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US 8,641,376 B2Granted
Wind turbine and method of deicing wind turbine blade
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorMitsuya Baba
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Abstract
A wind turbine is provided with a rotor including a plurality of blades and a deicing unit. The deicing unit performs a deicing operation only on one(s) of the plurality of blades, which has an azimuth angle within a predetermined range. The predetermined range is within a range from 90 to 270 degrees, and includes 180 degrees. Therefore, ice scattering is suppressed in deicing the wind turbine blades.
Claims16
A wind turbine, comprising:
- a rotor including a plurality of blades;
- and
- a deicing unit,
- wherein said deicing unit performs a deicing operation only on one or more of said plurality of blades, which has an azimuth angle within a predetermined range, and
- said predetermined range is within a range from 90 to 270 degrees,
- wherein said deicing unit includes:
- a pitch angle controller independently controlling rotations of said plurality of blades around respective pitch axes;
- and
- an acoustic generator provided on a tower supporting said rotor,
- wherein, in said deicing operation, said pitch angle controller holds said one or more of said plurality of blades in a fine state or an inversion state in which the pitch angle thereof differs in 180 degrees from that of the fine state, and
- wherein said acoustic generator outputs acoustic wave to said one or more of said plurality of blades.
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A wind turbine blade deicing method, comprising:
- performing a deicing operation only on one or more of a plurality of blades provided for a rotor of a wind turbine, which has an azimuth angle falling in a predetermined range,
- wherein said predetermined range is within a range from 90 to 270 degrees,
- wherein said performing said deicing operation includes
- causing an acoustic generator provided on a tower supporting said rotor to output acoustic wave to said one or more of said plurality of blades while holding said one or more of said plurality of blades in a fine state or an inversion state in which a pitch angle thereof differs in 180 degrees from that of the fine state.
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