This paper presents a novel solution method based on measurement and analysis of current signals for gearbox fault recognition of wind turbine. A gearbox with typical oil-leakage fault is purposely made. The oil-leakage gearbox and a normal gearbox are used as experimental models to measure and analyze the current signals of generator. This work employs wavelet transform (WT), empirical mode de...

It is well known that a faulty gearbox vibration signal exhibits an amplitude modulation (AM) as well as a phase modulation (PM). These modulation carry out a lot of useful information about health condition. This paper presents two approaches for modeling amplitude and phase modulation in gearbox vibration signal. These last are used to describe the vibration signal by a state space model. The...

the winD inDustry has experienceD a rapid expansion. As wind farms are aging, their operations and maintenance issues are gaining in significance. The wind industry has been affected by failures of wind turbine components such as main bearings, gearboxes, and generators. Replacement of failed components results in the high cost in energy production. Therefore, research in fault identification a...

New conversion technologies of used edible oils and waste animal fats into a biofuel appropriate for use in standard diesel engines have been developed, taking into consideration environmental requirements and improvement in the economics of current trans-esterification technologies. The variation in the properties of substrates made from used rape oil after treatment with mixed adsorbents (act...

Research of vibroactivity of the means of transport, in particular of the gearbox, has become of significant importance in the recent years. Reducing of their environmental nuisance consists primarily of reducing the noise and vibration levels. Research of this type is currently conducted using simulation models, which is economically justified. The results of these studies may be a basis for t...

Condition monitoring of a gearbox is a crucial activity due to its importance in power transmission for many industrial applications. Thus, there has always been a constant pressure to improve measuring techniques and analytical tools for early detection of faults in gearboxes. This study forces to develop the gearbox monitoring methods using the operating parameters obtained from machine contr...

The failure of rotating machinery sometimes involves several faulty components. Existence of both bearing fault and gearbox fault is widely observed and in this situation the vibration feature of the bearing fault can be masked by the faulty gearbox vibration signals. In this research, a method is proposed based on wavelet packet transform and envelope analysis to extract fault features of the ...

Quantifying wind turbine (WT) gearbox fatigue life is a critical problem for preventive maintenance when unsolved. This paper proposes a practical approach that uses ten minutes’ average wind speed of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) data to quantify a WT gearbox’s gear fatigue life. Wind turbulence impacts on gearbox fatigue are studied thoroughly. Short-term fatigue assessment...

Probabilistic latent component analysis (PLCA) is applied to the problem of gearbox vibration source separation. A model for the probability distribution of gearbox vibration employs a latent variable intended to correspond to a particular vibration source, with the measured vibration at a particular sensor for each source the product of a marginal distribution of vibration by frequency, a marg...