• DocumentCode
    3228485
  • Title

    Residual generation for the gearbox efficiency drop fault detection in the NREL 1.5WindPact turbine

  • Author

    Ait Elmaati, Younes ; El Bahir, Lhoussain ; Faitah, Khalid

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Cadi Ayyad Univ., Marrakech, Morocco
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    25-27 March 2015
  • Firstpage
    77
  • Lastpage
    81
  • Abstract
    This paper presents an approach to detect and estimate drop of gearbox efficiency in wind turbine systems. First, shaft torque is estimated through a specified model. The last estimation torque is used to detect gearbox efficiency drop through a proportional action loop. The approach was implemented on FAST coded simulator, designed by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory´s National Wind Turbine Center. The obtained results provide a good fault detection and estimation.
  • Keywords
    fault diagnosis; gears; maintenance engineering; power generation reliability; wind turbines; FAST coded simulator; NREL 1.5 WindPact turbine; gearbox efficiency drop fault detection; residual generation; shaft torque; Generators; Mathematical model; Power measurement; Shafts; Simulation; Torque; Turbines; Fault detection; Wind Turbines; gearbox efficiency; residual generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrical and Information Technologies (ICEIT), 2015 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Marrakech
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-7478-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EITech.2015.7162939
  • Filename
    7162939