Patents by Inventor Jair CASSOLI

Jair CASSOLI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11949352
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling, by means of field-oriented closed-loop control, an active rectifier which is electrically connected to a stator of a generator of a wind turbine. The generator has a rotor which is mounted so as to be rotatable about the stator and comprises the steps of determining a mechanical position of the rotor with respect to the stator, predefining DC components of rotor-fixed d and q coordinates for at least one 3-phase stator current, determining an AC component for the q coordinate at least as a function of the mechanical position of the rotor, modulating the determined AC component of the q coordinate onto the predefined DC component of the q coordinate, so that a modulated q coordinate is produced which has a DC component and an AC component, and controlling the active rectifier at least as a function of the modulated q coordinate and preferably as a function of the d coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Gertjegerdes, Jair Cassoli
  • Patent number: 11898539
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a wind power system, that is to say a wind power installation or a wind farm comprising a plurality of installations, for feeding electrical power from wind into an electrical supply grid, and for damping low-frequency oscillations, in particular subsynchronous resonances, in the grid, wherein the grid has a line voltage with a nominal line frequency, wherein a damping control with a closed control circuit is used for damping the low-frequency oscillations, and the damping control for damping the low-frequency oscillations controls a feed-in of electrical power into the grid using a wind system control, the damping control is designed for a controlled system comprising the grid, the wind power system, and the wind system control, or parts thereof, wherein the damping control is designed such that it prevents and/or damps weakly damped modes in the closed control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Aramis Schwanka Trevisan, Angelo Mendonca, Jair Cassoli
  • Patent number: 11585320
    Abstract: A method for controlling a multiphase separately excited synchronous generator in a wind turbine is provided. The generator has a stator and an armature having an excitation input, connected to an excitation controller, for inputting an excitation current or an excitation voltage. The stator has a stator output, connected to a rectifier, for delivering stator currents. The rectifier is controllable to control the stator currents by detecting a speed of the armature or rotor, determining a setpoint power to be delivered by the generator or the turbine based on the speed, determining an excitation current or voltage based on the detected speed and determined setpoint power, inputting the excitation current or voltage by excitation controller at the excitation input, determining the stator currents as setpoint stator currents based on the speed and the setpoint power, and controlling the rectifier to set the stator currents to the setpoint stator currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Jair Cassoli, Sönke Engelken, Amgad Eldeib
  • Patent number: 11545832
    Abstract: A method for controlling a wind farm to damp low-frequency electrical oscillations, in particular subsynchronous resonances, in an electrical supply grid having a grid voltage with a nominal grid frequency is provided. The wind farm comprises at least one wind turbine connected to the electrical supply grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Aramis Schwanka Trevisan, Angelo Mendonca, Jair Cassoli, Johannes Brombach
  • Publication number: 20220360139
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling an active rectifier connected to a stator of a wind power installation using field-oriented control. The generator comprises a stator having an axis of rotation around which the rotor is mounted. The method includes predefining rotor-fixed d and q coordinates for at least one 3-phase stator current of the generator and determining at least one alternating component for the rotor-fixed d and/or q coordinate depending on a detected amplitude and detected phase position of an electrical power oscillation on the generator and taking account of a rotor position representing a mechanical position of the rotor in relation to the stator. The method includes adding the alternating component for the rotor-fixed d and/or q coordinate to the rotor-fixed d and/or q coordinate to form a modified d and/or q coordinate, and controlling the active rectifier at least depending on the modified d and/or q coordinate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jair CASSOLI, Roberto ROSSO
  • Publication number: 20210285420
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a wind power system, that is to say a wind power installation or a wind farm comprising a plurality of installations, for feeding electrical power from wind into an electrical supply grid, and for damping low-frequency oscillations, in particular subsynchronous resonances, in the grid, wherein the grid has a line voltage with a nominal line frequency, wherein a damping control with a closed control circuit is used for damping the low-frequency oscillations, and the damping control for damping the low-frequency oscillations controls a feed-in of electrical power into the grid using a wind system control, the damping control is designed for a controlled system comprising the grid, the wind power system, and the wind system control, or parts thereof, wherein the damping control is designed such that it prevents and/or damps weakly damped modes in the closed control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Aramis SCHWANKA TREVISAN, Angelo MENDONCA, Jair CASSOLI
  • Patent number: 11043817
    Abstract: A method for feeding electrical power into a three phase electrical power supply network at a network connection point, in particular by means of a wind power installation, using an inverter, comprising the following steps: detecting an electrical network voltage, in particular at the network connection point, determining a virtual generator voltage using a machine model that emulates a behavior of a synchronous machine, preparing the detected network voltage for comparison with the virtual genera-tor voltage, predefining a setpoint current as predefinition for an infeed current as a function of the virtual generator voltage and as a function of the network voltage prepared for comparison, and generating the infeed current depending on the setpoint current and feeding the generated infeed current at the network connection point into the electrical power supply network, wherein preparing the detected network voltage for comparison with the virtual generator voltage comprises transforming the detected network v
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Jair Cassoli, Truong Duc Trung, Roberto Rosso, Sönke Engelken
  • Publication number: 20210159704
    Abstract: A method for controlling a wind farm to damp low-frequency electrical oscillations, in particular subsynchronous resonances, in an electrical supply grid having a grid voltage with a nominal grid frequency is provided. The wind farm comprises at least one wind turbine connected to the electrical supply grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Aramis SCHWANKA TREVISAN, Angelo MENDONCA, Jair CASSOLI, Johannes BROMBACH
  • Publication number: 20210119563
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling, by means of field-oriented closed-loop control, an active rectifier which is electrically connected to a stator of a generator of a wind turbine. The generator has a rotor which is mounted so as to be rotatable about the stator and comprises the steps of determining a mechanical position of the rotor with respect to the stator, predefining DC components of rotor-fixed d and q coordinates for at least one 3-phase stator current, determining an AC component for the q coordinate at least as a function of the mechanical position of the rotor, modulating the determined AC component of the q coordinate onto the predefined DC component of the q coordinate, so that a modulated q coordinate is produced which has a DC component and an AC component, and controlling the active rectifier at least as a function of the modulated q coordinate and preferably as a function of the d coordinate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Stefan GERTJEGERDES, Jair CASSOLI
  • Publication number: 20200350842
    Abstract: A method for controlling a multiphase separately excited synchronous generator in a wind turbine is provided. The generator has a stator and an armature having an excitation input, connected to an excitation controller, for inputting an excitation current or an excitation voltage. The stator has a stator output, connected to a rectifier, for delivering stator currents. The rectifier is controllable to control the stator currents by detecting a speed of the armature or rotor, determining a setpoint power to be delivered by the generator or the turbine based on the speed, determining an excitation current or voltage based on the detected speed and determined setpoint power, inputting the excitation current or voltage by excitation controller at the excitation input, determining the stator currents as setpoint stator currents based on the speed and the setpoint power, and controlling the rectifier to set the stator currents to the setpoint stator currents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto ROSSO, Jair CASSOLI, Sönke ENGELKEN, Amgad ELDEIB
  • Publication number: 20200091728
    Abstract: A method for feeding electrical power into a three phase electrical power supply network at a network connection point, in particular by means of a wind power installation, using an inverter, comprising the following steps: detecting an electrical network voltage, in particular at the network connection point, determining a virtual generator voltage using a machine model that emulates a behavior of a synchronous machine, preparing the detected network voltage for comparison with the virtual genera-tor voltage, predefining a setpoint current as predefinition for an infeed current as a function of the virtual generator voltage and as a function of the network voltage prepared for comparison, and generating the infeed current depending on the setpoint current and feeding the generated infeed current at the network connection point into the electrical power supply network, wherein preparing the detected network voltage for comparison with the virtual generator voltage comprises transforming the detected network v
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Jair CASSOLI, Truong Duc TRUNG, Roberto ROSSO, Sönke ENGELKEN