A Review of Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Gearbox Using Signal Processing

Abstract:

Due to gearbox is one of the high failure rate component in the wind turbine, the research of it has been paid wide attention in recent years. This paper reviewed the two aspects about the wind turbine gearbox. First, some signal process methods including how to determine the threshold were summarized. Then, the condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of gearbox were reviewed using the measured signals. These researches are benefited for reducing economic losses which is caused by the gearbox failure. Based on the above reviews, this paper gives some developmental direction.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 608-609)
• Pages: 673-676
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.608-609.673
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Zhi Qiang Xu, Jian Hua Zhang, Jing Fang Ji, Xiang Jun Yu
• Keywords: Condition Monitoring, De-Noising, Fault Diagnosis, Wind Turbine Gearbox

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