Condition monitoring of wind turbines: Techniques and methods

Fausto Pedro García Márquez, Andrew Mark Tobias, Jesús María Pinar Pérez and Mayorkinos Papaelias

Renewable Energy, 2012, vol. 46, issue C, 169-178

Abstract: Wind Turbines (WT) are one of the fastest growing sources of power production in the world today and there is a constant need to reduce the costs of operating and maintaining them. Condition monitoring (CM) is a tool commonly employed for the early detection of faults/failures so as to minimise downtime and maximize productivity. This paper provides a review of the state-of-the-art in the CM of wind turbines, describing the different maintenance strategies, CM techniques and methods, and highlighting in a table the various combinations of these that have been reported in the literature. Future research opportunities in fault diagnostics are identified using a qualitative fault tree analysis.

Keywords: Fault detection and diagnosis; Condition monitoring; Maintenance management; Wind turbines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.03.003

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