Wind turbine system and interconnection of wind turbine systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12510059-B2
Application number	US-202218726528-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 20, 2022
Priority date	Jan 3, 2022
Publication date	Dec 30, 2025
Grant date	Dec 30, 2025

Abstract

A wind turbine system contains a generator, a tower, and an electrical energy transmission system which is arranged in the tower and which contains a bus bar and three mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules. Each electrical energy transmission module has a current path that connects the bus bar to a cable termination of the electrical energy transmission module. At least two electrical energy transmission modules each contain a circuit breaker by which the current path of the electrical energy transmission module can be interrupted. The cable termination of one of the electrical energy transmission modules containing a circuit breaker is connected to the generator.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A wind turbine system, comprising:
a generator; a tower; and an electrical energy transmission system disposed in said tower and having a busbar and three mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules, wherein:
each mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules having a cable termination and a current path connecting said busbar to said cable termination;
at least two of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules each respectively has a power circuit-breaker, by means of said power circuit breaker said current path of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module is interrupted;
said cable termination of one of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules having said power-circuit breaker is connected to said generator; and
each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules contains a first housing part, in which said first housing part a section of said busbar is routed, wherein said first housing part of each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules are mutually connected.

2 . The wind turbine system according to claim 1 , wherein each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules contains a cable terminal box which is disposed below said first housing part thereof, in which said cable termination of each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module is disposed.

3 . The wind turbine system according to claim 2 , wherein, in said cable terminal box of each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules, said cable termination of which is connected to said generator, a current transformer unit is disposed, said current transformer unit is configured to capture a current strength of an electric current flowing in said current path of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module and to activate said power circuit-breaker of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module for an interruption of said current path, in an event that the current strength exceeds a predefinable threshold value.

4 . The wind turbine system according to claim 2 , wherein each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules contains a second housing part, which is disposed with an offset in relation to said first housing part and in relation to said cable terminal box, and in which the current path of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module is routed between said first housing part and said cable terminal box.

5 . The wind turbine system according to claim 4 , wherein said first housing part and said second housing part of each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules are configured with a gas-tight design.

6 . The wind turbine system according to claim 4 , wherein said power circuit-breaker of each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules which comprises said power circuit-breaker is disposed in said second housing part of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module.

7 . The wind turbine system according to claim 1 , wherein each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules which contains said power circuit-breaker has a combined disconnector and grounding switch which is disposed in said first housing part thereof, by means of said combined disconnector and grounding switch said current path of said electrical energy transmission module is interruptible, and a section of said current path which is connected to said power circuit-breaker can be grounded.

8 . The wind turbine system according to claim 1 , wherein each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules containing said power circuit-breaker has a power circuit-breaker drive for said power circuit-breaker, said power circuit-breaker drive is disposed above said first housing part of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module.

9 . The wind turbine system according to claim 1 , wherein one of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules contains no said power circuit-breaker.

10 . The wind turbine system according to claim 9 , wherein said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module which contains no said power circuit-breaker contains a combined disconnector and grounding switch, which is disposed in said first housing part thereof, by means of said combined disconnector and grounding switch said current path of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module is interruptible and a section of said current path can be grounded.

11 . The wind turbine system according to claim 1 , wherein each of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules contains said power circuit-breaker, by means of said power circuit-breaker said current path of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module is interruptible.

12 . The wind turbine system according to claim 1 , further comprising a switch cabinet which is disposed adjacently to said first housing part of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module.

13 . The wind turbine system according to claim 1 , further comprising control elements and display elements all disposed on a same side of said electrical energy transmission system.

14 . An interconnection system, comprising:
a plurality of wind turbine systems each configured according to claim 1 ; said cable termination each having an electrical connection interconnecting said wind turbine systems by connecting to said cable termination of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission modules of said wind turbine systems; in each case, said cable termination of two mutually connected cable terminations is said cable termination of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module which contains said power circuit-breaker; each of said wind turbine systems is interconnected with exactly one further said wind turbine system or with exactly two furthers said wind turbine systems; at least one of said wind turbine systems is interconnected with exactly one further one of said wind turbine systems; at least one of said wind turbine systems is interconnected with exactly two further ones of said wind turbine systems; and each said cable termination of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module of each of said wind turbine systems which is interconnected with two further ones of said wind turbine systems is connected, either to said generator of one said wind turbine system or to said cable termination of said mutually adjacent electrical energy transmission module of one of said two further ones of said wind turbine systems.

Assignees

• Siemens Energy Global Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Beutel Stefan
• Bütüner Ismail Cem
• Steuer Matthias
• Kleinschmidt Andreas
• Kern Johannes
• Singer Andre
• Nijhuis Alexander

Classifications

• H02B1/20

  Bus-bar or other wiring layouts, e.g. in cubicles, in switchyards (installations of bus-bars H02G5/00) · CPC title

• F05B2220/706

  an electrical generator · CPC title

• F03D9/25

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

• Y02E10/72

  Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction · CPC title

• H02B13/02

  with metal casing · CPC title