METHOD FOR PROVIDING OPERATING DATA OF A WIND FARM

• US 20090210200A1
• Filed: 02/13/2009
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: REpower Systems AG (Senvion SE)
• Original Assignee: REpower Systems AG (Senvion SE)
• Inventors: ELSNER, Ralf, PRINZ, Matthias, BOOK, Markus, KUNFT, Guntram
• Application Number:
  US12/371,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20090210200A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/188
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0264 Control of logging system, e.g. decision on which data to store; time-stamping measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0267 Fault communication, e.g. human machine interface [HMI]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/52 Outage or fault management, e.g. fault detection or location

Abstract

A method for providing operating data of a wind farm comprising a plurality of wind farm components. The operating data of the wind farm components are recorded and are stored in the relevant wind farm component. The operating data are sent to a plurality of receivers using a push method. The method simplifies the management of the operating data and requires only minimal transmission capacity in the data line of the wind farm component.

Claims

1. A method for providing operating data of a wind farm comprising more than one wind farm component said method comprising the steps of:

a) recording operating data of a wind farm component;

b) storing the operating data in the wind farm component;

c) sending the operating data to a receiver outside the wind farm using a push method.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the operating data are sent in step c) based on an irregular event.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the irregular event is a message received in the wind farm component.

4. The method of claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein the operating data are stored in step b) in a memory card.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the operating data are stored in step b) in subdivided form, and some of the operating data are not sent in step c).

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the operating data sent in step c) are evaluated, and a result of the evaluation is transmitted to the wind farm component.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the operating data are sent to a plurality of receivers.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the data are not erased from the memory of the wind farm component before the operating data are sent to the plurality of receivers.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the operating data are transmitted to the receiver in encrypted form.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising recording operating data of a plurality of wind farm components storing the operating data in the associated wind farm component and sending the operating data to one or more receivers outside the wind farm using the push method, wherein the operations of sending operating data are coordinated with one another in terms of time.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the sending operations are coordinated in terms of time in such a manner that sending periods of the plurality of wind farm components do not overlap.