Operating a wind turbine in a wind power plant during loss of communication
AssigneeVestas Wind Systems A/S
InventorsKouroush NAYEBI, Søren KAPPELGAARD
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Abstract
The invention relates to wind turbines, particularly to controlling a wind turbine during a communication loss between the wind turbine and the power plant controller. In case of communication loss, the wind turbine enters a fallback operation mode, wherein the wind turbine is ramping the power production of the wind turbine to a predefined fallback set point.
Claims18
A method for operating a wind turbine in a wind power plant, the wind power plant comprises a power plant controller, the method comprising:
- detecting by the wind turbine a communication loss between the wind turbine and the power plant controller,
- entering a fallback operation mode of the wind turbine in case of detecting the communication loss,
- wherein the fallback operation mode comprises ramping the power production of the wind turbine to a predefined fallback set point.
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A control system for operating a wind turbine during a communication loss, wherein the control system comprises:
- a memory;
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- a processor coupled to the memory and configured to operate a wind turbine in a wind power plant by:
- detecting by the wind turbine a communication loss with the wind turbine,
- entering a fallback operation mode of the wind turbine in case of detecting the communication loss,
- wherein the fallback operation mode comprises ramping the power production of the wind turbine to a predefined fallback set point.
A wind turbine comprising:
- a tower;
- a nacelle disposed on the tower;
- a control system for operating the wind turbine by:
- plant by:
- detecting by the wind turbine a communication loss with the wind turbine,
- entering a fallback operation mode of the wind turbine in case of detecting the communication loss,
- wherein the fallback operation mode comprises ramping the power production of the wind turbine to a predefined fallback set point.
A computer program product comprising software code adapted to control a wind turbine when executed on a data processing system, the computer program product being adapted to perform an operation, comprising:
- detecting by the wind turbine a communication loss between the wind turbine and a power plant controller,
- entering a fallback operation mode of the wind turbine in case of detecting the communication loss,
- wherein the fallback operation mode comprises ramping the power production of the wind turbine to a predefined fallback set point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.