Keba Industrial Automation Germany Gmbh

Lti Reenergy Gmbh

Moog Unna Gmbh

Harald Wertz

Heiko Bach-Preckwinkel

Gerald Herrmann

Daniel Jotzo

Bernd Borgschulte

Stefan Budde

Patrick Tien

Christian Kleinen

Andreas Bünte

Harry Gill

Frank Niermann

A pitch drive controller for a wind turbine having a plurality of rotor blades fixed on a rotor hub for rotational adjustment of the rotor blades on the rotor hub by an electric motor includes a pitch drive control device for each of the rotor blades. The pitch drive control device is in each case configured to actuate a pitch drive motor. The pitch drive control device has in each case an electronic actuation unit for the respective pitch drive motor, a control output to the respective pitch drive motor and a computing unit with a processor configured to operate the respective pitch drive control device. The drive control device has in each case a local communication connection and is connected or connectable to the other pitch drive control devices of the wind turbine in a cross-communication via the local communication connection.

Pitch drive controller for a wind turbine, pitch drive control device, and method for controlling a pitch drive controller

A programmable electronic power regulator includes a power module for controlling an actuator, a control module for actuating the power module, and an internal monitoring module for transferring the control module to an emergency operation. The internal monitoring module is configured to monitor a system state, detect a critical operating state, and output an error signal. The control module comprises: a basic controller, which is configured to output a power module control signal, and in which functions for open- and closed-loop control of the actuator are implemented, which are required for an emergency operation in a critical operating state; an additional controller, in which functions that are not needed for emergency operation are implemented; and a controller disconnection point, which connects the basic controller with the additional controller via a control connection, and which is configured to at least partially disconnect the control connection upon receipt of the error signal.

Programmable electronic power regulator

A pitch drive circuit that operates in an emergency mode, for a wind or water power plant. The circuit has at least one rectifier unit, at least one DC intermediate circuit, two inverter units and a pitch rotary current motor with motor trains that can be contacted on both sides. A first contact side of the motor trains is connected to a first inverter unit and a second contact side of the motor trains is connected to a second inverter unit. At least one switching element is connected to at least one contact side of the motor trains. In a normal operating mode of a first switching state of the switching element the motor trains can be energized via both inverter units, and in an emergency operating mode of a second switching state of the switching element, the motor trains can be energized via a single inverter unit.

Pitch motor drive circuit which can operate in emergency mode

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Harald Wertz