Air-cooled wind power generator system and fluid cooling device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10359028-B2
Application number	US-201715564599-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2017
Priority date	Mar 2, 2016
Publication date	Jul 23, 2019
Grant date	Jul 23, 2019

Abstract

A wind power generator system includes: a generator including a generator cavity; a separation device configured to perform multi-phase flow separation on an upwind direction flow and including an air inlet configured to introduce the upwind direction flow and an air outlet in communication with the generator cavity; and an exhaust fan in communication with the generator cavity and configured to exhaust hot air flow in the generator cavity. A fluid transfer device includes: a power equipment including an overheated cavity; a separation device configured to perform multi-phase flow separation on an upwind direction flow and including an air inlet and an air outlet; and an exhaust fan. With the wind power generator system and the fluid transfer device, the overheated cavity can be cooled by using air in the natural environment and the overheated cavity is prevented from being damaged.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An air-cooled wind power generator system, comprising:
a generator comprising a generator cavity;
a separation device, which is arranged at one end of the generator cavity and in communication with the generator cavity, wherein the separation device comprises a first separator and a second separator, the first separator comprises a first air inlet configured to receive an upwind direction flow of air and a first air outlet, and the second separator comprises a second air inlet and a second air outlet, the first air outlet is in communication with the second air inlet,
wherein the first separator comprises an outer cylinder with one end of the outer cylinder closed and a hollow inner container nested in the outer cylinder, the inner container having two ends, both ends of the inner container are open, an air flow passage is formed between an inner circumferential wall of the outer cylinder and an outer circumferential wall of the inner container; and
one end of the air flow passage extends towards the closed end of the outer cylinder and is in communication with a third air inlet of the inner container, an other end of the air flow passage forms a fourth air inlet configured to receive the upwind direction flow of air, and a third air outlet of the inner container is in communication with the second air inlet of the second separator,
at least one output pipeline arranged at another end of the generator cavity and in communication with the generator cavity, wherein an exhaust fan is arranged in the at least output pipeline, and the exhaust fan is configured to exhaust hot air flow heated in the generator cavity.

2. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 1 , wherein a heater is provided in a communication pipeline via which the second air outlet of the second separator is in communication with the generator cavity.

3. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 2 , wherein the communication pipeline comprises at least two branch pipelines, each of which is in communication with the generator cavity, and at least one of the branch pipelines is provided with the heater.

4. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 3 , wherein the generator comprises an inner stator support, an inner stator iron core, a permanent magnetic pole and an outer rotor magnet yoke, which are nested sequentially from inside to outside;
the generator cavity comprises an inner cavity, a middle cavity and an outer cavity arranged sequentially from inside to outside,
wherein a hollow cavity of the inner stator support forms the inner cavity and middle cavity, an air gap between the inner stator iron core and the permanent magnetic pole forms the outer cavity,
wherein the inner cavity is hollow in an axial direction of the generator and in communication with the outer cavity; and
the branch pipelines are in communication with the inner cavity or the outer cavity, and the middle cavity is in communication with the exhaust fan.

5. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 4 , wherein at least two of the at least two branch pipelines are in communication with the inner cavity and the outer cavity respectively, the heater is arranged in one of the at least two of the at least two branch pipelines that is in communication with the inner cavity or the outer cavity, and air flows transferred by the branch pipelines converge in the outer cavity and flow into the middle cavity.

6. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 5 , wherein the second air outlet of the second separator is provided with three branch pipelines, two of the three branch pipelines are in communication with the outer cavity, the remaining one of the three branch pipelines is in communication with the inner cavity and the heater is arranged in the rest one branch pipeline.

7. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 1 , further comprising a separator heating branch pipeline via which the generator cavity is in communication with the second separator, wherein the separator heating branch pipeline is configured to transfer the hot air flow in the generator cavity to the second separator to heat a cylinder of the second separator and air to be separated in the cylinder.

8. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 1 , wherein an inner wall of the outer cylinder is a concave-convex surface, and a spiral flow guide vane cascade is provided in the air flow passage.

9. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 1 , wherein the air outlet of the inner container is connected with a separation segment, and a caliber of the separation segment decreases progressively in a direction from the first separator to the second separator.

10. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 9 , wherein the air outlet of the inner container is provided with a flaring segment-configured to connect the separation segment; and
an expansion cavity configured to accommodate a separated object is formed at a connecting position of the flaring segment and the separation segment.

11. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 10 , wherein a first soot blower configured to blow the separated object into the expansion cavity is provided in an upwind direction of the expansion cavity.

12. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 9 , wherein the separation segment is an inward-concave arc-shaped revolved body; and/or the separation segment is provided with a thermal insulation interlayer or a heating interlayer.

13. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 1 , wherein a bottom of the outer cylinder is concaved downwards and is provided with a deposition box in communication with the air flow passage, and the deposition box is provided with a heater.

14. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 1 , wherein the open end of the outer cylinder is provided with a flow guide surface, the flow guide surface comprises an outer convex arc surface and an inner concave arc surface sequentially arranged and connected in the upwind direction flow of air, and the upwind direction flow of air inflows along a tangent line direction of the inner concave arc surface.

15. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 7 , wherein the second separator comprises an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder, the outer cylinder defines a hollow cavity, an air inlet of the hollow cavity is in communication with the air outlet of the first separator, an air outlet of the hollow cavity is in communication with an air inlet of the inner cylinder, and an air outlet of the inner cylinder forms the second air outlet of the second separator.

16. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 15 , wherein the second separator further comprises a collection box in communication with the hollow cavity and configured to collect the separated object; and
the collection box is provided with an exhaust port configured to exhaust the separated object, and the exhaust port is blocked by an air lock.

17. The air-cooled wind power generator system according to claim 1 , further comprising a blade indirectly connected to a rotor of the generator and a blade heating branch pipeline, via which an inner cavity of the blade and the motor inner cavity are in communication with each other, wherein
the blade heating branch pipeline is configured to transfer the hot air flow in the motor inner cavity to the inner cavity of the blad

Assignees

• Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ma Shengjun
• Ma Wanshun

Classifications

• Y02E10/725

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F05B2260/96

  Preventing, counteracting or reducing vibration or noise · CPC title

• F03D9/25 Primary

  the apparatus being an electrical generator (F03D9/22 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02K9/26 Primary

  Structural association of machines with devices for cleaning or drying cooling medium, e.g. with filters · CPC title

• H02K7/1838

  Generators mounted in a nacelle or similar structure of a horizontal axis wind turbine · CPC title