CONDITION MONITORING SYSTEM FOR WIND

TURBINES
ABSTRACT

The maintenance cost of wind turbines has become the significant challenge for
the wind power enterprise. One available way to reduce the cost is to monitor the wind turbines
and make preventative maintenance. An on-line condition monitoring system for wind turbines
in plant level was presented. A 4-level monitoring structure was designed for the system, and
the network communication was used to transmit the data efficiently. A high performance
digital signal processor (DSP) was used as the processing core in the signal acquisition device.
A computer software was also developed for data analysis and remote management of the
monitoring device. The vibrations, temperature, and some other information of the turbines
were gathered synchronously. The monitoring centre in wind farm, the data center of wind
power enterprise and the remote service centre of equipment supplier can know the operation
condition of wind turbines well. It would be useful for wind power enterprise to obtain the
operation condition of wind turbine and reduce the cost of maintenance. An on-line condition
monitoring system for wind turbines in plant level was designed with ADSP. Four-level
monitoring system was designed for the communication between turbines, the monitoring
center in wind farm, the center of the enterprise and the remote service center of equipment
supplier. The device mounted on the turbine can collect the vibration signals in multiple
channels synchronously, and the sampling frequencycan be programmed between 0.1 Hz to
250 kHz. ADSP-BF518 processor was used as the processing core, and the data can be filtered
and stored on the board. A network communication interface was designed for data
transmission between wind turbines and the farm center. And the distributed monitoringsystem
can be formed to analyze the operation status of windturbine and diagnose the fault condition.

Reference:

[1] EWEA. 2014. World wind resources assessment report. WWEA Technical paper series,
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[2] Xin Sui, Chunyang Liu, Jishun Li, Hongbiao Han, 2015. Design and application of
distributed wind turbines vibration DAQ system for wind farm. Measurement &
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Guided by, Submitted by,

Mr. KiranSankar M S Sanju Eappen George

Assistant Professor Reg no: 13414099
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
SBCE Pattoor. SBCE Pattoor.