Condition monitoring of a rotor arrangement in particular a wind turbine

Hans Henrik Niemann (Inventor), Niels Kjølstad Poulsen (Inventor), Mahmood Mirzaei (Inventor), Lars Christian Henriksen (Inventor)

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of determining the condition of a device comprising a rotor arrangement. The rotor arrangement comprising a rotational shaft and a number rotor blades each connected at the root to the rotational shaft and extending radially from the rotational shaft. Sensors are arranged to measure for each rotor blade corresponding values of one or more of the following parameters: azimuth angle (Φ) (or a parameter related to the azimuth angle), root bending moment(s) (q), such as the edgewise and/or flapwise root bending moments. The method comprises, while the rotor arrangement rotates, recording corresponding values of azimuth angle and edgewise and flap wise root bending moments for a plurality of rotations of rotor arrangement, transforming by use of e.g. a multi blade coordinate transformation, a Park's transformation or similar transformation the recorded edgewise and flap wise root bending moments (q) into a coordinate system rotating with the rotational shaft, thereby obtaining transformed root bending moments (qf). The method further comprising identifying periodicity in each of the transformed root bending moments, determining the condition of the rotor arrangement to be faulty, in case the one or more periodicities are identified in the transformed root bending moments.

Original languageEnglish
IPCG01M 1/ 14 A I
Patent numberWO2017093512
Filing date08/06/2017
Country/TerritoryInternational Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Priority date03/12/2015
Priority numberEP20150197771
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jun 2017

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