Evaluation of Damage Mechanics of industrial wind turbine gearboxes

Valter Jantara; Jun Zhou; Sanaz Roshanmanesh; Farzad Hayati; Siavash Hajiabady; Xiao Ying Li; Hanshan Dong; Mayorkinos Papaelias

Evaluation of Damage Mechanics of industrial wind turbine gearboxes

Valter Jantara, Jun Zhou, Sanaz Roshanmanesh, Farzad Hayati, Siavash Hajiabady, Xiao Ying Li, Hanshan Dong, Mayorkinos Papaelias^*

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Abstract

In recent years global wind power capacity has grown steadily at an annual rate of around 20%. This has led to wind energy becoming the most important renewable energy source on a global scale, with the total installed capacity reaching 430 GW. However, the strong growth of offshore wind power has been somewhat inhibited from a number of operational challenges that are yet to be addressed in full. The most important of these challenges appears to be the reliability of the wind turbine gearbox (WTG). WTGs are currently unable to survive their anticipated design lifetime of 20-25 years. Most of them hardly reach a useful operational lifetime of more than 7 years without serious refurbishment or replacement, whereas for offshore wind turbines failures have been reported as early as within 1 to 2 years. In this paper, the damage mechanisms influencing WTGs are evaluated by microstructural analysis of failed in-field components, finite element analysis simulations for the damage initiation and propagation (FEA), and acoustic emission condition monitoring data acquired from the field.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	1st World Congress on Condition Monitoring 2017, WCCM 2017 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Jun 2017 → 16 Jun 2017

Conference

Conference	1st World Congress on Condition Monitoring 2017, WCCM 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	13/06/17 → 16/06/17

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the European Commission through the OPTIMUS FP7 project. OPTIMUS (Demonstration of methods and tools for optimisation of operational reliability of large-scale industrial wind turbines) is a co-operation between the following organisations: The University of Birmingham, ENGITEC Limited, OREC, INGETEAM Service, ACCIONA ENERGIA, Instituto de Soldadura E Qualidade, INDRA Sistemas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Dynamics, Structures and Systems International, The University of Sheffield, Romax Technology and TERNA Energy. The Project is managed by OREC and is a partly funded project by the European Commission under the FP7 framework programme (Grant Agreement Number: 322430). The authors also wish to express their appreciation to the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development of Brasil (CNPq) for the financial support received through the Science iwthout Borders Scheme.

Keywords

Acoustic emission
Condition monitoring
FEA
Gearbox
Wind turbines

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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