A temporary damper assembly for use during vertical storage and/or vertical transport of a tower: includes a liquid damper tuned to the natural frequency of vibration of the tower; a tower cover realized to cover an annular upper opening of the tower during storage and/or transport; a mounting interface configured to suspend the liquid damper from the annular upper opening of the tower; and a load transfer interface for the transfer of loads between the liquid damper and the tower. A method of suppressing vortex-induced vibration in a tower during vertical storage and/or vertical transport of the tower is also provided.

Provided is a helical strake set to reduce vortex induced vibrations of a tower, intended to be transported unassembled in a container, including a plurality of identical attachable segments, wherein each segment includes a main body of hollow pyramidal configuration including a wide polygonal end a narrow polygonal end and a narrow polygonal portion firmly attached to the narrow polygonal end, and each segment further including a cap including a wide polygonal portion able to fit in the wide polygonal end by a fastening element, wherein all main bodies and caps are able to be piled in one into another in a container yielding a significant reduction in seaborn transport volume and later assembled on site to reduce vortex induced vibrations of a tower.

Provided is a method of controlling a wind turbine during damping a mechanical oscillation of the wind turbine having a generator system coupled to a rotor at which plural rotor blades are mounted, the method including: generating a damping control signal in dependence of an indication of the oscillation; performing damping control of the generator system based on the damping control signal causing damping related power output variation at an output terminal of the generator system; and controlling an energy storage device connected to the output terminal of the generator system and connected to an output terminal of the wind turbine based on the damping control signal.

A compressor is provided. The compressor compressing and discharging a refrigerant sucked into a cylinder comprises the cylinder configured to form a compressed space of the refrigerant and having a cylindrical shape; a piston configured to reciprocate axially in the cylinder and having a cylindrical shape; an intake valve disposed at a front of the piston; a fixing member disposed outside the piston; a rod comprising one end disposed at the intake valve and configured to extend axially; a first elastic member connected to the fixing member and other side of the rod; a second elastic member disposed to be spaced apart from a rear of the first elastic member and connected to the fixing member and the other side of the rod; and a first spacer insert-injected with the first elastic member and the second elastic member.

A mass damper module (600) for a wind turbine installation comprises: an attachment interface (603a-d) adapted to removably attach the mass damper module to structural lifting parts (303a-d) of a nacelle (300) of the wind turbine installation; and an active tuned mass damper (601) controllable to damp vibration of the wind turbine installation when the mass damper module is so attached to the nacelle and the nacelle is attached to a tower (200) to form the wind turbine installation.

A damping integrated device, a damper, and a wind turbine are provided. The damping integrated device includes: a base body including an inner cavity extending in the lengthwise direction thereof; a frequency adjustment component disposed in the inner cavity and including an elastic member and a connecting member; a first connector extending into the inner cavity and at least partially protruding out of the base body in the lengthwise direction, the first connector being capable of moving relative to the base body, to make the elastic member stretch or shrink in the lengthwise direction; and a damping component disposed in the inner cavity, being connected to the connecting member and at least partially abutting against an inner wall of the base body, and the damping component being configured to absorb kinetic energy of the first connector.

A segment for a Scruton helix includes: a segment body, a coupling device on the segment body for coupling the segment to a further segment for the Scruton helix, a push-on device on the segment body for coupling the segment to a rope. Also disclosed are a system for a Scruton helix, a Scruton helix, a tower for a wind turbine, and a method for mounting a Scruton helix.

The present disclosure relates to wind turbine blades (22) configured to receive a peripheral device (250a, 250b, 250c) at a portion of the outer surface (211) of the blade (22), and wherein the wind turbine blade (22) is configured to magnetically couple to the peripheral device (250a, 250b, 250c). The present disclosure also relates to wind turbine blade assemblies (200) and methods (700) to provide the same.

A method is for controlling a wind turbine. The wind turbine has a tower, a nacelle, a rotor with at least two rotor blades and a yaw system with at least one yaw drive configured to rotate the nacelle about a vertical axis of the tower (yaw axis). A control signal for the at least one yaw drive depends on at least one signal indicative of the wind direction. The control signal for the at least one yaw drive further depends on at least one value indicative of a vibration mode of the rotor blades.

It is provided methods of installing a mechanical damper apparatus to an external surface of a tower of a wind turbine, the tower being in an erect state.