The Windtec™ Advantage: Complete customer-specific development of high quality and highly efficient wind turbines from an experienced and independent company
Windtec Designs and Supplies the Complete Control System
Due to Windtec's unique expertise in this field, the best integrated control systems and designs are available for turbine manufacturers.
- ONE interface only -- converter, yaw and pitch system can be controlled and configured by the programmable logic controller (PLC)
- No additional software needed for turbine reconfiguration
- Easy and FAST modification of the PLC algorithms if needed (via remote access)
- Unnecessary parts and functions have been removed
- Very simply, an effective and highly reliable solution
The scope of a complete control system is as follows:
- Turbine control
- Pitch control
- Converter control
- SCADA system
- "Source code light"
- Complete hardware solution featuring:
Industrial controller WT97-98
Decentralized IO groups with bus connections
- Communication features:
Ethernet 100 Mbaud between PLCs
Profi-bus and/or CAN-bus for IO connections
Connections to customer or service department by smart router with firewall
Flexible visualization with wind park management, failure management and service management
- Software features:
Meets standard IEC 61131-3
All software is programmed to structured text
Online remote programming
Very special features of a Windtec supplied control system:
- Advanced controllers for drivetrain damping
- Active tower damping by acceleration measurement
- Individual pitch control for effective load reduction
- Anti power-dip algorithms
- Additional algorithms to increase availability by reducing output power at high environmental temperatures or minor failures
- Intelligent automatic reset functions
