On-Condition maintenance of wind generators with low cost systems

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Fonseca, I (Author) Other; Farinha, JT (Author) Other; Fernando Maciel Barbosa (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: ENERGY PROBLEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Pages: 128-135

3rd WSEAS International Conference on Energy Planning, Energy Saving, Environmental Education/3rd WSEAS RES 2009/3rd WSEAS WWAI 2009

Tenerife, SPAIN, JUL 01-03, 2009

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FOS: Engineering and technology > Other engineering and technologies

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Authenticus ID: P-003-PSR

Abstract (EN): This paper describes an integrated wind farm maintenance system, including software, hardware and some algorithms. The approach will imply the optimization of the maintenance planning among different wind towers owned by a company, considering the management of situations where the distances among them have a considerable weight in the maintenance costs. This reason, associated to the generators accessibility and the on-line maintenance variables acquisition, are very important to justify the necessity of improvement of the maintenance planning. This objective is achieved through the application of integrated maintenance management systems to which are associated new functionalities, in parallel with the usual ones in these systems that fit within the on-condition predictive maintenance, including on-line data acquisition modules. Usually, the manufactures construct, deploy and give the means to the suppliers to perform the wind system's maintenance. In some cases, the owners of wind farms can choose the maintenance company. This is a very competitive area, where companies hide the development details and implementations. Another important factor is that, by the first time in last ten years, the three countries with the largest installed power, together, have fallen to a minimum historic, below 40% of the market for wind power in the EU. Definitively, the other European countries encouraged the appearing of programs for installing wind power, with prominence for Italy, Portugal and Netherlands. Within this scenario, the development of maintenance management models for multiple wind equipments is important, and will allow countries to be more competitive in a growth market.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8