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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Vestas Wind Systems A/s, Aarhus N., DK;

Inventor:

Michael Staghøj, Aarhus N., DK;

Assignee:

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Aarhus N, DK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 80/60 (2016.01); F03D 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 80/60 (2016.05); F03D 7/028 (2013.01); F03D 7/0272 (2013.01); F03D 7/0276 (2013.01); F05B 2260/20 (2013.01); F05B 2260/202 (2013.01); F05B 2260/203 (2013.01); F05B 2260/205 (2013.01); F05B 2270/303 (2013.01); F05B 2270/3032 (2013.01); F05B 2270/325 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of cooling a wind turbine. A cooling system is operated with a first setpoint temperature to cool the wind turbine over a first period. The method comprises measuring a temperature of the wind turbine over the first period to obtain temperature measurements; allocating each of the temperature measurements to a temperature range, wherein one or more of the temperature ranges are critical temperature ranges; and for each critical temperature range, comparing a parameter indicative of a number of the temperature measurements allocated to the critical temperature range with a threshold; selecting a second setpoint temperature on the basis of the comparison(s); and operating the cooling system with the second setpoint temperature over a second period. An equivalent method is also disclosed in which a power setting of the wind turbine is changed on the basis of the comparison(s).


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