Components of a wind power plant
AssigneeWobben Properties GmbH
InventorsWerner Fricke, Florian Sartorius, Christian Baumgaertel, Arno Hildebrand, Wilko Gudewer, Peter Geiken, Jochen Roer
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a module carrier for fixing electric modules provided for controlling one or more pitch drives of a wind power installation to a rotor hub of the wind power installation comprising a main body for carrying the electric modules, wherein the rotor hub is adapted to rotate about a substantially horizontal rotor axis, and the main body is adapted to be fixed in front of the rotor hub in the axial direction of the rotor axis.
Claims16
A module carrier comprising:
- electric modules configured to control one or more pitch drives of a wind power installation;
- a main body that is a flat disk shape and includes a receiving surface that receives and holds the electric modules;
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- fixing struts coupled to the main body and configured to couple the main body to a rotor hub of the wind power installation, wherein when the main body is coupled to the rotor hub, the rotor hub is adapted to rotate about a substantially horizontal rotor axis and the receiving surface is perpendicular to the rotor axis of the rotor hub, and wherein the main body is adapted to be fixed in front of the rotor hub in an axial direction of the rotor axis.
A machine carrier of a gearless wind power installation comprising:
- means for carrying an electric generator connected to an aerodynamic rotor of the wind power installation on a pylon, wherein the aerodynamic rotor has a substantially horizontal rotor axis and the pylon has a substantially vertical pylon axis;
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- first and second substantially tubular portions, each arranged substantially perpendicularly to each other, wherein the first tubular portion has a first opening that receives at least a portion of the second substantially tubular portion, and wherein the first substantially tubular portion includes an inner support portion provided in the second substantially tubular portion to reinforce a fillet region of the machine carrier.
A pod a wind power installation comprising:
- a base platform portion located inside of the pod and fixed to a machine carrier in flexurally stiff relationship;
- a suspended platform portion located inside of the pod and fixed in suspended relationship to at least one of the machine carrier and the base platform portion;
- an upper platform located inside of the pod and above the base platform portion;
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- an intermediate platform located between the base platform portion and the upper platform.
A pod of a gearless wind power installation for receiving technical devices required for operation of the wind power installation, the pod comprising:
- a pod casing for protecting the technical devices from weather;
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- ventilation openings in the pod casing that allow outside air to enter the pod for ventilating the pod and for cooling at least parts of the wind power installation, wherein the ventilation openings have droplet separators to separate moisture from inflowing air.
A method of operating a wind power installation, the method comprising:
- receiving air through at least one droplet separator in a pod casing such that the air is received in a first part of a pod;
- blowing the air from the first part of the pod through at least one of a mounting attachment and a journal into a second part of the pod, the second part of the pod including a region of a rotor hub and rotor head;
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- issuing the air from the pod in the second part of the pod to a transitional region between a spinner casing and the pod casing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.