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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2003
William L. Erdman, Orinda, CA (US);
Terry M. Lettenmaier, Seattle, WA (US);
William L. Erdman, Orinda, CA (US);
Terry M. Lettenmaier, Seattle, WA (US);
Global EnergyConcepts,LLC, Kirkland, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An approach to wind farm design using variable speed wind turbines with low pulse number electrical output. The output of multiple wind turbines are aggregated to create a high pulse number electrical output at a point of common coupling with a utility grid network. Power quality at each individual wind turbine falls short of utility standards, but the aggregated output at the point of common coupling is within acceptable tolerances for utility power quality. The approach for aggregating low pulse number electrical output from multiple wind turbines relies upon a pad mounted transformer at each wind turbine that performs phase multiplication on the output of each wind turbine. Phase multiplication converts a modified square wave from the wind turbine into a 6 pulse output. Phase shifting of the 6 pulse output from each wind turbine allows the aggregated output of multiple wind turbines to be a 24 pulse approximation of a sine wave. Additional filtering and VAR control is embedded within the wind farm to take advantage of the wind farm's electrical impedence characteristics to further enhance power quality at the point of common coupling.