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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
May. 21, 2015
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Seongkyu Lee, Niskayna, NY (US);
Assignee:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 7/02 (2006.01); F03D 9/25 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 7/0296 (2013.01); F03D 7/0204 (2013.01); F03D 7/0224 (2013.01); F03D 9/25 (2016.05); F05B 2260/821 (2013.01); F05B 2270/333 (2013.01); Y02E 10/723 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of controlling a wind turbine includes obtaining weather data indicative of one or more weather conditions at the wind turbine, estimating wake profiles based on the obtained weather data, estimating far-field sound propagation in a direction of a noise sensitive site based on the estimated wake profiles, generating a yaw signal, wherein the yaw signal controls the yaw of a nacelle relative to a tower of the wind turbine, estimating a noise level at the noise sensitive site, and adjusting the yaw signal if the estimated noise level at the noise sensitive site exceeds a threshold noise level.