EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS OF SOME COMMON FAULTS FOR WIND TURBINE

摘要

This paper focus on the fault characteristic by experimental research. A test rig is built for the direct driving stall fix-pitch horizontal axis wind turbine. 8 signals are collected by the experiment system, including wind speed, rotor rotational speed, shaft torque, the output electric power, vertical and horizontal vibration displacement of main shaft, vibration acceleration of the front bearing pedestal and the back bearing pedestal. 11 common wind turbine faults are researched by experiment. These faults are rotor mass imbalance, pneumatic asymmetry, airfoil changed, yaw fault, shaft horizontal misalignment, shaft vertical misalignment, front bearing pedestal looseness, rear bearing pedestal looseness, front bearing outer ring fault, front bearing inner ring fault, and front bearing roller fault. Several signal analysis methods, which are waveform analysis, orbit analysis, amplitude domain analysis, frequency domain analysis and envelope spectrum analysis, are adopted to extract characteristics from vibration signals. The influence on output power and vibration characteristics of these faults is presented by comparing with normal operation. The findings can be used to guide wind turbine fault diagnosis in engineering applications.