ABSTRACT A planetary gear of a wind turbine is a critical component in the view of condition monitoring and fault detection because the fault of the gear needs much cost and time to fix or replace it. In this paper, classification of damage for a planetary gear is proposed and validated by the experiment of wind turbine simulator in order to evaluate the possibility of the application to fault ...

in this research paper, the performance of an air-cored axial flux permanent magnet synchronous generator is evaluated for low speed, direct drive applications using 3d finite element modeling and experimental tests. the structure of the considered machine consists of double rotor and coreless stator, which results in the absence of core losses, reduction of stator weight and elimination of cog...

Wind is one of the cheapest and widely source of alternative energy. To convert it into electrical energy a wind turbine with generator is used but to properly convert this wind energy into electrical energy proper design of wind turbine is needed. In this paper we presents a genetic algorithm based optimization technique for the estimation of wind turbine parameters on the basis of requirement...

Variable speed operation of a wind turbine generator improves its energy capturing capability. Up to the present, the machines employed have been induction machines, conventional synchronous machines or DC machines. The major drawback of these machines is that a complicated arrangement of slip rings or commutators with brushes, and a full-rating power converter are required. Reliability and cos...

We have developed a new wind turbine system that consists of a diffuser shroud with a broad-ring brim at the exit periphery and a wind turbine inside it. The shrouded wind turbine with a brimmed diffuser has demonstrated power augmentation by a factor of about 2–5 compared with a bare wind turbine, for a given turbine diameter and wind speed. This is because a low-pressure region, due to a stro...

The flow hydrodynamics in a low specific speed radial pump-turbine reduced scale model is experimentally investigated under off-design operating conditions in generating mode. Wall pressure measurements, in the stator, synchronized with high-speed flow visualizations in the vaneless space between the impeller and the guide vanes using air bubbles injection are performed. When starting from the ...

Most variable speed wind turbines have pitch control mechanisms and one of their objectives is to protect turbines when the wind speed is too high. By adjusting pitch angles of wind turbine, the inlet power and the torque developed by the turbine are regulated. In this paper, the difference between the real wind speed and its rated value is regarded as a disturbance, and a component called dist...

In above rated conditions, wind turbines are often subjected to undesirable high structural loading. We investigate two feedback control techniques in combination with a feedforward control method for reducing blade flap bending loads in above rated wind conditions. The feedback controls studied include both disturbance accommodating/tracking and integral augmented/repetitive types that incorpo...

This paper considers power generation control in variable-speed variable-pitch horizontal-axis wind turbines operating at high wind speeds. A dynamic chattering torque control and a proportional integral (PI) pitch control strategy are proposed and validated using the National Renewable Energy Laboratory wind turbine simulator FAST (Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures, and Turbulence) code. Valid...

Rotor dynamics plays an important role in many engineering fields such as gas turbine, steam turbine, reciprocating and centrifugal compressors, the spindle of machine tools, and so on. Owing to the growing demands for high power, high speed, and light weight of the rotor-bearing system, computations of critical speeds and steady-state response at synchronous and sub critical resonances become ...