Wind turbine gearbox oil temperature feature extraction and condition monitoring based on energy flow

Xinjian Bai, Shuang Han, Zijian Kang, Tao Tao, Cong Pang, Shixian Dai and Yongqian Liu

Applied Energy, 2024, vol. 371, issue C, No S0306261924010705

Abstract: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) data is widely used for wind turbine gearbox condition monitoring (WTGCM) due to its easy access and low cost, thus ensuring the safe and reliable operation of wind turbine gearboxes. However, existing WTGCM methods based on SCADA overlook the fundamental thermal physics and sensor failure. To effectively address the challenges of weak feature generalization and numerous false alarms, we propose a highly robust WTGCM method based on energy flow. Firstly, based on the principles of thermal balance and wind energy conversion, a feature extraction method considering the physical change process of oil temperature is proposed. Secondly, the performance of different feature extraction methods is quantitatively analyzed using data evaluation criteria. The reasons why different feature extraction methods have different effects are revealed through dimensionality reduction analysis. Finally, we compare the proposed method with other feature extraction methods using four models to validate the excellent performance of the proposed method in the early fault warning. The results demonstrate that the proposed method reduces the average root mean square error by 18.21% during the healthy operation of the wind turbine gearboxes. Moreover, the proposed method performs excellently in early warning of mechanical and sensor faults, significantly reducing the number of false alarms. The average warning time for mechanical faults is 32.56 h earlier.

Keywords: Wind turbine gearbox; SCADA; Condition monitoring; Early fault detection; Feature extraction; Energy flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.123687

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