US 11,859,594 B2
Method for operating a wind turbine, wind turbine, and computer program product
Karsten Warfen, Weede/Söhren (DE); and Stefan Behl, Neumünster (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Service GmbH, Hamburg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/053,671
Filed by SENVION GmbH, Hamburg (DE)
PCT Filed May 7, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/061677
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 6, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/215147, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 14, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 003 745.3 (DE), filed on May 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0071639 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. F03D 7/04 (2006.01); F03D 17/00 (2016.01); F03D 7/02 (2006.01); G05B 23/02 (2006.01)
CPC F03D 7/047 (2013.01) [F03D 17/00 (2016.05); F03D 7/0284 (2013.01); F05B 2270/32 (2013.01); G05B 23/0291 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a wind turbine comprising a management system for controlling the wind turbine according to prescribed rules and a safety system, separate from the management system, for monitoring the wind turbine on the basis of operational characteristic values, wherein the safety system transfers the wind turbine to a safe plant state independently of the management system in response to safety-critical operational characteristic values violating safety parameters stored in the safety system, wherein in order to change at least one safety parameter of the safety parameters stored in the safety system a parameter block comprising the at least one safety parameter and at least two safety features is supplied to the safety system and accepted by the safety system for the monitoring only after a positive check on all of the safety features, wherein the check on at least one of the safety features requires comparison against check information available directly on the wind turbine and the parameter block comprises information about an operating state for which the contained safety parameters are valid and the safety system applies the safety parameters intended for the respective present operating state of the wind turbine.