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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2022
General Electric Renovables Espana, S.l., Barcelona, ES;
Marc Canal Vila, Barcelona, ES;
Saskia Honhoff, Garching, DE;
Shanmuga-Priyan Subramanian, Hamburg, DE;
Thomas Jean Picard, Barcelona, ES;
General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L., Barcelona, ES;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods () for controlling and operating wind turbines (). More particularly, the present disclosure relates to methods and systems for determining a surface condition of one or more wind turbine blades () of a wind turbine (). a method comprises rotating the wind turbine rotor () under the influence of a wind in predetermined rotation conditions, wherein the predetermined rotation conditions include at least a predetermined pitch angle () of the additional wind turbine blades (). The method further comprises determining a current value of one or more parameters of the wind turbine () when rotating in the predetermined rotation conditions and comparing the current value of the one or more parameters of the wind turbine with one or more reference values () to determine the surface condition of the wind turbine blades ().