Patent ID: 8052383

Claim:
A wind turbine temperature control system, comprising: a wind turbine tower; a wind turbine nacelle positioned at an upper portion of the wind turbine tower; a wind turbine rotor including two or more wind turbine blades mounted to a central hub and rotatably supported from within the nacelle; a drivetrain that receives mechanical energy from the wind turbine rotor and converts the mechanical energy into electrical energy; at least one heat generating component of the wind turbine housed within the wind turbine nacelle; a heat exchanger positioned outside of the wind turbine nacelle; a heat exchange fluid pathway including a first portion leading from the at least one heat generating component to the heat exchanger and a second portion leading from the heat exchanger to the heat generating component of the wind turbine; a bypass heat exchange fluid pathway that connects the first portion of the heat exchange fluid pathway to the second portion of the heat exchange fluid pathway, bypassing the heat exchanger; a bypass valve that controls fluid communication between the first portion of the heat exchange fluid pathway and the bypass heat exchange fluid pathway; and a heat exchange fluid in the heat exchanger, the heat exchange fluid pathway and the bypass heat exchange fluid pathway.