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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Pranav Agarwal, Guilderland, NY (US);
Mark Edward Cardinal, Altamont, NY (US);
Nora Cheng-Huei Han, Munich, DE;
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A wind turbine system, comprising a tower, a plurality of blades, a rotor supported by the tower and rotatably coupled to the plurality of blades, a pitch control device for regulating pitch angles of the plurality of blades, a torque control device for regulating torque of the rotor, a processing subsystem programmed to slow down the wind turbine system by using the torque control device alone to slow down the rotor when the torque control device is fully capable of slowing down the rotor, and using both the torque control device and the pitch control device to slow down the rotor when the torque control device alone is not fully capable of slowing down the rotor.