Blade-pitch-angle control device and wind power generator

• US 7,452,185 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2004
• Issued: 11/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Hayashi, Yoshiyuki, Shibata, Masaaki, Ide, Kazunari
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Ninh H
• Application Number:
  US10/567,971
• Publication Number:
  US 20070041837A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,531 Days
• Field of Search: 416/40, 416/61, 416/35
• US Class Current: 416/35
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/0224 Adjusting blade pitch
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/024 of individual blades
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/043 characterised by the type of control logic
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2270/32 Wind speeds
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2270/326 Rotor angle
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2270/331 Mechanical loads
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2270/335 Output power or torque
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/72 Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction

Abstract

A blade-pitch-angle control device includes a memory unit in which predetermined parameters that affect the load fluctuation of blades, azimuth angles, and pitch-angle command values are stored in association with each other; an azimuth-angle detecting unit that detects the azimuth angle of each of the blades; a parameter-detecting unit that detects the predetermined parameters; a command-value receiving unit that receives pitch-angle command values for each of the blades from the memory unit, the pitch-angle command values being selected on the basis of the azimuth angle of each blade detected by the azimuth-angle detecting unit and the predetermined parameters detected by the parameter-detecting unit; and a pitch-angle-control command-value generating unit that generates pitch-angle-control command values for individually controlling the pitch-angle of each blade on the basis of the pitch-angle command values and a common-pitch-angle command value.

Claims

1. A blade-pitch-angle control device used for a wind power generator having a plurality of blades, the blade-pitch-angle control device comprising:

a memory device in which predetermined parameters that affect the load fluctuation of the blades, azimuth angles, and pitch-angle command values are stored in association with each other;

an azimuth-angle detecting device that detects the azimuth angle of each of the blades;

a parameter-detecting device that detects the predetermined parameters;

a command-value receiving device that receives the pitch-angle command values for each of the blades from the memory device, the pitch-angle command values being selected on the basis of the azimuth angle of each blade detected by the azimuth-angle detecting device and the predetermined parameters detected by the parameter-detecting device; and

a pitch-angle-control command-value generating device that generates pitch-angle-control command values for individually controlling the pitch-angle of each blade on the basis of the pitch-angle command values received by the command-value receiving device and a common-pitch-angle command value that is common to each blade, the common-pitch-angle command value being determined by output information of the wind power generator.

2. The blade-pitch-angle control device according to claim 1, wherein the pitch-angle command values stored in the memory device are set to values in which the wind shear characteristics at the installation location of the wind power generator are reflected.

3. The blade-pitch-angle control device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined parameters comprise the wind speed, and the parameter-detecting device is a wind-speed estimating device that includes a characteristic table relating the wind speed and an output of the wind power generator and that estimates the wind speed by reading out a wind speed corresponding to the output of the wind power generator from the characteristic table.

4. The blade-pitch-angle control device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a frequency-component extraction device that extracts a frequency component corresponding to an integral multiple of the number of blades from any one of the power generation output of the wind power generator, the number of revolutions of the power generator, and the number of rotor revolutions; and

a calculation device that calculates a pitch-angle for eliminating the load fluctuation due to the frequency fluctuation on the basis of the extracted frequency-component,

wherein the pitch-angle-control command-value generating device causes the pitch-angle calculated by the calculation device to be reflected in the pitch-angle-control command value.

5. A wind power generator having a plurality of blades, comprising:

a blade-pitch-angle control device including

a memory device in which predetermined parameters that affect the load fluctuation of the blades, azimuth angles, and pitch-angle command values are stored in association with each other;

an azimuth-angle detecting device that detects the azimuth angle of each of the blades;

a parameter-detecting device that detects the predetermined parameters;

a command-value receiving device that receives the pitch-angle command values for each of the blades from the memory device, the pitch-angle command values being selected on the basis of the azimuth angle of each blade detected by the azimuth-angle detecting device and the predetermined parameters detected by the parameter-detecting device; and

a pitch-angle-control command-value generating device that generates pitch-angle-control command values for individually controlling the pitch-angle of each blade on the basis of the pitch-angle command values received by the command-value receiving device and a common-pitch-angle command value that is common to each blade, the common-pitch-angle command value being determined by output information of the wind power generator.