Gamesa Innovation & Technology, S.l.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Innovation & Technology S.l.

Jaime Suarez Aizpun

Octavio Hernandez Mascarell

Carlos Pizarro De La Fuente

Jorn Klaas Gruber

Jesus Bas Quesada

Carlos Moral Gonzalez

Juan Jose Pena Martinez

Felipe Palou Larranaga

Enrique Gomez De Las Heras Carbonell

Pablo Vital Amuchastegui

Alberto Moreno Robles

Carlos Pizzarro De La Fuente

A system includes a wind turbine a wind and a first control device for controlling the wind turbine. The first control device is configured to acquire a yaw misalignment of the wind turbine, which yaw misalignment is a difference between the actual yaw angle and a wind direction at the wind turbine; and to determine at least one of a target pitch angle of the blade and a target torque of the generator based on the yaw misalignment to optimize a power output from the wind turbine. Further, a wind farm includes the system and a method of controlling a wind turbine.

Method and system for optimizing power output of a wind turbine with yaw misalignment

A method for commanding an upstream wind turbine in a wind farm having a plurality of spatially distributed wind turbines and a method for controlling the upstream wind turbine in the wind farm.

Method for commanding an upstream wind turbine in a wind farm

Control system to prevent wind turbine misalignment situations employing mathematical algorithms implemented in the wind turbine controller. Different optimization algorithms have been analyzed getting results that yaw the nacelle of the wind turbine to positions that would maximize the efficiency function. Control system for detecting and preventing wind turbine misalignment situations that comprises a parameters acquisition unit that relates the wind direction with the deviation of the wind turbine nacelle, a wind turbine efficiency function calculation unit and a deviation comparison unit of the nacelle.

Preventing wind turbine misalignment situations

A method for alleviating rotor asymmetric loads in a variable-speed wind turbine having pitch and torque control means comprising the following steps: providing a control law that determines the pitch to be applied individually to each wind turbine blade for counteracting rotor asymmetric loads (such as wind shear, upflow, yaw misalignment) using wind speed and wind direction measurements at the wind turbine, values of the wind features that cause rotor asymmetric loads and configuration parameters of the wind turbine (whether real-time values or statistical values at the wind turbine site), said pitch to be added to the collective pitch &#x3b8;; implementing said control law in the wind turbine control means. The invention also refers to a wind turbine control system arranged for implementing said method.

Methods and systems for alleviating the loads generated in wind turbines by wind asymmetries

Method for the identification in operation of the drive train main vibration frequency of a wind turbine, comprising online steps of: a) obtaining a input signal (r) of the generator speed (&#x3a9;); b) filtering the generator speed input signal (r) for obtaining a generator speed signal (r) in a suitable band for representing the oscillating signal (o) comprised in the input signal (r) of the generator speed (&#x3a9;); c) extracting the drive train main vibration frequency (f) from said filtered signal (r). The invention also comprise a method of damping the drive train vibrations of a wind turbine comprising steps of setting the generator torque reference (Tr) as a function of the generator speed (&#x3a9;) and of the drive train main vibration frequency (f) identified by the above mentioned method and wind turbine control system implementing said damping method.

Method for the identification of the drive train main frequency in a wind turbine

Wind turbine comprising: a tower () and a nacelle () housing a generator () driven by a wind rotor; measuring devices of at least wind speed V, generator speed &#x3a9;, pitch angle &#x3b8;i of each blade, power P, wind turbine accelerations in two perpendicular directions Ax, Ay, yaw angle Yw; azimuth position of the wind rotor AZ in which the control system connected to said measuring devices and to at least pitch and torque control actuators is also arranged for performing an active pitch angle regulation when the wind turbine is in an idling situation above Vchanging the pitch angle &#x3b8;i of each blade for minimizing the wind turbine vibrations depending at least on the measured values of wind speed V, wind turbine accelerations Ax, Ay in two perpendicular directions, yaw angle Yw, azimuth position of the wind rotor AZ and pitch angle &#x3b8;i of each blade.

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Madrid, Spain

Jaime Suarez Aizpun