Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for warning about lightning activity in wind farms
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Application No.: US16769037Application Date: 2018-12-04
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Publication No.: US11243238B2Publication Date: 2022-02-08
- Inventor: Joan Montanyá Puig , Gloria Solà de las Fuentes , Oscar A. Van der Velde , Victor March Nomen
- Applicant: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Innovation & Technology S.L.
- Applicant Address: ES Sarriguren
- Assignee: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Innovation & Technology S.L.
- Current Assignee: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Innovation & Technology S.L.
- Current Assignee Address: ES Sarriguren
- Agency: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts LLP
- Priority: ESP201700795 20171214
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/083426 WO 20181204
- International Announcement: WO2019/115282 WO 20190620
- Main IPC: G01R29/08
- IPC: G01R29/08 ; G01W1/10 ; G01W1/16 ; F03D80/30

Abstract:
A method for warning about lightning activity in wind farms which is suitable for predicting the generation of upward lightning originating from the wind-driven power generators the wind farm and for warning about the possible generation is provided. To that end, in the method the presence or absence of a storm cell in the wind farm and/or in the vicinity thereof, within a radius of less than 400 km, is detected; the local electric field in the wind farm is measured, at least one atmospheric condition is identified or measured under given premises, and the probabilities of the generation of upward lightning originating from the wind-driven power generators of the wind farm are determined depending on the result of the measurements, identifications and detections, a warning signal being transmitted in the event that the determined probability exceeds a given threshold value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210231721A1 METHOD FOR WARNING ABOUT LIGHTNING ACTIVITY IN WIND FARMS Public/Granted day:2021-07-29
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