公开(公告)号：IN153214B

公开(公告)日：1984-06-16

申请号：IN226CA1981

申请日：1981-03-02

Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP

Inventor： BARNES PHILIP EARL ,  MAYO MILIARD GIRARD ,  SHERMAN ROBERT

IPC: F03D7/04 ,  F03D7/02 ,  F03D7/00

Abstract: A pitch control system for a multibladed variable pitch wind turbine. Each of the turbine blades is pivotally driven about the longitudinal axis thereof independently of the other blades by at least a pair of hydraulic actuators. The actuators are supplied with pressurized hydraulic fluid from a first source thereof under conditions of normal pitch change adjustment. Under conditions wherein feathering of the blades is required, the actuators are supplied with hydraulic fluid from second sources thereof such that one of the actuators associated with each of the blades is supplied with fluid from one second source and a second actuator is provided with fluid from a redundant second source whereby blade feathering may be effected despite a malfunction of one of the redundant sources or one of the actuators. In one of the two preferred embodiments disclosed, the first and second fluid sources are maintained in mutual communication whereby fluid from the second sources thereof may supplement fluid from the first source under conditions of normal blade pitch adjustment.