Information entropy: An effective approach for wind turbine condition monitoring

European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2012, EWEC 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 772-778

  Yang, Wenxian ^a   Tavner, Peter J ^b   Sheng, Shuangwen ^c   Court, Richard S ^a  

^a National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec)   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Condition monitoring; Information entropy; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; INFORMATION ENTROPY; LARGE WIND TURBINES; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; PROCESSING ACCURACIES; WIND TURBINE GEARBOXES;

EXHIBITIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CONDITION MONITORING;

EID: 84884313920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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