Non-destructive testing and condition monitoring techniques for renewable energy industrial assets

Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring Techniques for Renewable Energy Industrial Assets integrates state-of-the-art information and discusses future developments and their significance to the improvement of the renewable energy industry. Renewable energy assets are complex systems with se...

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Other Authors Papaelias, Mayorkinos (Editor), Garcia, Fausto Pedro (Editor), Karyotakis, Alexander (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Kidlington, Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, an imprint of Elsevier, 2020.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780128097472
0128097477
9780081010945
008101094X
Physical Description1 online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Non-Destructive Testing and Condition Monitoring Techniques for Renewable Energy Industrial Assets
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction to non-destructive testing and condition monitoring techniques for renewable energy industrial assets
  • Chapter 1: Wind turbines: A general reliability analysis
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Wind turbine components
  • 3 Reliability analysis
  • 3.1 Fault tree analysis
  • 3.2 Binary decision diagrams
  • 3.3 Conversion from FTA to BDD
  • 3.4 Rankings for events
  • 4 Experiments
  • 4.1 Foundation and tower
  • 4.2 Blades
  • 4.3 Generator, electrical and electronic components
  • 4.4 Power train
  • 5 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Wind turbine inspection and condition monitoring
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Avoiding catastrophic failure
  • 3 Inspection of wind turbine components
  • References
  • Chapter 3: An overview of wind turbine maintenance management
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Condition monitoring and the SCADA system
  • 3 Maintenance model approaches
  • 3.1 Statistical methods
  • 3.2 Trend analysis
  • 3.3 Filtering methods
  • 3.4 Time-domain analysis
  • 3.5 Cepstrum analysis
  • 3.6 Time synchronous averaging (TSA)
  • 3.7 Fast-Fourier transform
  • 3.8 Amplitude demodulation (acceleration enveloping)
  • 3.9 Order analysis
  • 3.10 Wavelet transform
  • 3.11 Hidden Markov models
  • 3.12 Novel techniques: Expert systems and artificial intelligent
  • 4 Fault tree analysis
  • 5 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Non-destructive testing for the evaluation of icing blades in wind turbines
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Icing conditions
  • 3 Methods for detecting ice on a wind turbine
  • 3.1 Detection methods
  • 3.2 Damping of ultrasonic waves
  • 3.3 Measurement of frequency in resonance.
  • 3.4 Vibration measurement of a diaphragm
  • 3.5 Optical measurement techniques
  • 3.5.1 Measurement of the reflected light
  • 3.5.2 Infrared spectroscopy
  • 3.6 Measurement of ice loads
  • 3.7 Heated anemometers
  • 3.8 Prediction methods or probability frost maps
  • 3.9 Other prediction systems
  • 3.9.1 Change of electrical properties
  • 4 Methods of prevention for the occurrence of ice on a wind turbine
  • 4.1 Heating of blades
  • 4.2 Ice-repellent coating
  • 4.3 Microwaves
  • 5 Methods for removing ice from a wind turbine blade
  • 5.1 Mechanical operations
  • 5.2 Black paint
  • 5.3 Other methods
  • 6 Detection and removal of ice systems
  • 6.1 ENERCON detection system
  • 6.2 LID-3300IP ice detector sensor designed by Labkotech
  • 6.3 0871LH1 Goodrich freezing rain sensor
  • 6.4 The ice load surveillance sensor ice monitor
  • 6.5 Ice Meister model 9734
  • 6.6 HoloOptics series T40 sensor
  • 6.7 WXT-520 sensor
  • 6.8 WAA252 heated anemometer sensor
  • 6.9 NRG IceFree 3
  • 6.10 ENERCON melting system
  • 6.11 Blades heating
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Wind turbine gearboxes: Failures, surface treatments and condition monitoring
  • 1 Introduction-Wind turbine gearboxes
  • 2 Gearbox failures
  • 3 Gearbox condition monitoring
  • 3.1 Vibration analysis
  • 3.1.1 Time domain analysis
  • 3.1.2 Frequency domain analysis
  • 3.2 Acoustic emission monitoring
  • 3.3 Oil analysis
  • 4 Surface engineering
  • 4.1 Carburising
  • 4.2 Nitriding
  • 4.3 Duplex and composite coatings
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 6: Non-destructive testing of wind turbines using ultrasonic waves
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Case study
  • 3 Approach
  • 4 Pattern recognition by neural network (multilayer perceptron)
  • 5 Results
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References.
  • Chapter 7: A review on condition monitoring system for solar plants based on thermography
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Fundaments of thermography
  • 2.1 Techniques
  • 3 Thermography for solar panels
  • 3.1 Active solar thermography
  • 3.2 Passive solar thermography
  • 4 Advantages and disadvantages of solar panel thermography
  • 4.1 Advantages
  • 4.2 Disadvantages
  • 5 Factors that affect the measurement
  • 6 Principal failures studied
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Remotely operated vehicle applications
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Non-destructive testing in wind turbines
  • 3 Description of the system
  • 3.1 Robot platform
  • 3.2 Vacuum system
  • 4 System applications
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 9: Remote condition monitoring for photovoltaic systems
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Solar panels
  • 3 Experimental platform
  • 3.1 Hardware
  • 3.2 Software
  • 4 Case study
  • 5 Results
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 10: Tidal turbines
  • 1 Overview
  • 1.1 Early tidal turbines
  • 1.2 Modern tidal power generators
  • 1.3 Rotor blades
  • 1.4 Drive train
  • 1.5 Gearbox
  • 1.6 Generator
  • 1.7 Power converter
  • 1.8 Low-voltage consumed power
  • 1.9 Control and management systems
  • 1.10 Supporting structure
  • 1.11 Power transmission
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 11: Automatic statistical analysis of acoustic emission data sets
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Automated data clustering algorithms
  • 2.1 The k-means algorithm
  • 2.2 The Forgy algorithm
  • 2.3 The ISODATA algorithm
  • 2.4 The SOM-LVQ algorithm
  • 2.5 The Fast Fourier Transform
  • 3 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 12: Non-destructive methods for detection and localisation of partial discharges
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Experimental setup.
  • 2.1 Measuring equipment of damper alternating current (DAC)
  • 3 Case studies
  • 3.1 Case 1
  • 3.2 Case 2
  • 4 Results
  • 4.1 Case 1
  • 4.2 Case 2
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Index
  • Back Cover.