Controlling wind turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10415546-B2
Application number	US-201815981760-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2018
Priority date	Feb 28, 2013
Publication date	Sep 17, 2019
Grant date	Sep 17, 2019

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling a wind turbine. The method includes: dividing a plurality of wind turbines into at least one group based on a similarity in status information of the plurality of wind turbines; in response to having detected a fault in a first wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, searching a group to which the first wind turbine belongs for a second wind turbine matching status information of the first wind turbine; and controlling the first wind turbine based on parameters from the second wind turbine.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to perform a method comprising:
receiving first status information regarding each of a plurality of wind turbines at a first time, the first status information for each of the plurality of wind turbines including status components, the status components including at least wind information and yaw information;
for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, determining a first difference between each status component of the first status information of that particular wind turbine and each status component of the first status information of every other wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines;
for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, comparing the first differences between at least the wind information and the yaw information of that particular wind turbine and at least the wind information and the yaw information of every other wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines to at least one status component threshold;
dividing the plurality of wind turbines into two or more groups based on the first differences and the first comparisons with the at least one status component threshold;
in response to one of a plurality of trigger conditions:
receiving second status information regarding each of the plurality of wind turbines at a second time, the second status information for each of the plurality of wind turbines including status components for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines;
for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, determining a second difference between each status component of the second status information of that particular wind turbine and each status component of the second status information of every other wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines;
for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, comparing the second differences between at least the wind information and the yaw information of that particular wind turbine and at least the wind information and the yaw information of every other wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines to at least one status component threshold; and
dividing the plurality of wind turbines into two or more groups based on the second differences and the second comparison with the at least one status component threshold;

in response to having detected a fault in a first wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, identifying a group of the two or more groups to which the first wind turbine belongs and identifying a second wind turbine within the group of the two or more groups; and
controlling operation of the first wind turbine based on at least one parameter from the second wind turbine.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein identifying the group of the two or more groups to which the first wind turbine belongs comprises, prior to dividing the plurality of wind turbines into two or more groups based on the second differences, identifying the group of the two or more groups to which the first wind turbine belongs.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein identifying the group of the two or more groups to which the first wind turbine belongs comprises, after dividing the plurality of wind turbines into two or more groups based on the second differences, identifying the group of the two or more groups to which the first wind turbine belongs.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second time corresponds to a time of the response to one of the plurality of trigger conditions.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the trigger conditions include a predetermined time interval having passed or a change in meteorological factors affecting at least some of the plurality of wind turbines.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the change in meteorological factors is greater than a trigger threshold.

7. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the predetermined time interval is greater than a time threshold.

8. The apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the meteorological factors including wind speed and wind direction.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controlling operation of the first wind turbine based on the at least one parameter from the second wind turbine comprises:
using second measured values from a second sensor of the second wind turbine as first measured values of a first sensor of the first wind turbine for the controlling the operation of the first wind turbine.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein using the second measured values from the second sensor of the second wind turbine as the first measured values of the first sensor of the first wind turbine for the controlling the first wind turbine comprises:
obtaining the at least one parameter comprising wind information and a yaw angle from the second sensor of the second wind turbine; and adjusting at least one other parameter of the first wind turbine based on the yaw angle and the wind information of the second wind turbine, wherein the at least one other parameter is selected from a set comprising of: a head orientation and a blade angle.

11. A computer implemented method, the method comprising:
receiving, by a system operatively coupled to at least one processor, first status information regarding each of a plurality of wind turbines at a first time, the first status information for each of the plurality of wind turbines including status components, the status components including at least wind information and yaw information;
for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, determining, by the system, a first difference between each status component of the first status information of that particular wind turbine and each status component of the first status information of every other wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines;
for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, comparing, by the system, the first differences between at least the wind information and the yaw information of that particular wind turbine and at least the wind information and the yaw information of every other wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines to at least one status component threshold;
dividing, by the system, the plurality of wind turbines into two or more groups based on the first differences and the first comparisons with the at least one status component threshold;
in response to one of a plurality of trigger conditions:
receiving, by the system, second status information regarding each of the plurality of wind turbines at a second time, the second status information for each of the plurality of wind turbines including status components for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines;
for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, determining, by the system, a second difference between each status component of the second status information of that particular wind turbine and each status component of the second status information of every other wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines;
for each wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines, comparing, by the system, the second differences between at least the wind information and the yaw information of that particular wind turbine and at least the wind information and the yaw information of every other wind turbine of the plurality of wind turbines to at least one status component threshold; and
dividing, by the system, the plurality of wind turbines into two or more groups based on the second differences and the second comparison with the at least one status component threshold; and

in response to having detected a fault in a first wind turbine of the

Assignees

• Utopus Insights Inc

Inventors

• Bai Xin Xin
• Dong Jin
• Li Li
• Liu Liang
• Rui Xiao Guang
• Wang hai feng
• Yin Wen Jun

Classifications

• F05B2260/845

  Redundancy · CPC title

• F03D7/048 Primary

  controlling wind farms · CPC title

• Y02E10/723

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02E10/72

  Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction · CPC title