An intelligent approach to the condition monitoring of large scale wind Turbines

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2009, EWEC 2009

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 4503-4508

  Yang, Wenxian ^a   Tavner, Peter J ^a   Crabtree, Christopher J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Condition monitoring; Empirical mode decomposition; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

EMD METHOD; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; NONLINEAR SIGNALS; NONSTATIONARY; SIFTING ALGORITHM; TEST RIGS;

EXHIBITIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CONDITION MONITORING;

EID: 84870017047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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