Priority system for communication in a system of at least two distributed wind turbines

• US 7,960,850 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2009
• Issued: 06/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
• Original Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
• Inventors: Rasmussen, Keld
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuevas; Pedro J
• Application Number:
  US12/396,136
• Publication Number:
  US 20090160189A1
• Time in Patent Office: 834 Days
• Field of Search: 290/44, 370/447, 370/462
• US Class Current: 290/44
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/028 controlling wind motor output power
• 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: F05B 2260/80 Diagnostics
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2619 Wind turbines
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/72 Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction

Abstract

The invention relates to a system of at least two distributed wind turbines where the at least two wind turbines communicate via a data communication network, the data communication network communicates monitoring and control data (MCD) to and from the at least two wind turbines (WT), the data communication network communicates power control related data (PCRD) to and from the at least two wind turbines (WT), the power control related data (PCRD) has higher transmission priority than a subset of the monitoring and control data (MCD) and where the transmission priority is defined in relation to a protocol.

Claims

1. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines connected by a data communication network wherein

said data communication network communicates at least monitoring and control data and power control related data to and from said at least two wind turbines,

said power control related data is assigned a higher transmission priority than a subset of said monitoring and control data,

said transmission priority is defined in relation to a protocol, wherein

said protocol has a higher transmission priority.

2. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said power control related data having high transmission priority comprises information of active power.

3. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said power control related data having high transmission priority comprises information of reactive power.

4. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said power control related data having high transmission priority comprises Power Factor regulation data.

5. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said monitoring and control data are transmitted to and from said at least two wind turbines via a data communication network.

6. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said data communication network is a copper, fiber or wireless network or a combination of these.

7. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said power control related data having higher transmission priority is transmitted via a further network.

8. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring and control data and the power control related data having higher transmission priority is transmitted via the same data communication network as data packets having different priorities.

9. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said at least two wind turbines comprise means for encoding data packets including a specification of priority level.

10. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said at least two wind turbines comprise means for decoding data packets including a detection of priority level.

11. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said power control related data comprises a representation of one or more measurements relating to the wind turbine.

12. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said monitoring and control data is transmitted as data packets associated with priorities.

13. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said monitoring and control data are transmitted as data packets associated with priorities and wherein said data packets are encoded according to a single protocol incorporating priorities.

14. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said monitoring and control data are transmitted as data packets associated with priorities and wherein said data packets are encoded according to at least two different protocols and wherein the different protocols designates different corresponding priorities.

15. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said monitoring and control data are transmitted as data packets of a single protocol associated with priorities and wherein said priorities are defined within said protocol.

16. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, wherein said system is a part of a Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system at least partly.

17. A system of at least two distributed wind turbines according to claim 1, further comprising at least one data buffer buffering said monitoring and control data and power control related data, wherein said buffering of monitoring and control data and power control related data is dependent on priorities of said data, and wherein power control related data having a higher transmission priority is moved to a leading position in the data buffer.