Wind Turbine Maintenance and Monitoring Significantly Reduces Downtime
Reduce Downtime with Wind Turbine Maintenance Equipment
Did you know that ~80%* of bearing failures are as a result of lubrication issues?
With stats like that its no wonder oil analysis is fundamental to wind turbine monitoring and maintenance.
Wind turbine oil analysis monitoring has time and again proved a useful tool to prevent and identify failures which if left, can lead to very expensive replacement of parts, additional maintenance costs and loss of revenue. Current oil analysis practice at most remote wind turbine sights has been shown to be useful but too infrequent to show a true picture of gearbox health.
Whether you choose to measure on-line or off-line its now becoming increasingly important to maintain and monitor key parameters of wind turbines such as wear debris, moisture, oil quality and particle content.
As wind turbines become larger and more complex, the power produced from them increases but so can rectification of failures. One such event was the failure of all 30 2MW turbines installed at Scroby sands in the UK. All failures occurred within one year of installation.
Data provided by a wind turbine gearbox manufacturer shows the total cost of removing, overhauling and reinstalling a gear box can be up to €450,000*. This can be due to the wind turbine's inaccessibility, crane rental, man hours used and loss of earnings on the wind turbine. If wind turbine maintenance equipment, such as a sensor, detects a potentially serious problem before it becomes too advanced the repair bill could be a fraction of this cost. If a sensor detected oil contamination such as water in the oil or oxidation which could lead to a serious failure then the whole wind turbine could be saved by simply replacing the oil and stopping the leak.
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