IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
UP-0348230
(2009-01-02)
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등록번호 |
US-7819019
(2010-11-15)
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우선권정보 |
DK-2006 00913(2006-07-03) |
발명자
/ 주소 |
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출원인 / 주소 |
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대리인 / 주소 |
St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens LLC
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
6 인용 특허 :
4 |
초록
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A wind turbine testing system is disclosed for testing at least a part of the nacelle components of a wind turbine system when mounted on a load carrying structure of a nacelle, said wind turbine testing system comprising a test bench being arranged to hold said load carrying structure including sai
A wind turbine testing system is disclosed for testing at least a part of the nacelle components of a wind turbine system when mounted on a load carrying structure of a nacelle, said wind turbine testing system comprising a test bench being arranged to hold said load carrying structure including said nacelle components, a grid simulation system comprising a power converter system and a simulation controller being arranged to be electrically coupled to at least one of said nacelle components and being adapted for providing a simulated utility grid on the basis of a power supply and at least one control signal established by said simulation controller, and a wind simulation system comprising a wind turbine shaft rotating means arranged to be coupled to a rotating part of said generator system or a generator-related system of a nacelle or a part of a nacelle located in said test bench.
대표청구항
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What is claimed is: 1. A wind turbine testing system for testing at least a part of nacelle components of a wind turbine system including an electrical generator system, said nacelle components being mounted on a load carrying structure of a nacelle of said wind turbine system, said wind turbine te
What is claimed is: 1. A wind turbine testing system for testing at least a part of nacelle components of a wind turbine system including an electrical generator system, said nacelle components being mounted on a load carrying structure of a nacelle of said wind turbine system, said wind turbine testing system comprising a test bench being arranged to hold said load carrying structure of said wind turbine nacelle including said nacelle components, a grid simulation system comprising a power converter system and a simulation controller being arranged to be electrically coupled to at least one of said nacelle components and being adapted for providing a simulated utility grid on the basis of a power supply and at least one control signal established by said simulation controller, and a wind simulation system comprising a wind turbine shaft rotating means arranged to be coupled to a rotating part of said generator system or a generator-related system of a wind turbine nacelle or a part of a wind turbine nacelle located in said test bench. 2. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1, wherein said test bench is arranged to hold a complete nacelle of said wind turbine system. 3. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1, wherein said shaft rotating means comprises means for being mechanically connected to a low speed shaft of said wind turbine system. 4. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1, wherein said shaft rotating means comprises means for being mechanically connected to a high speed shaft of said wind turbine system. 5. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1, wherein said simulated utility grid comprises means for being electrically coupled to a generator output transformer of said nacelle components. 6. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1, wherein said simulated utility grid comprises means for being electrically coupled to a power frequency converter of said nacelle components. 7. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1, wherein said power converter system is arranged to simulate different grid conditions in response to control signals from said simulation controller. 8. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 7, wherein said grid conditions comprise at least one of fault conditions, weak grid conditions and asymmetric grid conditions. 9. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 7, wherein said grid conditions comprise voltage variations, short-circuits, cos(φ) variations, frequency variations of phases, current variations, curve form variations of individual, some or all phases and any combination thereof. 10. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 7, wherein said grid conditions involve time varying grid conditions. 11. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1, wherein said power supply is provided by a utility grid. 12. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1, wherein said power converter system comprises a switching semiconductor based converter. 13. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 12, wherein said semiconductor based converter is a thyristor based converter. 14. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1, wherein said grid simulation system further comprises a grid input transformer coupled between said power supply and said power converter system. 15. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1, wherein said grid simulation system further comprises a grid output transformer coupled between said power converter system and said simulated utility grid. 16. The wind turbine testing system according to claim 1 further comprising at least one of a nacelle stress simulating system, a wind turbine system temperature simulating system and a wind turbine system humidity simulating system. 17. A method of testing at least a part of nacelle components of a wind turbine system when mounted on a load carrying structure of a nacelle of said wind turbine system by means of a wind turbine testing system comprising the steps of: mounting said nacelle components onto a load carrying structure of a wind turbine nacelle, placing said load carrying structure in a test bench of said wind turbine testing system, coupling a shaft rotating means of a wind simulation system of said wind turbine testing system to a rotating part of a generator system or a generator-related system of said wind turbine nacelle, coupling a simulated utility grid of a grid simulation system of said wind turbine testing system electrically to an electrical nacelle component, rotating said rotating part of a generator system by means of said wind simulation system simulating different wind conditions, exposing said nacelle component to different simulated grid conditions by means of said grid simulation system, and establishing and evaluating feedback from said nacelle components under different simultaneously simulated wind and grid conditions. 18. A method of testing at least a part of nacelle components of a wind turbine system when mounted on a load carrying structure of a nacelle of said wind turbine system by means of a wind turbine testing system comprising the steps of: mounting said nacelle components in a wind turbine nacelle, placing said wind turbine nacelle in a test bench of said wind turbine testing system, coupling a shaft rotating means of a wind simulation system of said wind turbine testing system to a rotating part of a generator system or a generator-related system of said wind turbine nacelle, coupling a simulated utility grid of a grid simulation system of said wind turbine testing system electrically to an electrical nacelle component, rotating said rotating part of a generator system by means of said wind simulation system simulating different wind conditions, exposing said nacelle component to different simulated grid conditions by means of said grid simulation system, and establishing and evaluating feedback from said nacelle components under different simultaneously simulated wind and grid conditions. 19. The method according to claim 17, wherein said wind turbine testing system comprises a wind turbine testing system comprising a test bench being arranged to hold said load carrying structure of said wind turbine nacelle including said nacelle components, a grid simulation system comprising a power converter system and a simulation controller being arranged to be electrically coupled to at least one of said nacelle components and being adapted for providing a simulated utility grid on the basis of a power supply and at least one control signal established by said simulation controller, and a wind simulation system comprising a wind turbine shaft rotating means arranged to be coupled to a rotating part of said generator system or a generator-related system of a wind turbine nacelle or a part of a wind turbine nacelle located in said test bench. 20. The method according to claim 17, wherein said simulated grid conditions include fault conditions of a utility grid.
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