Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind turbine comprising a rotor with at least one rotor blade, a generator and a speed regulator for regulating the rotational speed of a drive train element by adjusting a generator torque and/or a blade pitch angle, comprising the steps of: determining the angular speed of the drive train element through the time derivative of an angular position signal, determining the angular acceleration of the drive train element, presetting desired values for the generator torque and/or the blade pitch angle taking into account the angular speed of the drive train element and the angular acceleration of the drive train element, wherein the angular acceleration of the drive train element is determined from the angular position signal, wherein a filtering with an upper cut off frequency is performed after the first time derivative of the angular position signal and before a second time derivative of the angular position signal, said upper cut off frequency being tuned to a maximum adjustme

Abstract: An apparatus for positioning a gearbox in a wind energy plant, which gearbox is supported on a bearing structure of the wind energy plant by way of a torque support, wherein the torque support is mounted via at least one uncoupling element, which is arranged between torque support and bearing structure, wherein the torque support features at least one support body and an hydraulic apparatus with at least one hydraulic cylinder, by way of which the position of the support body is adjustable with respect to the bearing structure.

Abstract: A wind energy plant with a rotor hub which is connected to at least one pitch bearing, and with at least one rotor blade, the blade root of which is connectable to the pitch bearing via joining means, wherein a stiffening element is provided, which is arranged between the rotor blade root and the pitch bearing and connected to the same via the joining means.

Abstract: A device for locking a rotor blade of a wind turbine which has an adjustment system for the blade pitch angle of the rotor blade, wherein the adjustment system has a drive which features a motor and a gearbox with an input shaft that bears an external toothing, characterised by a locking pin rotatably mounted around its longitudinal axis, which engages with the external toothing in a locking position, and releases the external toothing in an unlocked position, wherein the locking pin has an end portion whose free end stands eccentric to the longitudinal axis of the locking pin.

Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind farm having two or more wind energy plants, which has a farm control which presets a desired value for an electric variable of the wind farm which has to be generated, wherein the farm control calculates an average increase of the real values of the electric variable for at least one time interval continuously, and compares it with a maximum value for the increase of the electric variable in the respective time interval, the farm control determines a proposal of a desired value for each predetermined time interval, based on a real value of the electric variable which was averaged continuously over the time interval, and in the case that the average increase in the at least one time interval is smaller than the maximum value in the corresponding time interval, the farm control determines a new desired value of the electric variable of the wind farm, with a selection of the desired value as the smallest of several proposals for a desired value.

Abstract: Wind motor with a drive, the input of which is coupled with a rotor shaft, which has a separate mount, characterized in that a holding device is provided between the mount and the drive, which in its mounted state holds the rotor shaft in a predetermined position.

Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind park with a plurality of wind energy plants, which each one have one control unit at a time, which can control and/or adjust the wind energy plant in response to a received desired value for an electric variable, the method having the following steps: a higher order control calculates and/or receives a currently permitted maximum value for the electric variable which the wind park is allowed to provide, the higher order control determines a desired value for the electric variable for each wind energy plant and forwards the same to the wind energy plants, characterized in that the higher order control determines the desired value for each one of the wind energy plants depending on the currently maximum and/or minimum available values of all the wind energy plants.

Abstract: A wind energy plant with a nacelle, a rotor, which features at least one rotor blade adjustable in its blade pitch angle, a central control device for controlling the wind energy plant and a control unit disposed in the rotor for controlling the blade pitch angle of the at least one rotor blade, wherein the central control device and the control unit in the rotor can exchange data with each other via a data link, which comprises at least one first sending and receiving device at the nacelle side and at least one second sending and receiving device at the rotor side, wherein a wireless network connection with a safety-oriented communication protocol is provided between the at least one first sending and receiving device and the at least one second sending and receiving device, and that one monitoring- and communication device at a time is associated to the first and/or the second sending and receiving device, which can monitor the function of the sending and receiving device and initiate a predetermined action

Abstract: A method for operating a wind energy plant having a rotor with at least one rotor blade which has an adjustable pitch angle and a generator coupled to the rotor, and a regulation means which, if a there is a deviation of the rotation speed of the generator or rotor from a rotation speed set point, adjusts the pitch angle of the at least one rotor blade such that the rotation speed set point is reached again, wherein an electrical quantity provided by the wind energy plant by means of a generator and fed into a grid is reduced to a predetermined value in a short time by a reduction of a preset value for the generator, wherein prior to the regulation means noticing a deviation of the rotation speed of the rotor or generator from the rotation speed set point effected by the reduction of the preset value, an adjustment of the at least one rotor blade to a new pitch angle is initiated, wherein at the new pitch angle the rotation speed of the rotor or the generator reaches the rotation speed set point at the reduce

Abstract: Method for torque and pitch control/adjustment for a wind power plant according to the rotational speed according to a characteristic curve, in which at partial load operation in a first section the torque is adjusted up to a first predetermined rotational speed, at partial load operation in a second section the torque is adjusted from the first rotational speed up to a second rotational speed, at full load operation in a third section at least one pitch of a rotor blade is adjusted for rotational speeds greater than the second rotational speed, at full load operation, in a fourth section, the pitch is adjusted for rotational speeds lower than the second rotational speed and greater than the third rotational speed, if a control has been previously carried out according to the third section, and at partial load operation in a fifth section the torque is adjusted for rotational speeds lower than the third rotational speed, if a control has been previously carried out according to the fourth section.

Abstract: A wind energy plant having at least one rotor blade with a pitch angle, the pitch angle being adjustable by means of a pitch controller, and a generator converter unit, at least one electrical quantity of the generator converter unit being adjustable by means of a converter controller, wherein the wind energy plant has a power train with a rotor having the at least one rotor blade, the rotor being disposed at a front end of the power train and the power train leading to the generator converter unit, wherein a first rotation speed detection unit is provided at the power train near the front end of the power train and a second rotation speed detection unit is provided at the power train near the generator converter unit, wherein the measured rotation speed nrot of the first rotation speed detection unit is applied as an input variable to the pitch controller and the measured rotation speed of the second rotation speed detection unit is applied as an input variable to the converter controller.

Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind energy plant with a double-fed asynchronous generator which has a mode of operation as a phase shifter, in which reactive power is fed into the electric power supply grid, the method having the following steps: the stator of the asynchronous generator is short-circuited, the asynchronous generator is run-up to a predetermined rotational speed from a working rotational speed range via a converter after running up, the short-circuit in the stator is cancelled, the double-fed asynchronous generator is synchronised with the electric power supply grid, and it is driven for the generation of reactive power.

Abstract: A wind energy plant tower with a tower portion made of a concrete material and a steel-made tubular tower segment, which has on its foot a plurality of connection bores for the connection to the tower portion made of the concrete material, wherein the tower portion made of the concrete material has a head portion with a plurality of openings and a plurality of anchor bolts are provided, which can be fastened after the completion of the tower portion made of the concrete material each at a time in or on one of the connection bores on the foot of the steel-made tower segment and one of the openings in the head portion.

Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind energy plant, which features a wind velocity measurement device and a device for the detection of a mechanical load, with the following steps: measuring a wind velocity with the wind velocity measurement device, detecting a mechanical load with the device for the detection of a mechanical load, determining an estimated value for the wind velocity, based on the determined mechanical load, comparing the wind velocity measured by means of the wind velocity measurement device with the estimated value.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a wind energy plant with a rotor blade control, a torque control and a control unit. A power limited mode of operation presets a desired value for the fed power, which is smaller than the rated value for the plant. On a threshold rotational speed, the torque is lowered through the torque control such that the preset desired value for the power is not exceeded. The threshold rotational speed, depending on the preset desired value for the moment (Mdesired), is set to a value smaller than the rated value for the rotational speed.

Abstract: The invention is related to a rotor shaft for a wind energy plant, wherein the rotor shaft is at least partially hollow, comprising a line pipe, extending in the interior of the rotating rotor shaft and being stationary and accommodating electric lines, a transmission device, arranged at least partially in the rotor shaft, for the electric connection between a stationary nacelle and a rotating rotor of the wind energy plant, wherein the transmission device features a first body, stationary and connected to the line pipe, and a second body rotating with the rotor shaft, and wherein there is an electric sliding contact between the first and the second body, a casing surrounding the transmission device and formed separately from the second body, which is connected to the rotor shaft and/or adapted to be connected to a rotor hub of the wind energy plant, and which rotates with the rotor shaft, and a torque transmitting connection between the casing and the second body of the transmission device.

Abstract: A wind energy plant with a rotor, which is connected to a gearbox and/or a generator via a rotor shaft, wherein the rotor shaft is bearing mounted on a carrier unit via two taper roller bearings in an O arrangement, characterised in that each taper roller bearing has an inner and an outer race, wherein the inner races and the outer races are secured in their distance to each other in the axial direction with respect to the rotational axis of the rotor shaft via an adjustment device.

Abstract: The present invention is related to method for installing a rotor hub on a rotor shaft of a wind energy plant, in which the following steps are consecutively performed: at the end of the rotor shaft (10) facing the rotor hub (12), a locking disk (18) is attached on the rotor shaft (10), which has a multiplicity of bores for the preliminary attachment of the rotor hub (12), for installing it, the rotor hub (12) is made to sit close to the locking disk (18), if required, the bores in the locking disk (18) are made to overlap with corresponding bores in the rotor hub (12) by rotating the rotor shaft (10) and/or the rotor hub (12), starting from the rotor shaft side, the rotor hub (12) is preliminarily screwed together with the locking disk (18) through the bores of the locking disk (18) and of the rotor hub (12), and starting from the interior space (42) of the rotor hub, the rotor hub (12) is definitely screwed together with the locking disk (18) and the rotor shaft.

Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the rotational speed in a wind energy plant, with a rotor shaft which is driven by the rotor and runs out into a gear unit, and with a generator shaft, which connects an output shaft of the gear unit with a generator/converter unit, characterized by a first rotational speed detection unit on the rotor shaft and a second rotational speed detection unit on the generator shaft, wherein each rotational speed detection unit has at least two rotational speed sensors working independently from each other, an analyzing unit for the rotational speed, to which the measured signals of the rotational speed detection units are applied and which generates an error signal for a rotational overspeed when a certain maximum value for the rotational speed is exceeded.

Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind energy plant, with a synchronous generator, a superimposition gearbox, which is connected between rotor shaft and generator shaft, and a drive unit, wherein before connecting the synchronous generator to the electric grid, the drive unit drives the synchronous generator until the same has reached its rated rotational speed.