Online Rotor Unbalance Monitoring - A critical measurement for future condition monitoring systems

Ulrich Oertel, Holger Fritsch, and Nicholas Waters

Check out Pg. 48 of North American Clean Energy's September/October 2018 issue for the latest article we published on Bachmann's advances in predictive maintenance technology. Rotor unbalance monitoring - could this come standard for CMS units installed in future offshore wind farms?

"With a budget of €75 billion, the European Union established its Horizon 2020 initiative aimed to promote research and data transparency throughout the EU in an effort to create jobs, stimulate innovation, foster entrepreneurship, and continue to position the EU as one of the global leaders in scientific research. The ROMEO project, which is funded as part of Horizon 2020 initiative, strives to minimize the cost of offshore wind energy through advances in O&M technology. ROMEO consists of 12 participating companies, each with a specific area of focus. Serving as the technical expert for CMS, Bachmann’s role is to “provide advanced algorithms which are capable of recognizing automated gearbox related failures and damages of gears and bearings.” This paper describes some of the preliminary results behind the efforts to develop an online unbalance calculation system as part of a condition monitoring solution for offshore wind turbines."