Monitoring wind turbine gearboxes

Wind Energy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 728-740

  Feng, Yanhui ^a   Qiu, Yingning ^a   Crabtree, Christopher J ^b   Long, Hui ^c   Tavner, Peter J ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

condition monitoring; gearbox; oil debris; oil temperature; reliability; SCADA; vibration; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DEBRIS; FAULT DETECTION; FORECASTING; RELIABILITY; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINES;

CONDITION MONITORING SYSTEMS; GEARBOX; OIL TEMPERATURE; OIL TEMPERATURE RISE; SCADA; SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION; VIBRATION; WIND TURBINE GEARBOXES;

CONDITION MONITORING;

DATA ACQUISITION; MONITORING; OIL; TEMPERATURE; VIBRATION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84881385958     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1521     Document Type: Review

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