Apparatus for monitoring the rotational speed in a wind energy plant
AssigneeNordex Energy GmbH
InventorWolfgang Kabatzke
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Abstract
An apparatus for monitoring the rotational speed in a wind energy plant, with a rotor shaft which is driven by the rotor and runs out into a gear unit, and with a generator shaft, which connects an output shaft of the gear unit with a generator/converter unit, characterized by a first rotational speed detection unit on the rotor shaft and a second rotational speed detection unit on the generator shaft, wherein each rotational speed detection unit has at least two rotational speed sensors working independently from each other, an analyzing unit for the rotational speed, to which the measured signals of the rotational speed detection units are applied and which generates an error signal for a rotational overspeed when a certain maximum value for the rotational speed is exceeded.
Claims10
An apparatus for monitoring the rotational speed in a wind energy plant, with a rotor shaft (14) which is driven by a rotor and runs out into a gear unit (16), and with a generator shaft (22), which connects an output shaft of the gear unit (16) with a generator/converter unit (24), characterized by a first rotational speed detection unit (26) on the rotor shaft (14) and a second rotational speed detection unit (34) on the generator shaft (22), wherein each rotational speed detection unit (26, 34) has at least two rotational speed sensors working independently from each other, an analyzing unit (32) for the rotational speed, to which measured signals (28, 30, 36, 38) of the rotational speed detection units (26, 34) are applied and which generates an error signal for a rotational overspeed when a certain maximum value for the rotational speed is exceeded, and
- further characterized in that the analyzing unit (32) for the rotational speed compares the measured values (28,30) of the first rotational speed detection unit (26) with the measured signals (36,38) of the second rotational speed detection unit (34), taking into account a gear ratio, and generates an error signal for a shaft defect at a deviation of the rotational speed values for at least a predetermined threshold value.
An apparatus for monitoring the rotational speed in a wind energy plant, with a rotor shaft (14) which is driven by a rotor and runs out into a gear unit (16), and with a generator shaft (22), which connects an output shaft of the gear unit (16) with a generator/converter unit (24), characterized by a first rotational speed detection unit (26) on the rotor shaft (14) and a second rotational speed detection unit (34) on the generator shaft (22), wherein each rotational speed detection unit (26, 34) has at least two rotational speed sensors working independently from each other, an analyzing unit (32) for the rotational speed, to which measured signals (28, 30, 36, 38) of the rotational speed detection units (26, 34) are applied and which generates an error signal for a rotational overspeed when a certain maximum value for the rotational speed is exceeded and further characterized in that a toothed disk is provided as a transducer disk, which is coated with an anticorrosion agent at least in the region of its teeth.
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