Wind Turbine Fault Detection System in Real Time Remote Monitoring

摘要

Wind power has boomed actually due to the proliferation of wind parks and their operation in supplying the national electric grid with low cost and clean resources. Hence, there is an increased need to establish a proactive maintenance for wind turbine machines based on remote control and monitoring which rely heavily on the timely delivery of safety real-time data for offshore or inaccessible locations through a wireless connection while the wired method has many flaws. The objective of this strategy is to prolong wind turbine lifetime and to increase productivity. The hardware of a remote control and monitoring system for wind turbines Park is designed by taking advantage of GPRS or Wi-Max wireless module to collect data measurements from different wind machines sensors through IP based multi-hop communication. Computer simulations with Proteus ISIS and OPNET tools have been conducted to evaluate the performance of the studied system. Study findings show that the designed device is suitable for application in a wind park.