METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A WIND ENERGY INSTALLATION, AND WIND ENERGY INSTALLATION

• US 20150115609A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wobben Properties Gmbh (Aloys Wobben Stiftung)
• Original Assignee: Wobben Properties Gmbh (Aloys Wobben Stiftung)
• Inventors: Bohlen, Werner Hinrich, Giertz, Helge, Schellschmidt, Martin
• Application Number:
  US14/386,253
• Publication Number:
  US 20150115609A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 290/44
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/00 Controlling wind motors supplying or distributing electrical power H02J, e.g. arrangements for adjusting, eliminating or compensating reactive power in networks H02J3/18; controlling electric generators H02P, e.g. arrangements for controlling electric generators for the purpose of obtaining a desired output H02P9/00
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/047 characterised by the controller architecture, e.g. multiple processors or data communications
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/048 controlling wind farms
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 9/25 the apparatus being an electrical generator F03D9/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 9/255 connected to electrical distribution networks; Arrangements therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/44 Program or device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/72 Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/20 Information technology specific aspects, e.g. CAD, simulation, modelling, system security

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for configuring a wind energy installation, comprising the following steps: predetermined parameters associated with the wind energy installation are selected from a control database for the purpose of configuring the wind energy installation, the selected parameters are stored on a mobile data storage medium, the selected parameters are transmitted from the mobile data storage medium to the wind energy installation, the selected parameters are implemented in the wind energy installation, the parameters implemented in the wind energy installation are read out by a monitoring device networked to the wind energy installation and to the control database, and the parameters which have been read out are compared with the predetermined parameters associated with the wind energy installation and stored in the control database.

Claims

1. A method for configuring a wind energy installation, the method comprising:

selecting predetermined parameters associated with the wind energy installation from a control database for the purpose of configuring the wind energy installation;

storing the selected parameters on a mobile data storage medium;

transmitting the selected parameters from the mobile data storage medium to the wind energy installation;

implementing the selected parameters in the wind energy installation;

retrieving the implemented parameters using a monitoring device networked to the wind energy installation and to the control database; and

comparing the implemented parameters with the predetermined parameters associated with the wind energy installation and stored in the control database.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein each parameter is identified by an individual parameter key and the parameter key comprises at least one of the following items of information:

identification of the parameter,

identification of the wind energy installation for associated with, and

identification of a person who last changed the implemented parameter.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the parameters comprise at least one of the following:

data for controlling a generator of the wind energy installation,

data for controlling the feeding of electrical energy from the wind energy installation into an electrical supply network,

operation management data, and

data for controlling protective functions of the wind energy installation.

5. The method according to claim 1 further comprising transmitting a change signal from the wind energy installation to the monitoring device when at least one parameter in the wind energy installation has been changed.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein comparing the implemented parameters with the predetermined parameters comprises comparing only the changed parameters identified by the change signal with the predetermined parameters associated with the wind energy installation and stored in the control database.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein:

retrieving the implemented parameters comprises retrieving each implemented parameter individually from the wind energy installation; and

comparing the implemented parameters with the predetermined parameters comprises comparing each individually retrieved implemented parameter with the corresponding parameter stored in the control database.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein selecting parameters comprises selecting parameters in a parameter set that are combined based an identification code associated with the wind energy installation or are each associated with the identification code, and the identification code including at least one of:

a type code identifying the type of wind energy installation; and

an individual code identifying the specific wind energy installation.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein a subset of the parameters combined are implemented in the wind energy installation when implementing the selected parameters in the wind energy installation.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein after comparing the implemented parameters with predetermined parameters associated with the wind energy installation, activating the wind power installation.

11. A wind energy installation for generating electrical energy from wind, wherein the wind energy installation is configured according to the method of claim 1.

12. A wind energy installation arrangement comprising;

a control database;

a monitoring device networked to the control database; and

a wind energy installation configured by the method according to claim 1.

13. The method of claim 5 wherein the change signal contains information for identifying the at least one changed parameter and at least one of the following:

date of the change;

time of the change; and

identification of the parameter changed.

14. The method of claim 5 wherein all of the implemented parameters are compared when an amount of changed parameters exceeds a threshold amount.

2. A method for configuring a wind energy installation, the method comprising:

selecting predetermined parameters associated with the wind energy installation from a control database for the purpose of configuring the wind energy installation;

storing a data storage medium identifier associated with the selected parameters and with the wind energy installation to be configured on a mobile data storage medium;

coupling the mobile data storage medium to the wind energy installation;

comparing a data storage medium identifier with an identifier of the wind energy installation;

when the data storage medium identifier corresponds to the identifier of the wind energy installation, transmitting the selected parameters from the control database to the wind energy installation using a monitoring device networked to the wind energy installation and to the control database; and

implementing the selected parameters in the wind energy installation.

15. The method of claim 2, wherein each parameter is identified by an individual parameter key and the parameter key comprises at least one of:

identification of the parameter;

identification of the wind energy installation for associated with; and

identification of a person who last changed the implemented parameter.