The structure healthy condition monitoring and fault diagnosis methods in wind turbines: A review. (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, W.Y.; Tang, B.P.; Han, J.G.; Lu, X.N.; Hu, N.N.; He, Z.Z.
• Is Part Of: Renewable & sustainable energy reviews. Volume 44(2015:Apr.)
• Page Start: 466
• Page End: 472
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: SHCM Structure healthy condition monitoring -- VAWT Vertical axis wind turbine -- HAWT Horizontal axis wind turbine -- O&M Operations and maintenance -- VRG Variable ratio gearbox -- AC Alternating Current -- WT Wavelet transformation -- WVD Wigner- Ville distribution -- EMD Empirical mode decomposition -- IMFs Intrinsic mode functions -- SHM Structural health monitoring -- EEMD Ensemble EMD -- CMS Condition monitoring system -- DFIG Doubly Fed Induction Generator -- WTGs Wind turbine generators -- PMSG Permanent-magnetic synchronous generator -- DG Direct generator -- SCADA Supervisory control and data acquisition -- NN Neural network -- ES Expert system -- FD Fault diagnosis -- SVM Support Vector Machine; Condition monitoring (CM) -- Fault diagnosis -- Diagnostic technology -- Wind Turbines -- Review; Renewable energy sources -- Periodicals; Power resources -- Periodicals; Énergies renouvelables -- Périodiques; Ressources énergétiques -- Périodiques; 333.794
• DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.12.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-0321

Abstract

Abstract: Wind turbines have been developed fast in the recent years and at the same time have brought some problems. It is important to maintain the healthy condition of the running turbine because the consequences after faults are miserable for both the company and owner. There is a constant need to reduce the costs of operating and maintaining the turbines. Therefore, it is very important to detect the faults/failures early so as to minimize downtime and maximize productivity. This paper reviewed the structure of wind turbines and analyzed the different components of wind turbines in order to detect the faults that may happen. Meanwhile, this paper mainly reviewed fault diagnosis methods of wind turbines in the last three years. The main purpose of this paper is to supply some information on structure healthy condition monitoring (SHCM) and fault diagnosis in wind turbines for related researchers.