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US 7,025,567 B2Granted
Early-warning system for wind power installations
OwnerAloys Wobbeninventor
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The claimed and disclosed systems and methods are directed to providing measures and possible ways of protecting a wind power installation in a wind park from wind conditions that may potentially cause damage or even result in the failure of at least one of the wind power installations. The wind is monitored in at least one region of the wind park and based on the monitored wind readings; the rotor blades of at least some of the wind power installations may be adjusted to avoid detrimental damage thereto. This protection may be balanced with contemporaneously determining whether other, non-impacted wind installations can be contemporaneously operated at or near their maximum possible energy yield. At least one wind power installation may have a SODAR system mounted thereon to detect the wind in a region of the wind power installation.
A wind power installation comprising a SODAR system which is mounted to the pod of the wind power installation and which detects the region in front of the rotor of the wind power installation.
An early-warning system for protecting wind power installations in a wind park, comprising:
A method of controlling one or more wind power installations, the method comprising:
A wind power installation comprising a device for detecting the wind conditions in the region of the wind power installation characterized by a device for transmitting/receiving wind speed and/or wind direction information to/from at least one of the further wind power installations in the wind park.
A wind power installation comprising a device for detecting the wind conditions characterized in that the device for detecting the wind speed operates with sound waves, preferably with ultrasonic waves in the manner of a SODAR.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.