renovables España, S.L.
- Current Assignee: General Electric Renovables España, S.L.
- Current Assignee Address: ES Barcelona
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Priority: EP18382891 20181204
- Main IPC: F03D7/02
- IPC: F03D7/02 ; G05B13/00 ; G01M1/00

Abstract:
Methods (200) for reducing vibrations in one or more rotor blades (120) of a wind turbine (160), when the wind turbine is in standstill conditions are provided. The method comprises measuring (201) one or more deformation parameters indicative of deformation of one or more blades (120), determining (202), at a dedicated controller (190) for an auxiliary drive system (20, 107), a vibration of one or more of the blades (120) based on the deformation parameters, wherein the dedicated controller (190) for the auxiliary drive system is separate from the wind turbine controller (180), and generating (203), at the dedicated controller (190), an output signal to operate the auxiliary drive system to reduce the vibration. Also disclosed are wind turbines (160) which comprise a dedicated controller (190) configured to determine a vibration and generating an output signal to reduce the vibration, when the wind turbine is in standstill conditions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200173418A1 Method for Reducing Vibrations in Rotor Blades of a Wind Turbine Public/Granted day:2020-06-04
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