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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2015
Vestas Wind Systems A/s, Aarhus N, DK;
VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S, Aarhus N, DK;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for shutting down a wind power facility, said wind power facility comprising a power generator, a power converter comprising generator side and grid side converters being separated by an intermediate DC circuit, and power dissipation or power storage means being operatively connected to the intermediate DC circuit, the method comprising the steps of determining that the wind power facility needs to be shut down, and operating the generator side converter in accordance with a load time curve during shutdown of the wind power facility in order to avoid overloading of selected generator side converter components and the power dissipation or power storage means. Moreover, the present invention relates to a wind power facility for performing this method.