EP4026411A1 - Wind turbine with a cabinet cooling system - Google Patents
Wind turbine with a cabinet cooling systemInfo
- Publication number
- EP4026411A1 EP4026411A1 EP20824092.9A EP20824092A EP4026411A1 EP 4026411 A1 EP4026411 A1 EP 4026411A1 EP 20824092 A EP20824092 A EP 20824092A EP 4026411 A1 EP4026411 A1 EP 4026411A1
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- Prior art keywords
- cabinet
- cooling system
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- wind turbine
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Classifications
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
- H05K7/00—Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus
- H05K7/20—Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating
- H05K7/2089—Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating for power electronics, e.g. for inverters for controlling motor
- H05K7/20909—Forced ventilation, e.g. on heat dissipaters coupled to components
Definitions
- the invention concerns a wind turbine with a cabinet cooling system. Further, the invention relates to a method for manu facturing a cooling system of a wind turbine.
- Cabinet cooling systems are broadly used for tempering tech nical devices or rooms without any central cooling or venti lation system.
- a cabinet cooling system is used to control the temperature of electrical components in side a nacelle of a wind turbine.
- the present invention particularly focusses on a cabinet cooling system of a wind turbine.
- the wind turbine according to the invention comprises nacelle with a cabinet cooling system.
- the cabinet cooling system comprises a communicating cooling ventilation air ducting tube system. This means that all parts of the air ducting tube system are joined to each other. Further the cabinet cooling system includes one single central fan. Furthermore, the cabinet cooling system comprises at least one inlet and at least one outlet. The at least one inlet may comprise a nozzle for creating an inlet jet stream for directly cooling a hot component inside the cabinet.
- the cabinet cooling sys tem furthermore, comprises an exhaust duct system connected to the at least one outlet.
- the advantage of the cabinet cooling system according to the invention is the much higher efficiency of the fan. Since it is only a single fan, the size of the fan is much higher and the efficiency can be increased to between 50 and 70 %.
- the fan creates a common negative pressure in the channel system of the ducting tubes.
- the ducts may be sized such that electrical cabinet compartments each receive the requested airflow. For compartments, which used to have an overpressure with the fan blowing directly onto a hot compo nent, the inlet is replaced with a nozzle design, creating a jet stream for local improved cooling.
- the exhaust duct sys tem is used for rejecting the hot air to outside the nacelle canopy through this exhaust duct system.
- a cabinet cooling sys tem is provided. Further, a communicating cooling ventilation air ducting tube system through the cabinet is installed in the cabinet. Moreover, the communicating cooling ventilation air ducting tube system is provided with at least one inlet and at least one outlet. Furthermore, an exhaust duct system is mounted on the top of the cabinet and is connected to the at least one outlet. Moreover, one single central fan is in serted in the air ducting tube system. The at least one inlet may be provided with a nozzle for creating an inlet jet stream for directly cooling a hot component into the cabinet, which is installed in the cabinet.
- the method of manufactur ing a cabinet cooling system shares the advantages of the cabinet cooling system according to the invention. Particularly advantageous embodiments and features of the invention are given by the dependent claims, as revealed in the following description. Features of different claim categories may be combined as appropriate to give further embodiments not described herein.
- the cabinet cooling system further comprises a silencer for re ducing overall noise.
- the central fan of the cabinet cooling system is positioned at an end portion of the duct. Hence hot air of all parts of the air duct systems can be sucked out of the cabinet .
- FIG 1 shows a schematic perspective view of a cabinet cooling system according to prior art
- FIG 2 shows a top view on the cabinet cooling system accord ing to the prior art of FIG 1,
- FIG 3 shows a side view on the cabinet cooling system accord ing to the prior art of FIG 1 and FIG 2,
- FIG 4 shows a schematic perspective depiction of a cabinet cooling system according to an embodiment of the invention
- FIG 5 shows a top view of the cabinet cooling system of FIG
- FIG 6 shows a side view of the cabinet cooling system of FIG 4 and FIG 5,
- FIG 7 shows a flow chart depicting a method for manufacturing a cabinet cooling system according to an embodiment of the invention
- FIG 8 shows a schematic cross section of a wind turbine ac cording to an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG 1 a schematic perspective view of a cabinet cooling system 10 according to prior art is shown.
- the cabinet cooling system 10 comprises a cabinet 10a, which contains all the cooling equipment.
- the cabinet cooling system 10 also includes air inlets la, lb.
- a first air inlet la which is located on the lower right side of the cabinet 10a, is designed as a fan inlet, wherein a fan 3a (shown in FIG 2) is directly mounted in the air inlet frame thus blowing air A onto a technical component 4 (shown in FIG 2) to be cooled with overpressure.
- Two second air in lets lb are shown in the lower mid side and the lower left side of the cabinet 10a.
- a first air outlet 2a which corresponds to the first air inlet la, is located at the upper right side of the cabinet 10a. Furthermore, two second air outlets 2b are mounted on the upper mid side and the upper left side of the cabinet 10a.
- the second air out lets 2b are constructed as fan outlets, which means that there are fans 3B (shown in FIG 2) in the outlet frame and thus blowing air A out of the cabinet 10a.
- FIG 2 a top view of the cabinet cooling system 10 accord ing to the prior art of FIG 1 is shown in detail.
- the cabinet cooling system 10 compris es a first fan 3a, which is installed in the first air inlet la.
- the first air inlet la is positioned at the right side of the cabinet 10a.
- the cabinet cooling system 10 also comprises some additional fans 3b at the air outlets 2b, which are shown on the left side and the mid side of the cab inet 10a.
- the additional fans 3b are mounted on the top side of the cabinet 10a.
- the first air inlet la blows air A from the environment of the cabinet 10a into the interior of the cabinet 10a and directly cools the technical unit 4.
- the additional fans 3b suck air through the second air inlets lb such that compartments 5 containing some electronic systems 6 are also cooled. After flowing through the compartments 5, the cooling air A is sucked out of the cabinet 10a by the fans 3b on the top of the cabinet 10a. As can be seen from FIG 2, each of the fans 3a, 3b is assigned to a separated portion of the cabinet 10a.
- FIG 3 a side view of the cabinet cooling system 10 accord ing to prior art of FIG 1 and FIG 2 is shown in detail.
- the air A sucked through the first air inlet la is pressed to the technical unit 4 and further the heated air is transported upwards upside and is exhausted through the first air outlet 2a on the upper side of the cab inet 10a.
- the additional air fan 3b illustrated by dashed lines, is completely separated from the air stream, which cools the technical unit 4 and is merely illustrated in FIG 3 for a better orientation.
- FIG 4 a schematic perspective view of a cabinet cooling system 40 according to an embodiment of the invention is shown.
- the cabinet cooling system 40 comprises a cabinet 40a, which contains all the cooling equipment and the technical device to be cooled. Further, the cabinet cooling system 40 includes a central shared cooling fan 45, which is positioned on the upper left side in FIG 4.
- the cabinet cooling system 40 further comprises a first inlet 41a, which is used for a component 4, which has to be cooled by an overpressure for directly cooling the component 4. Therefore, the first inlet 41a has a nozzle 43, which creates a jet stream for local im proved cooling. Further, the cabinet cooling system 40 com prises two second air inlets 42a at the lower left and mid side of the cabinet cooling system 40 without a nozzle.
- the cabinet cooling system 40 comprises a first air outlet 41b at the upper right side of the cabinet.
- the cabi net cooling system 40 furthermore, includes two second air outlets 42b at the top side of the cabinet 40a.
- the cabinet cooling system 40 includes an exhaust duct system 44, which is mounted in front of and above the three air outlets 41b, 42b.
- the exhaust duct system comprises an outlet air duct 44a, which leads the air A from the first outlet 41b up side to the top side of the cabinet cooling system 40.
- the central fan 45 is mounted, which sucks the air A out of the cabinet 40a and re jects the hot air to outside.
- FIG 5 a top view of the cabinet cooling system 40 of FIG 4 is shown.
- the cabinet 40a of the cabinet cooling system 40 comprises one single common interi or space, through which cooling air A coming from the air in lets 41a, 42a flows.
- the first air inlet 41a is provided with a nozzle 43, which increases pressure of the sucked air A for cooling the hot technical unit 4.
- the air A flows upwards and leaves the cabinet 10a through a first outlet 41b and further flows through an out let air duct 44a, which is part of the exhaust duct system 44 mentioned above, onto the top of the cabinet 10a.
- the heated air is pressed out by the central fan 45.
- the additional air inlet 42a also takes in some cooling air A, which streams through the compartments 5 on the mid side and the left side of the cabinet 40a. All the air sucked into the cabinet 10a is pressed out of the cabinet 10a by the central fan 45.
- FIG 6 a side view of the cabinet cooling system 40 of FIG 4 and FIG 5 is illustrated.
- FIG 6 illustrates the flowing path of the cooling air, which is sucked into the cabinet 40a through the nozzle 43 of the first air inlet 41a.
- the air A flows around the technical unit 4, is thereby heated up, rises up onto the up per portion of the cabinet, flows through the first air out let 41b and through the exhaust duct system 44, where the central fan 45 is positioned.
- FIG 7 a flow chart 700 is shown depicting a method for producing a cooling system 40 according to an embodiment of the invention.
- a cabinet 40a is provided for the cooling system 40.
- a communicating cooling ventilation air ducting tube system is assembled to the cabinet.
- one inlet 41a with a noz zle 43 for creating an overpressure for directly cooling a hot component into the cabinet is provided.
- an exhaust duct system 44 on the top of the cabinet and in step 7.V one single central fan 45 is inserted in the air ducting tube system 44.
- FIG 8 a schematic cross view of a wind turbine 80 accord ing to an embodiment of the invention is shown.
- the wind tur bine 80 comprises a nacelle 81.
- the nacelle 81 includes the cabinet cooling system 40 according to an embodiment of the invention.
- the exhaust duct 44 is connected to the exterior of the nacelle 81 such that heat is conveyed out of the nacelle 81 and the cooling efficiency of the cabinet cooling system is improved.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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| EP19212304.0A EP3829277A1 (en) | 2019-11-28 | 2019-11-28 | Cabinet cooling system |
| PCT/EP2020/083137 WO2021105087A1 (en) | 2019-11-28 | 2020-11-24 | Wind turbine with a cabinet cooling system |
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| EP4026411A1 true EP4026411A1 (en) | 2022-07-13 |
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| EP20824092.9A Withdrawn EP4026411A1 (en) | 2019-11-28 | 2020-11-24 | Wind turbine with a cabinet cooling system |
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