Effective and accurate approaches for wind turbine gearbox condition monitoring

Wind Energy

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 715-728

  Luo, Huageng ^a   Hatch, Charles ^b   Kalb, Matthew ^b   Hanna, Jesse ^b   Weiss, Adam ^b   Sheng, Shuangwen ^c  

^a GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^b GE Bently Nevada   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

acceleration enveloping; bearing damage; condition monitoring; drivetrain; gear damage; synthesized synchronous sampling; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WIND TURBINES;

BEARING DAMAGE; DRIVE-TRAIN COMPONENTS; DRIVETRAIN; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; SAMPLING RESOLUTION; SYNCHRONOUS SAMPLING; WIND TURBINE GEARBOXES;

CONDITION MONITORING;

ACCELERATION; DAMAGE; MONITORING; SAMPLING; SHAFT; SOFTWARE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATION; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84897577189     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.1595     Document Type: Article

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