IP Library Granted Patent US 9,110,481
Granted Patent B2
US 9,110,481 · App. 14/345,288 · Granted Aug 18, 2015

Method and arrangement for feeding electrical power from a wind energy installation into an AC voltage system

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Patent No.
US 9,110,481
App. No.
14/345,288
Granted
Aug 18, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

Electrical power is fed from a wind energy installation into an AC voltage system via an energy transmission path, which is delimited by an installation-side transformer and a system-side transformer. A power factor correction device is connected, at a common node between the energy transmission path and the AC voltage system using a closed-loop control device, which controls the wind energy installation and which receives a variable which is proportional to the reactive power on the energy transmission path and a further measured variable. A measurement signal produced at the output of the power factor correction device is used as further measured variable. The closed-loop controller has such a control characteristic that the voltage on the low-voltage side of the system-side transformer increases, depending on the reactive power on the energy transmission path, from the inductive range to the capacitive range.

Claims (15)

1. A method of operating a system for feeding electrical power from a wind energy installation into an AC voltage system via an energy transmission path, which is delimited on one side by an installation-side transformer and on another side by a system-side transformer with a power factor correction device connected thereto, at a common node between the energy transmission path and the AC voltage system, the method comprising:

determining a variable that is proportional to a reactive power on the energy transmission path;

obtaining a measurement signal at an output of the power factor correction device as a further measured variable;

providing a closed-loop control device for controlling the wind energy installation and inputting to the closed-loop control device the variable that is proportional to the reactive power on the energy transmission path and the further measured variable; and

operating the closed-loop control device with a control characteristic such that a voltage on a low-voltage side of the system-side transformer increases from an inductive range to a capacitive range depending on the reactive power on the energy transmission path.

2. The method according to claim 1 , which comprises obtaining the measurement signal from the voltage at the output of the power factor correction device.

3. The method according to claim 1 , which comprises obtaining the measurement signal from the reactive power at the output of the power factor correction device.

4. A configuration for feeding electrical power from a wind energy installation into an AC voltage system, comprising:

an energy transmission path connected between the wind energy installation and the AC voltage system at a node between said energy transmission path and the AC voltage system, said energy transmission path being delimited by an installation-side transformer and a system-side transformer;

a power factor correction device having an output, said power factor correction device being connected to said system-side transformer;

a closed-loop control device for the wind energy installation, said closed-loop control device having a first input connected to receive a variable that is proportional to a reactive power on said energy transmission path, an a second input;

a measured value detection device connected to said output of said power factor correction device and to said second input of said closed-loop control device; and

said closed-loop control device having such a control characteristic that a voltage on a low-voltage side of said system-side transformer increases from an inductive range to a capacitive range depending on the reactive power on said energy transmission path.

5. The configuration according to claim 4 , wherein said measured value detection device is a voltage transformer.

6. The configuration according to claim 4 , wherein said measured value detection device is a reactive power measuring device.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 15, 2021
From: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 055950/0027 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 26, 2014
From: STROBL, BERNHARD
To: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 032526/0248 →