SUPERGEN Wind & ReliaWind
Research towards a Highly Reliable Offshore Wind Power Station
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
09:00 – 15:00
Room C2
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Agenda
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Presentations can be downloaded by clicking on the relevant title
09:00–10:00 | Coffee and tea / Networking |
10:00–10:30 | Research for the highly reliable offshore wind power station (PDF 1.2MB) |
10:30–11:00 | Drive train test facility -invited industrial presentation (PDF 2.4MB) |
11:00–11:35 | |
11:35–12:10 | |
12:10–13:10 | Lunch / Coffee and tea / Posters |
13:15–13:50 | Advanced wind turbine health monitoring from SCADA (PDF 2.7MB) |
13:50–14:25 | |
14:25–15:00 |
Description
Research has been carried out towards a highly reliable offshore wind power station in two projec
- UK EPSRC-funded SUPERGEN Wind (www.supergen-wind.org.uk);
- EU-funded Reliawind (www.reliawind.eu).
SUPERGEN
The four-year, £2.55m SUPERGEN Wind Research Consortium was established by the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council on 23 March 2006 as part of their Sustainable Power Generation and Supply programme, in order "To undertake research to improve the cost-effective reliability and availability of existing and future large-scale wind turbine systems in the UK". The Consortium has recently been renewed for a further four years.
The SUPERGEN Wind Consortium is led by Strathclyde and Durham Universities and consists of 9 research groups with expertise in wind turbine technology, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, materials, electrical machinery & control, and reliability & condition monitoring. The Consortium has the active support of 10 industrial partners, including wind farm operators, manufacturers and consultants. Research is being conducted in areas including:
- Baselining wind turbine performance (reliability and availability, turbine configuration, wind characteristics);
- Drive-trains loads and monitoring (turbine characterisation, condition monitoring);
- Structural loads and materials (wake effects, novel material, blade model, active load reduction);
- Environment issues (foundation scour, radar cross section, lightning).
Reliawind
The three-year, €7.7m Reliawind Consortium was established under the EU FP7 Programme in March 2008 to carry out reliability-focused research on optimising Wind Energy systems design, operation and maintenance: Tools, proof of concepts, guidelines & methodologies for a new generation. The Consortium is lead by Gamesa and includes 8 industrial partners and 2 Research institutions. The main goal is "to usher in a new generation of more efficient and reliable wind turbines, providing practical results to be used in wind turbine design, operations and maintenance". Research is being conducted in areas of:
- Field Reliability Analysis: identifying critical failures and components;
- Design for Reliability: understanding failures and their mechanisms;
- Algorithms: defining the logical architecture of an advanced WTG health monitoring system.
These projects have produced valuable results for the wind energy industry. This event presented the findings of most interest to the sector in seven presentations covering:
- Wind turbine reliability and availability;
- Advanced monitoring through SCADA;
- Fault analysis and condition monitoring;
- Wake developments and interactions.
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"... a well organised event - the sessions were informative and intuitive"
Mainstream Renewable Power, Ireland
