Method for operating a wind turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9957952-B2
Application number	US-201415034145-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 26, 2014
Priority date	Nov 5, 2013
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

A method for controlling at least one wind turbine, wherein the at least one wind turbine is set up to feed electrical power into an electrical power grid, and, depending on an amount of power of the electrical power grid, electrical active power is fed into the electrical power grid or electrical active power is removed from the electrical power grid and is supplied to at least one electrical consumer of the at least one wind turbine, and, depending on a further state variable of the electrical power grid, electrical reactive power is fed into the electrical power grid or electrical reactive power is removed from the electrical power grid.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for controlling at least one wind turbine, the method comprising:
configuring the at least one wind turbine to feed electrical power into an electrical power grid;
if additional supply of the electrical power is needed in the electrical power grid, then feeding electrical active power from the at least one wind turbine into the electrical power grid; and
if there is an excess supply of the electrical power in the electrical power grid, then using the at least one wind turbine to remove active power from the electrical power grid and to supply the removed active power to at least one electrical load of the at least one wind turbine; and
depending on a state variable of the electrical power grid:
feeding electrical reactive power from the at least one wind turbine into the electrical power grid; or
removing the electrical reactive power from the electrical power grid, wherein the state variable includes a variable from a group of grid frequency of the electrical power grid and grid voltage of the electrical power grid.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one electrical load is selected from the group comprising:
a blade heater for heating a rotor blade,
a generator heater for heating a generator,
a nacelle heater for heating a nacelle,
a tower heater for heating a wind turbine tower or a portion thereof, and
a generator of the at least one wind turbine in motor operation.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
the at least one electrical load is configured to perform a load function; and
the electrical active power removed from the electrical power grid is used to operate the at least one electrical load independently of whether there is a demand for the load function of the at least one electrical load.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the electrical active power removed from the electrical power grid is used to operate at least one of the following:
at least one de-icing device independently of whether there is a need for de-icing; and
at least one drying arrangement for drying a component of the wind turbine, independently of whether there is a need for drying the component.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein feeding or removing the electrical active power and feeding and removing the electrical reactive power is performed by at least one frequency inverter.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method includes controlling a plurality of wind turbines, wherein the plurality of wind turbines form a wind farm that feed into the electrical power grid via a grid point of common coupling.

7. A wind turbine comprising:
means for configuring the wind turbine to feed electrical power into an electrical power grid;
means for determining if an additional supply of electrical power is needed in the electrical power grid;
means for determining if there is an excess supply of electrical power in the electrical power grid;
means for feeding electrical active power into the electrical power grid;
means for removing active power from the electrical power grid and supplying the removed active power to at least one electrical load of the at least one wind turbine;
means for determining a state variable of the electrical power grid, the state variable being selected from: a grid frequency of the electrical power grid, and a grid voltage of the electrical power grid; and
means for feeding electrical reactive power into the electrical power grid or removing electrical reactive power from the electrical power grid depending on a state of the state variable.

8. A wind farm comprising:
a plurality of wind turbines, each configured to feed electrical active power and electrical reactive power into the electrical power grid via a grid point of common coupling using the method according to claim 1 .

9. The wind farm according to claim 8 , further comprising a central controller for controlling the plurality of wind turbines.

Assignees

• Wobben Properties Gmbh

Inventors

• Giertz Helge

Classifications

• H02J2101/28

  Wind energy · CPC title

• F03D9/257 Primary

  the wind motor being part of a wind farm · CPC title

• F03D80/40

  Ice detection; De-icing means · CPC title

• F03D7/00

  Controlling wind motors  (supplying or distributing electrical power H02J, e.g. arrangements for adjusting, eliminating or compensating reactive power in networks H02J3/18; controlling electric generators H02P, e.g. arrangements for controlling electric generators for the purpose of obtaining a desired output H02P9/00) · CPC title

• F03D80/60

  Cooling or heating of wind motors · CPC title