Abstract: A control apparatus 20 that is configured to control driving of a power generation apparatus including a motor and a power generator, the control apparatus including a processor 200 executing: a process of calculating a first adjustment force command value used for controlling the motor in accordance with a deviation between an observed value and a reference value of a rotation speed of the power generator; a process of calculating a correction value for compensating for a delay of an electric output of the power generator; and a process of calculating a correction value for compensating for a delay of an electric output of the power generator; and a process of calculating a second adjustment force command value used for controlling the motor by adding the first adjustment force command value and the correction value.

Abstract: A control device controls a temperature of a shaft seal portion provided around a rotating shaft of a rotating machine to an appropriate temperature by adjusting an amount of the cooling air to be supplied to the shaft seal portion. The control device calculates a sensitivity indicated using the temperature of the shaft seal portion with respect to a flow rate of the cooling air supplied to the shaft seal portion and controls the flow rate of the cooling air so that the sensitivity has a predetermined target value on the basis of the calculated sensitivity. When the sensitivity is calculated, the flow rate is varied in a predetermined range having a certain flow rate as a center. The sensitivity of the temperature at the flow rate as a center is calculated from the variation in the temperature of the shaft seal portion with respect to the variation in the flow rate.

Abstract: An abnormality detection device that detects an abnormality of a target device includes a processor that executes a process of acquiring a plurality of types of measured values of the target device, a process of calculating Mahalanobis distances of the acquired plurality of types of measured values, a process of extracting the plurality of Mahalanobis distances calculated in a past predetermined period from a point in time of evaluation of the target device and calculating a moving average value of a square value of each of the extracted Mahalanobis distances, and a process of determining whether or not an abnormality has occurred in the target device on the basis of the moving average value.

Abstract: A prediction device that predicts an output of a prediction target in the future includes a processor and a recording device that is connected to the processor and stores an input measurement value that is a measured value of an input of the prediction target and an output measurement value that is a measured value of the output. The processor executes: an identification process of identifying a first coefficient for the input using a moving average filter from a plurality of input measurement values and a plurality of output measurement values stored in the past; and a prediction process of predicting the output of the prediction target in the future on the basis of a prediction model formed from the input measurement values, the output measurement values, and the first coefficient.

Abstract: An abnormality monitoring apparatus for a wind farm includes: a parameter obtaining part configured to obtain a power generation parameter related to power generation of the wind turbine power generating apparatus and a strain parameter measured by a sensor mounted to a wind turbine blade of the wind turbine power generating apparatus; a member candidate extraction part configured to extract at least two of the wind turbine power generating apparatuses in which a correlation between the power generation parameters of the at least two wind turbine power generating apparatuses is not smaller than a first predetermined value, and a correlation between the strain parameters of the at least two wind turbine power generating apparatuses is not smaller than a second predetermined value; a monitoring group setting part configured to set at least two of the wind turbine power generating apparatuses; and a group monitoring part configured to perform abnormality monitoring.

Abstract: A wind turbine group power generation amount evaluation device includes a criterial correlation acquisition unit which acquires a criterial correlation between a target power generation amount by a target wind turbine group and a reference power generation amount by a reference wind turbine group, a set value changing unit configured to change a set value of an output control parameter of at least one of the wind turbines in the target wind turbine group, a power generation amount acquisition unit configured to acquire the target power generation amount and the reference power generation amount measured after a change in the set value, a target power generation amount estimation unit configured to calculate, an estimated value before the change of the target power generation amount, and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a target power generation amount based on a comparison between the target power generation amount and the estimated value.

Abstract: An abnormality detecting apparatus that is configured to detect a presence or absence of an abnormality rotating machine includes a processor that is configured to execute a measured value acquisition process of acquiring, on the basis of a detection signal output from a vibration sensor that is configured to measure vibration caused by rotation of the rotating machine, a measured value including an amplitude and a phase of the vibration; a Mahalanobis distance calculation process of calculating a Mahalanobis distance of the measured value acquired at a time point at which the rotating machine is evaluated on the basis of a unit space configured with a plurality of measured values acquired at a plurality of past time points; and a determination process of determining that an abnormality has occurred in the rotating machine in case where the calculated Mahalanobis distance exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A power source includes: a generator; a turbine device that drives and rotates the generator; and a control device that: monitors a rotation speed of the generator; calculates a first adjusting power instruction value corresponding to a deviation between a reference value and an observed value of the rotation speed of the generator; acquires an adjusting power amplification coefficient from an external device; calculates a second adjusting power instruction value indicating a degree of increase of the adjusting power, based on the first adjusting power instruction value and the adjusting power amplification coefficient; amplifies the adjusting power based on the second adjusting power instruction value; and outputs the amplified adjusting power to the turbine device to adjust power supply from the generator and reduces fluctuation of frequency in a power transmission and distribution system.

Abstract: A method of detecting a damage of a wind turbine blade of a wind turbine rotor includes: a light input step of inputting light into a fiber-optic sensor mounted to the wind turbine blade; a light detection step of detecting reflection light from the grating portion; an obtaining step of obtaining a wavelength fluctuation index representing a fluctuation amount of a wavelength of the reflection light detected in the light detection step; and a detection step. The detection step includes detecting the presence or the absence of the damage of the wind turbine blade based on the wavelength fluctuation index taking account of a correlation between the wavelength fluctuation index of the wind turbine blade and a load index related to a load applied to the wind turbine blade, or a correlation between the wavelength fluctuation index and a temperature index related to a temperature of the wind turbine blade.

Abstract: An abnormality detection device includes a processor and a storage unit connected to the processor.

Abstract: An information-processing method is provided, including a step of specifying first data clusters to which the first data each belongs and second data clusters to which the second data each belongs; a step of extracting the first data belonging to one of the first data clusters and the second data acquired at a corresponding time as correspondent data; a step of totalizing the number of pieces of correspondent data included in each of the second data clusters and calculating a total value for each cluster for the second data; and a step of specifying the second data clusters which are transition destinations of the correspondent data in a subsequent time and counting the number of pieces of transition destination data which is the correspondent data transitioning from each of the second data clusters which are transition sources to the second data clusters which are the transition destinations.

Abstract: A control device (70) of a plant which controls operation amounts of a plurality of types of equipment constituting the plant, the control device includes a prediction model deriving unit (71) that derives a prediction model from which a monitoring target value is output, an adjustment amount calculating unit (72) that calculates adjustment amounts of operation amounts in the case where the monitoring target value becomes a desired value and calculates differences between the operation amounts of existing control and the calculated operation amounts as first adjustment amounts, a constraint condition setting unit (73) that sets constraint conditions based on a measurement value and operation conditions of the plant 1, and an operation amount calculating unit (74) that calculates second adjustment amounts to which the constraint conditions are applied and calculates a plurality of the adjusted operation amounts based on each of the calculated second adjustment amounts.

Abstract: A power source includes: a generator; a turbine device that drives and rotates the generator; and a control device that: monitors a rotation speed of the generator; calculates a first adjusting power instruction value corresponding to a deviation between a reference value and an observed value of the rotation speed of the generator; acquires an adjusting power amplification coefficient from an external device; calculates a second adjusting power instruction value indicating a degree of increase of the adjusting power, based on the first adjusting power instruction value and the adjusting power amplification coefficient; amplifies the adjusting power based on the second adjusting power instruction value; and outputs the amplified adjusting power to the turbine device to adjust power supply from the generator and reduces fluctuation of frequency in a power transmission and distribution system.

Abstract: An adjusting power measuring apparatus includes: a processor that: acquires an active power measurement value of active power exchanged at a connection point between a targeted power grid and an adjusting power supply source that supplies adjusting power to the targeted power grid, acquires a frequency measurement value of frequency at the connection point, calculates, based on the active power measurement value and the frequency measurement value, a first adjusting power coefficient indicating a degree of influence that fluctuation in the active power has on fluctuation in the frequency, calculates, based on the first adjusting power coefficient and a fluctuation measurement value of the fluctuation in the frequency, the adjusting power supplied from the adjusting power supply source to the targeted power grid, and determines, based on the calculated adjusting power, compensation to be paid to an owner of the adjusting power supply source.

Abstract: A method for detecting damage of a wind turbine blade of a wind turbine rotor having at least one wind turbine blade comprises: a light incident step of allowing light to enter an optical fiber sensor being mounted on each of the wind turbine blade and having a diffraction grating part having a refractive index which is periodically varied in a longitudinal direction of the diffraction grating part; a light detection step of detecting reflected light from the diffraction grating part; an obtaining step of obtaining, from a temporal change of a wavelength of the reflected light received in the light receiving step, a wavelength variation index representing a variation amount of the wavelength; and a damage determination step of determining presence or absence of a damage of the wind turbine blade on the basis of the wavelength variation index calculated in the obtaining step.

Abstract: An abnormality monitoring apparatus for a wind farm includes: a parameter obtaining part configured to obtain a power generation parameter related to power generation of the wind turbine power generating apparatus and a strain parameter measured by a sensor mounted to a wind turbine blade of the wind turbine power generating apparatus; a member candidate extraction part configured to extract at least two of the wind turbine power generating apparatuses in which a correlation between the power generation parameters of the at least two wind turbine power generating apparatuses is not smaller than a first predetermined value, and a correlation between the strain parameters of the at least two wind turbine power generating apparatuses is not smaller than a second predetermined value; a monitoring group setting part configured to set at least two of the wind turbine power generating apparatuses; and a group monitoring part configured to perform abnormality monitoring.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation device for an internal combustion engine includes: an opening command signal output unit 52 which outputs an opening command signal in relation to an EGR control valve on the basis of an operating condition of the internal combustion engine; a variation component separation unit 54 which separates the valve opening command signal from the opening command signal output unit 52 into a basic component and a variation component generated so as to be superimposed on the basic component; a variation component determination unit 56 which determines whether the EGR control valve is in a steady state or a transient state on the basis of a magnitude of the variation component separated by the variation component separation unit 54; and an EGR control valve diagnosis device 58 that performs an abnormality diagnosis on the EGR control valve when the variation component determination unit determines that the EGR control valve is in the steady state.

Abstract: A method of detecting a damage of a wind turbine blade of a wind turbine rotor includes: a light input step of inputting light into a fiber-optic sensor mounted to the wind turbine blade; a light detection step of detecting reflection light from the grating portion; an obtaining step of obtaining a wavelength fluctuation index representing a fluctuation amount of a wavelength of the reflection light detected in the light detection step; and a detection step. The detection step includes detecting the presence or the absence of the damage of the wind turbine blade based on the wavelength fluctuation index taking account of a correlation between the wavelength fluctuation index of the wind turbine blade and a load index related to a load applied to the wind turbine blade, or a correlation between the wavelength fluctuation index and a temperature index related to a temperature of the wind turbine blade.

Abstract: A control apparatus 57 is a 2-input, 2-output integral-type optimal servo system in which intake air amount and intake oxygen concentration are used as control quantities (y1, y2) and the degree of opening of a control valve of an exhaust gas recirculation apparatus and the degree of opening of a control valve of a supercharger equipped with a variable flow rate mechanism are used as manipulated quantities (u1, u2), and includes an output feedback system. The control apparatus (57) is provided with an EGR valve opening degree unit (70) and an opening rate valve of the supercharger. Each of the control units includes a non-interference controller (64) for eliminating interference between the manipulated quantity for the control valve of the exhaust gas recirculation apparatus and the manipulated quantity for the control valve of the supercharger equipped with the variable flow rate mechanism.

Abstract: A control device of a control valve used for an intake air-gas system of an engine. The device includes, but is not limited to: the control valve which is an intake air throttle valve provided in the intake air-gas system provided in the intake air-gas system of the engine to control the flow rate of intake air to the engine, or an EGR valve provided in the intake air-gas system of the engine to control the flow rate of EGR gas to the engine; and a control unit which determines a target opening of the control valve in response to the operation conditions of the engine, and controls the opening of the control valve so that the opening conforms with the target opening.