A new noise-controlled second-order enhanced stochastic resonance method with its application in wind turbine drivetrain fault diagnosis

Jimeng Li, Xuefeng Chen, Zhaohui Du, Zuowei Fang and Zhengjia He

Renewable Energy, 2013, vol. 60, issue C, 7-19

Abstract: Condition monitoring of a wind turbine is important to extend the wind turbine system's reliability and useful life. However, in many cases, to extract feature components becomes challenging and the applicability of information drops down due to the large amount of noise. Stochastic resonance (SR), used as a method of utilising noise to amplify weak signals in nonlinear systems, can detect weak signals overwhelmed in the noise. Therefore, a new noise-controlled second-order enhanced SR method based on the Morlet wavelet transform is proposed to extract fault feature for wind turbine vibration signals in the present study. The second-order SR method can obtain better denoising effect and higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of resonance output by means of twice integral transform compared with the traditional SR method. Morlet wavelet transform can obtain finer frequency partitions and overcome the frequency aliasing compared with the classical wavelet transform. Therefore, through Morlet wavelet transform, the noise intensity of different scales can be adjusted to realize the resonance detection of weak periodic signal whatever it is a low-frequency signal or high-frequency signal. Thus the method is well-suited for enhancement of weak fault identification, whose effectiveness has been verified by the practical vibration signals carrying fault information. Finally, the proposed method has been applied to extract feature of the looseness fault of shaft coupling of wind turbine successfully.

Keywords: Wind turbines; Fault diagnosis; Second-order stochastic resonance; Morlet wavelet transform; Multiscale noise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.04.005

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