The design of wind turbines evolved over time, with the scope of becoming less expensive and producing energy more efficiently. This paper deals with a FEM model for the representation of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) functioning for diagnostic and monitoring studies, which can provide fundamental data that can optimize the design of the monitoring system and an improvements in fault diagnosis related to vibration effects. In particular in this paper will discuss a monodimensional VAWT model, in order to reduce the computational time and, at the same, by using low computational resources to analyze several load cases. Growing usage of wind turbines has made maintenance a priority, and diagnosing potential faults is crucial to maintaining the turbin��s desired availability. The simulation data obtained by the proposed approach allows to optimize condition monitoring and fault diagnostic techniques by the analysis of the wind turbine behavior before the real use on the field with both time and costs reduction.
Wind turbine vibration monitoring based on finite-element (FE) simulation / M. Catelani;L. Ciani;S. Papini;A. Rindi. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 615-619. (Intervento presentato al convegno 20th IMEKO TC4 Symposium on Measurements of Electrical Quantities: Research on Electrical and Electronic Measurement for the Economic Upturn, Together with 18th TC4 International Workshop on ADC and DCA Modeling and Testing, IWADC 2014 tenutosi a Benevento (Italy) nel 2014).
Wind turbine vibration monitoring based on finite-element (FE) simulation
CATELANI, MARCANTONIO;CIANI, LORENZO;PAPINI, SUSANNA;RINDI, ANDREA
2014
Abstract
The design of wind turbines evolved over time, with the scope of becoming less expensive and producing energy more efficiently. This paper deals with a FEM model for the representation of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) functioning for diagnostic and monitoring studies, which can provide fundamental data that can optimize the design of the monitoring system and an improvements in fault diagnosis related to vibration effects. In particular in this paper will discuss a monodimensional VAWT model, in order to reduce the computational time and, at the same, by using low computational resources to analyze several load cases. Growing usage of wind turbines has made maintenance a priority, and diagnosing potential faults is crucial to maintaining the turbin��s desired availability. The simulation data obtained by the proposed approach allows to optimize condition monitoring and fault diagnostic techniques by the analysis of the wind turbine behavior before the real use on the field with both time and costs reduction.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.