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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2006
Applicants:
Henning Luetze, Bad Bentheim, DE;
Thomas Edenfeld, Osnabruck, DE;
Peter Gauchel, Munster, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wind turbine braking system including: a wind turbine including turbine blades and a control system; a generator coupled to the turbine blades; a generator converter coupled to the generator and connectable to a utility power grid; at least one dump resistor coupled to the generator and generator converter, and if the utility power grid losses power, the dump resistor applying an electrical load to the generator converter.