IP Library Granted Patent US 12,392,321
Granted Patent B2
US 12,392,321 · App. 18/575,436 · Granted Aug 19, 2025

Shutdown maintenance method and apparatus for wind turbine, and device following a failure

Inventors: Jingyuan Wang (Beijing, CN); Yan Li (Beijing, CN); Pin Lv (Beijing, CN); Qiang Li (Beijing, CN); Mingrui Qi (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
F03D7/0264F03D7/0268F03D17/014F03D80/50F03D80/505F05B2260/31
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Patent No.
US 12,392,321
App. No.
18/575,436
Granted
Aug 19, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

This application discloses a method, device, and apparatus for maintaining a wind turbine generator plant, which relates to the field of wind power generation. The method includes determining a failure of the wind turbine generator plant when the wind turbine generator plant enters a shutdown maintenance mode; determining a maintenance wind speed corresponding to the failure; adjusting one of blades of the wind turbine generator plant to reach a predetermined azimuth angle and lock an impeller of the wind turbine generator plant to maintain the wind turbine generator plant in a case where the failure belongs to a first type of failure and a real-time wind speed obtained is less than or equal to the maintenance wind speed corresponding to the failure, the first type of failure comprising a failure that requires to lock the impeller for maintenance and the predetermined azimuth angle being a different integral multiple of 30°.

Claims (34)

1. A method for maintaining a wind turbine generator plant, comprising steps of:

determining a failure of the wind turbine generator plant when the wind turbine generator plant enters a shutdown maintenance mode;

determining a maintenance wind speed corresponding to the failure, and

adjusting one of blades in the wind turbine generator plant to reach a predetermined azimuth angle and locking an impeller of the wind turbine generator plant to maintain the wind turbine generator plant in a case where the failure belongs to a first type of failure and a real-time wind speed obtained is less than or equal to the maintenance wind speed corresponding to the failure, the first type of failure comprising a failure that requires to lock the impeller for maintenance and the predetermined azimuth angle comprising one of integer multiples of 30°.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined azimuth angle comprises 180° or 270°.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the failure comprises a pitch stuck failure, and

the step of adjusting one of blades in the wind turbine generator plant to reach the predetermined azimuth angle and locking the impeller of the wind turbine generator plant comprises

obtaining a pitch angle of each of the blades of the wind turbine generator plant and determining a blade whose pitch angle is not a fully feathering angle as a pitch stuck blade, and

adjusting the pitch stuck blade to reach an azimuth angle of 270° and locking the impeller of the wind turbine generator plant.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the failure comprises a transmission chain failure, and

the step of adjusting one of blades in the wind turbine generator plant to reach the predetermined azimuth angle and locking the impeller of the wind turbine generator plant comprises

obtaining a real-time azimuth angle of each of the blades of the wind turbine generator plant, and

adjusting a blade whose real-time azimuth angle is closest to the predetermined azimuth angle to reach the predetermined azimuth angle and locking the impeller of the wind turbine generator plant.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first type of failure comprises a pitch stuck failure and a transmission chain failure, and a maintenance wind speed corresponding to the pitch stuck failure is less than a maintenance wind speed corresponding to the transmission chain failure.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein

a locking disk of a main shaft of the wind turbine generator plant comprises three sets of locking holes, each set of the locking holes comprises two locking holes, an angle of 30° is formed between the two locking holes, an angle of 120° is formed between first locking holes in any two sets of locking holes, and a position of the first locking hole in each set of locking holes is consistent with or forms a specific angle with respect to a position of the blade;

the wind turbine generator plant comprises two or more locking pins, one locking pin of the locking pins is located at an azimuth angle of 60° or forms a specific angle with respect to the azimuth angle of 60°, and another locking pin of the locking pins is located at an azimuth angle of 300° or forms a specific angle with respect to the azimuth angle of 300°.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the step of adjusting one of blades in the wind turbine generator plant to reach the predetermined azimuth angle and locking the impeller of the wind turbine generator plant comprises

controlling, when one locking hole of one set of locking holes of the three sets of locking holes is aligned with the one locking pin located at the azimuth angle of 60° and one locking hole of one set of locking holes of remaining sets of locking holes is aligned with the another locking pin located at the azimuth angle of 300°, insertion of the one locking pin into the one locking hole of the one set of locking holes of the three sets of locking holes and the another locking pin into the one locking bole of the one set of locking holes of the remaining sets of locking holes to lock the impeller.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising a step of:

maintaining the wind turbine generator plant in a case where the failure belongs to a second type of failure and the real-time wind speed obtained is less than or equal to the maintenance wind speed corresponding to the failure, the second type of failure comprising a failure whose maintenance process does not require to lock the impeller.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the first type of failure comprises a pitch stuck failure, the second type of failure comprises a yaw failure, and a maintenance wind speed corresponding to the yaw failure is larger than a maintenance wind speed corresponding to the pitch stuck failure.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of adjusting one of blades of the wind turbine generator plant to reach the predetermined azimuth angle comprises

driving a transmission component in the wind turbine generator plant by using a control signal to drive one of the blades in the wind turbine generator plant to reach the predetermined azimuth angle.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a computer-executable program for maintaining a wind turbine generator plant, the program comprising instructions for:

determining a failure of the wind turbine generator plant when the wind turbine generator plant enters a shutdown maintenance mode;

determining a maintenance wind speed corresponding to the failure, and

adjusting one of blades in the wind turbine generator plant to reach a predetermined azimuth angle and locking an impeller of the wind turbine generator plant to maintain the wind turbine generator plant in a case where the failure belongs to a first type of failure and a real-time wind speed obtained is less than or equal to the maintenance wind speed corresponding to the failure, the first type of failure comprising a failure that requires to lock the impeller for maintenance and the predetermined azimuth angle comprising one of integer multiples of 30°.

12. A maintenance apparatus for a wind turbine generator plant, comprising:

a processor, and

a memory storing computer program instructions thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:

determine a failure of the wind turbine generator plant when the wind turbine generator plant enters a shutdown maintenance mode;

determine a maintenance wind speed corresponding to the failure, and

adjust one of blades in the wind turbine generator plant to reach a predetermined azimuth angle and locking an impeller of the wind turbine generator plant to maintain the wind turbine generator plant in a case where the failure belongs to a first type of failure and a real-time wind speed obtained is less than or equal to the maintenance wind speed corresponding to the failure, the first type of failure comprising a failure that requires to lock the impeller for maintenance and the predetermined azimuth angle comprising one of integer multiples of 30°.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 29, 2023
From: WANG, JINGYUAN; LI, YAN; LV, PIN; LI, QIANG; QI, MINGRUI
To: GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202210611961.0 · May 31, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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