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US 12,571,369 B2Granted
Wind turbine farm
OwnerWilliam Larry Hamiltoninventor
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Abstract
Wind turbine farms are presented including: a number of steerable wind turbines, where each of the steerable wind turbines includes a turbine diameter and a blade center locus, where each of the steerable wind turbines are separately and axially steerable about a vertical axis to align with one or more prevailing wind directions, where the steerable wind turbines is arranged in one or more modules, where each of the modules is defined by at least two steerable wind turbines, where each of the at least two steerable wind turbines in a module is positioned in a fixed position.
Claims12
A wind turbine farm comprising:
- a plurality of steerable wind turbines, wherein
- each of the plurality of steerable wind turbines includes a turbine diameter and a blade center locus, wherein
- each of the plurality of steerable wind turbines are separately and axially steerable about a vertical axis to align with one or more prevailing wind directions, wherein
- the plurality of steerable wind turbines is arranged in one or more modules, wherein
- each of the one or more modules is defined by at least two steerable wind turbines, wherein
- each of the at least two steerable wind turbines in a module is positioned in a fixed position, the fixed position including a horizontal column coordinate, a horizontal row coordinate, and a vertical elevation coordinate such that the blade center loci between at least two of the at least two steerable wind turbines within the module are separated by approximately 0.5 to 4.0 turbine diameters in any horizontal or vertical direction and wherein
- each of the one or more modules includes an optimum orientation corresponding with the one or more prevailing wind directions that minimizes wake interference between other modules in the wind turbine farm.
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