System and method for controlling a wind turbine
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRogier Sebastiaan Blom, Matthijs Leonardus Gerardus Boerlage
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Abstract
A method includes obtaining at least one operational parameter value and at least one environmental parameter value associated with a wind turbine, predicting a future speed of the wind turbine based upon the at least one operational parameter value and the at least one environmental parameter value, determining whether the predicted future speed of the wind turbine exceeds a threshold speed, and if the predicted future speed of the wind turbine exceeds the threshold speed, controlling the wind turbine so that an actual future speed of the wind turbine does not exceed the threshold speed.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- obtaining at least one operational parameter value and at least one environmental parameter value associated with a wind turbine;
- predicting a future speed of the wind turbine based upon the at least one operational parameter value and the at least one environmental parameter value;
- determining whether the predicted future speed of the wind turbine exceeds a threshold speed;
- and
- if the predicted future speed of the wind turbine exceeds the threshold speed, controlling the wind turbine so that an actual future speed of the wind turbine does not exceed the threshold speed.
A control system for a wind turbine, the control system comprising:
- at least one processor for receiving at least one operational parameter value and at least one environmental parameter value and executing the steps of:
- predicting a future speed of the wind turbine based upon the at least one operational parameter value and the at least one environmental parameter value;
- determining whether the predicted future speed of the wind turbine speed exceeds a threshold speed;
- and
- if the predicted future speed of the wind turbine exceeds the predefined threshold speed, controlling the wind turbine so that an actual future speed of the wind turbine does not exceed the threshold speed.
A wind turbine comprising:
- a rotor;
- at least one rotor blade coupled to the rotor;
- at least one generator coupled to the rotor;
- and
- at least one processor for receiving at least one operational parameter value and at least one environmental parameter value and executing the steps of:
- predicting a future speed of the wind turbine based upon the at least one operational parameter value and the at least one environmental parameter value;
- determining whether the predicted future speed of the wind turbine exceeds a threshold speed;
- and
- if the predicted future speed of the wind turbine exceeds the predefined threshold speed, controlling the wind turbine so that an actual future speed of the wind turbine does not exceed the threshold speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.