Systems and methods involving wind turbine towers for power applications
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRuijie Shi, Leonardo Cesar Kammer, Charudatta Subhash Mehendale
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Abstract
A system for determining wind turbine tower base torque loads including a controller configured to determine a torque load of a base of a tower of a wind turbine according to a computation of an effective height of the wind turbine multiplied by a wind force upon a rotor of the wind turbine, and generate a control signal representing the torque load. A method for determining wind turbine tower base torque loads including determining a torque load of a base of a tower of a wind turbine according to the foregoing computation, and generating a control signal representing the torque load.
Claims20
A system for determining wind turbine tower base torque loads, comprising a controller configured to:
- determine a torque load of a base of a tower of a wind turbine according to a computation of an effective height of the wind turbine multiplied by a wind force upon a rotor of the wind turbine, wherein the effective height is a height from the base at which the wind force is applied to the wind turbine;
- and
- generate a control signal representing the torque load.
A method for determining wind turbine tower base torque loads, comprising:
- determining a torque load of a base of a tower of a wind turbine according to a computation of an effective height of the wind turbine multiplied by a wind force upon a rotor of the wind turbine, wherein the effective height is a height from the base at which the wind force is applied to the wind turbine;
- and
- generating a control signal representing the torque load.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.