Wind turbine with sea level wave characteristic determination
AssigneeSiemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S
InventorsEirik Nagel, John Nieuwenhuizen
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Abstract
A wind turbine which is configured to be disposed in or above a sea floor is provided. The wind turbine includes a tower configured to protrude from a sea level and having a transmitter configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave to be reflected on the sea level and a receiver configured to receive the reflected electromagnetic wave, wherein at least one of the transmitter and the receiver includes a leaky feeder; and a processing unit being in communication with the receiver and configured to analyse the reflected electromagnetic wave such that a wave characteristic of the sea level is determined.
Claims17
A wind turbine which is configured to be disposed in or above a sea floor, the wind turbine comprising:
- a tower configured to protrude from a sea level and having a transmitter configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave to be reflected on the sea level and a receiver configured to receive the reflected electromagnetic wave, wherein at least one of the transmitter and the receiver includes a leaky feeder;
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- a processing unit being in communication with the receiver and configured to analyse the reflected electromagnetic wave such that a wave characteristic of the sea level is determined.
A method of determining a wave characteristic of a sea level, the method comprising the following steps:
- providing a tower of a wind turbine, which protrudes from a sea level, with a transmitter configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave to be reflected on the sea level and a receiver configured to receive the reflected electromagnetic wave, wherein at least one of the transmitter and the receiver comprises a leaky feeder;
- analysing the reflected electromagnetic wave;
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- determining a wave characteristic of the sea level based on the analysed, reflected electromagnetic wave.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.