Wind turbine with a speed regulator and a generator regulator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10480488-B2
Application number	US-201615294262-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 14, 2016
Priority date	Oct 16, 2015
Publication date	Nov 19, 2019
Grant date	Nov 19, 2019

Abstract

A wind turbine having a rotor, which has at least one rotor blade adjustable about its longitudinal axis via a pitch control, and a generator, driven by the rotor, having a speed regulator, which takes a control difference in the rotational speed and generates a control variable for the pitch control, and a generator regulator, which takes a power conductance and determines a rotational speed setpoint and a power setpoint, wherein a pilot control is provided that uses an inverse controlled system to determine a control variable for the pitch control, the inverse controlled system determining a power torque (MP) from the rotational speed setpoint and the power setpoint and also an acceleration torque (MB) from the change in the rotational speed setpoint over time and outputting the control variable for the pitch control as an output variable that provides pilot control for the output variable from the speed regulator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wind turbine comprising:
a rotor having at least one rotor blade defining a longitudinal axis;
a pitch control;
said at least one rotor blade being adjustable about said longitudinal axis via said pitch control;
a generator configured to be driven by said rotor;
a speed regulator configured to generate a control variable (dpitFF/dt) for controlling the pitch of said rotor blade from a control difference in rpm;
a ramp function (P_Ramp) and a further downstream rotational speed ramp configured to determine a rotational speed setpoint (nS) and a power setpoint (PS) from a power reference value (PL);
a feedforward controller for determining said control variable (dpitFF/dt) for said pitch control;
said feedforward controller being configured to determine a power torque (M P ) from said rotational speed setpoint (nS) and said power setpoint (PS) and to determine an acceleration torque (M B ) from a time dependent change of said rotational speed setpoint (nS); and,
said feedforward controller being further configured to output said control variable (dpitFF/dt) for said pitch control as an output variable which is added to a pitch speed (dpit_n/dt) and applied to an integrator (PitInt) configured to output an output signal, wherein said output signal of said integrator (PitInt) is a pitch angle to be set on the wind turbine.

2. The wind turbine of claim 1 further comprising:
a drive train; and,
said feedforward controller being configured such that power drawn by said rotor is sufficient at least to provide said power setpoint (PS) and an acceleration of said drive train.

3. The wind turbine of claim 1 , wherein said control variable (dpitFF/dt) for said pitch control corresponds to an adjustment speed for a blade pitch angle.

4. The wind turbine of claim 3 , wherein said control variable (dpitFF/dt) for said pitch control corresponds to an adjustment angle for said blade pitch angle.

5. The wind turbine of claim 1 , wherein a time dependent change rate is determined for a sum of said power torque (M P ) and said acceleration torque (M B ) which is applied to an amplification to determine the control variable (dpitFF/dt) to be outputted for said pitch control.

Assignees

• Nordex Energy Gmbh

Inventors

• Drossel Detlef
• Bode Florian

Classifications

• F03D7/042 Primary

  by means of an electrical or electronic controller · CPC title

• F03D7/045

  with model-based controls · CPC title

• F05B2270/309

  Rate of change of parameters · CPC title

• F03D7/0224 Primary

  Adjusting blade pitch · CPC title

• F03D1/06

  Rotors · CPC title