Determination of the combined vibrational and acoustic emission signature of a wind turbine gearbox and generator shaft in service as a pre-requisite for effective condition monitoring

Renewable Energy

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 175-181

  Soua, Slim ^a   Van Lieshout, Paul ^b   Perera, Asanka ^c   Gan, Tat Hean ^a   Bridge, Bryan ^a  

^a TWI LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b SKM   (United Kingdom)

^c New York Industrial Park   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Condition monitoring; Gearbox; Probability of detection; Signature of healthy wind turbine; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION SIGNATURE; CASE HISTORY; FALSE ALARMS; GEARBOX; OPERATIONAL VARIABLES; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; SENSOR DATA; STANDARD DEVIATION; TIME INTERVAL; TURBINE POWER; VIBRATION; WIND SPEED;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; CONDITION MONITORING; DEFECTS; STATISTICS;

WIND TURBINES;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; AUTOMATION; EQUIPMENT COMPONENT; MAINTENANCE; MONITORING SYSTEM; PARAMETERIZATION; POWER GENERATION; VIBRATION; WARNING SYSTEM; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84867625999     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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