US 12,486,824 B2
Wind farm system comprising improved wind guide configuration
Peter Grabau, Kolding (DK); and Manuel Agustín Alcocer Ramón-Laca, Madrid (ES)
Assigned to Winnowave SL, Madrid (ES)
Appl. No. 18/570,743
Filed by Winnowave SL, Madrid (ES)
PCT Filed Jun. 14, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/066237
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 15, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/263478, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 22, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202100637 (DK), filed on Jun. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0392742 A1, Nov. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. F03D 1/04 (2006.01); F03D 9/00 (2016.01)
CPC F03D 1/046 (2023.08) [F03D 9/007 (2013.01); F05B 2220/708 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wind farm system comprising: at least three rows of wind turbines, each row comprising at least three wind turbines positioned adjacent to each other within each row, such row facing the predominant wind direction and located one row behind another considering the predominant wind direction, and comprising wind guides for at least three of the wind turbines in only one row of the rows for blocking and thereby guiding the wind in front of the wind turbines from a first direction to a second direction;
the wind turbines each comprising a tower and a rotor provided with a number of rotor blades defining a rotor swept area;
the wind guides being ground-based, seabed-based or floating in the sea surface and with a horizontal length and a vertical height defining an area standing vertically within a range of +/−10 degrees;
each of the wind guides defining: the horizontal length between two lateral ends thereof not lower than 1 time the length of a diameter of the rotor of the closest wind turbine;
the vertical height being constant or variable along the horizontal length and not lower than 3 meters and not higher than two thirds of the height of a blade tip of the blades of the closest wind turbine rotor when positioned at its lowermost position;
a horizontal width being constant or variable along the horizontal length and always lower than 1.5 times the vertical height of the wind guides;
each of the wind guides being arranged and configured to block and thereby guide the wind at an altitude below the rotor swept area so the wind behind the wind guides has another direction and speed than the wind in front of the wind guides;
each of the wind guides being arranged and configured to direct the wind to an area in front of and/or behind the wind turbine rotor swept areas so that the wind speed through the rotor swept areas is increased: and
characterized in that the wind guides are located at the last of the at least three rows of the wind turbines in the wind farm system, being such row with wind guides located downwind to another row(s) of the rows of the wind turbines in the wind farm system considering the predominant wind direction;
and characterized in that the horizontal gap between the two closest ends of two adjacent wind guides is less than the sum of the lengths of the rotor diameters of the two wind turbines positioned closest to the two adjacent wind guides.