Cost-effective condition monitoring for wind turbines

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 263-271

  Yang, Wenxian ^a   Tavner, Peter J ^b   Crabtree, Christopher J ^b   Wilkinson, Michael ^c  

^a New and Renewable Energy Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CENTRAL FREQUENCY; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DRIVE TRAIN; FAULT FEATURE; FILTER BANDWIDTH; GENERATOR CURRENT; INDIRECT-DRIVE; INDUCTION GENERATOR; LUBRICATION OIL; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; OUTPUT POWER; POWER SIGNALS; REMOTE LOCATION; ROTATIONAL SPEED; SPEED FLUCTUATIONS; TEST RIGS; TIME VARYING; VARIABLE SPEED;

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DRILLING RIGS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FAULT DETECTION; FREQUENCY BANDS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEED; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CONDITION MONITORING;

EID: 72749084177     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2032202     Document Type: Article

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