Research on a simple, cheap but globally effective condition monitoring technique for wind turbines

Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yang, Wenxian ^a   Tavner, P J ^a   Crabtree, C J ^a   Wilkinson, Michael ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL FREQUENCIES; COMPLETE SOLUTIONS; CONDITION MONITORING SYSTEMS; ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS; ENERGY INFORMATIONS; FAULT FEATURES; FILTER BANDWIDTHS; HARDWARE COSTS; INDUCTION GENERATORS; LUBRICATION OIL; NON STATIONARIES; POWER ENERGIES; POWER RANGES; ROTATIONAL SPEED; SPURIOUS ALARMS; STOCHASTIC VARIATIONS; TEST RIGS; VARIABLE-SPEED; WIND SPEED;

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; CONDITION MONITORING; ELECTRIC FILTERS; SOLENOIDS; SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 65249109940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICELMACH.2008.4799902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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