Wind Turbine Generator, Active Damping Method Thereof, and Windmill Tower
First Claim
1. A wind turbine generator including a pitch-angle control mechanism for controlling a pitch angle of windmill blades on the basis of a blade-pitch-angle command, the wind turbine generator comprising:
- an accelerometer, attached to a nacelle, for detecting the acceleration due to vibrations of the nacelle; and
an active damping unit for calculating a pitch angle of the windmill blades for generating a thrust on the windmill blades so as to cancel out the vibrations of the nacelle on the basis of the acceleration detected with the accelerometer and for outputting a blade-pitch-angle command to the pitch-angle control mechanism.
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Abstract
A wind turbine generator, an active damping method thereof, and a windmill tower in which vibrations of the wind turbine generator itself or the windmill tower can be reduced at low cost are provided. The acceleration due to vibrations of a nacelle (13) is detected with an accelerometer (17) attached to the nacelle (13). In an active damping unit (20), a pitch angle of windmill blades (12) for generating a thrust on the windmill blades (12) so as to cancel out the vibrations of the nacelle (13) is calculated on the basis of the acceleration, and the pitch angle is output as a blade-pitch-angle command δθ* for damping. On the other hand, in a pitch-angle control unit (30), a pitch angle of the windmill blades (12) for controlling the output to be a predetermined value is calculated, and the pitch angle is output as a blade-pitch-angle command θ* for output control. The blade-pitch-angle command δθ* for damping is combined with the blade-pitch-angle command θ* for output control using a subtracter (40). The pitch angle of the windmill blades is controlled on the basis of the resulting blade-pitch-angle command after combining.
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17 Claims
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1. A wind turbine generator including a pitch-angle control mechanism for controlling a pitch angle of windmill blades on the basis of a blade-pitch-angle command, the wind turbine generator comprising:
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an accelerometer, attached to a nacelle, for detecting the acceleration due to vibrations of the nacelle; and an active damping unit for calculating a pitch angle of the windmill blades for generating a thrust on the windmill blades so as to cancel out the vibrations of the nacelle on the basis of the acceleration detected with the accelerometer and for outputting a blade-pitch-angle command to the pitch-angle control mechanism. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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2. A wind turbine generator including a pitch-angle control mechanism for controlling a pitch angle of windmill blades on the basis of a blade-pitch-angle command, the wind turbine generator comprising:
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an accelerometer, attached to a nacelle, for detecting the acceleration due to vibrations of the nacelle; an active damping unit for calculating a pitch angle of the windmill blades for generating a thrust on the windmill blades so as to cancel out the vibrations of the nacelle on the basis of the acceleration detected with the accelerometer and for outputting a blade-pitch-angle command for damping; a pitch-angle control unit for calculating a pitch angle of the windmill blades for controlling the output of the wind turbine generator to be a predetermined value on the basis of wind speed, the rotational speed of a windmill rotor, or the output of the wind turbine generator and for outputting a blade-pitch-angle command for output control; and an adder for supplying the pitch-angle control mechanism with a blade-pitch-angle command obtained by combining the blade-pitch-angle command for damping output from the active damping unit with the blade-pitch-angle command for output control output from the pitch-angle control unit.
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9. An active damping method of a wind turbine generator including
a pitch-angle control mechanism for controlling a pitch angle of windmill blades on the basis of a blade-pitch-angle command, and an accelerometer, attached to a nacelle, for detecting the acceleration due to vibrations of the nacelle, the active damping method comprising: an active damping step of calculating a pitch angle of the windmill blades for generating a thrust on the windmill blades so as to cancel out the vibrations of the nacelle on the basis of the acceleration detected with the accelerometer and outputting a blade-pitch-angle command to the pitch-angle control mechanism. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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10. An active damping method of a wind turbine generator including
a pitch-angle control mechanism for controlling a pitch angle of windmill blades on the basis of a blade-pitch-angle command, and an accelerometer, attached to a nacelle, for detecting the acceleration due to vibrations of the nacelle, the active damping method comprising: -
an active damping step of calculating a pitch angle of the windmill blades for generating a thrust on the windmill blades so as to cancel out the vibrations of the nacelle on the basis of the acceleration detected with the accelerometer and outputting a blade-pitch-angle command for damping; a pitch-angle control step of calculating a pitch angle of the windmill blades for controlling the output of the wind turbine generator to be a predetermined value on the basis of wind speed, the rotational speed of a windmill rotor, or the output of the wind turbine generator and outputting a blade-pitch-angle command for output control; and an addition step of supplying the pitch-angle control mechanism with a blade-pitch-angle command obtained by combining the blade-pitch-angle command for damping in the active damping step with the blade-pitch-angle command for output control in the pitch-angle control step.
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17. A windmill tower comprising a wind turbine generator including
a pitch-angle control mechanism for controlling a pitch angle of windmill blades on the basis of a blade-pitch-angle command, an accelerometer, attached to a nacelle, for detecting the acceleration due to vibrations of the nacelle, and an active damping unit for calculating a pitch angle of the windmill blades for generating a thrust on the windmill blades so as to cancel out the vibrations of the nacelle on the basis of the acceleration detected with the accelerometer and for outputting a blade-pitch-angle command to the pitch-angle control mechanism.
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