Patent attributes
A wind turbine is provided having a foundation, a tower with a tower wall, at least one component to be cooled within the tower wall, a first cooling unit within the tower wall for cooling the components to be cooled, a second cooling unit, which is provided at least partially outside the tower wall, and a medium-voltage switchgear assembly within the tower wall. The wind turbine further has at least one fault arc duct between the medium-voltage switchgear assembly and the second cooling unit. At least one cooling duct or a cooling line between the first and second cooling unit is also provided. The second cooling unit has a heat exchanger which is coupled to the cooling duct or the cooling line, and a pressure-release unit which serves to guide a pressure wave formed inside the medium-voltage switchgear assembly and transmitted via the fault arc duct to the outside.
