Drivetrain Development and Reliability
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12006 Wind Program Peer Review
Drivetrain Development and Reliability
Sandy Butterfield
5/10/2006
•Need pictures
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Design Evolution (Jason)
History of designs. Why do they look like they do.
Variable speed – enabler for control of torque loads High speed brakes gone Noise (much reduced) Integration ??? Design tools much improved Margins much lower Standards (assisted development of design practice now used
for rest of the industry) Size, lubrication, condition monitoring,
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Drivetrain Evolution
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010
Drivetrain rating increasing
Lubrication additives and filtration
High failure rates & noise
Variable speed introduced
High speed brakeseliminated
Wind turbine standards development40,000 hr. rebuilds required
Condition monitoring
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42006 Wind Program Peer Review
State of the art in drivetrain design
Vestas, 4.5 MW
Enercon, 6 MW Multibrid, 5 MW Clipper, 2.5 MW
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Design Problems Plaguing Industry Gearbox failures have plagued the wind industry since early 80s. Current life much less than 20 years, even using best practice Reliability remains an issue throughout the drivetrain
– Mainshaft and gearbox bearings—especially planetary spherical roller bearings
– Housing deflections?– Power electronics IGBT failures– Others
Planetary Bearing Inner Race and Roller Failure •A. Toms - Gastops
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Sample Wind Turbine Data
Critical Mass Loss
Critical Mass Rate
Related to AFRL Prognostics
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Program contributions (Walt)
Dyno history of contributions (industry partnerships)understanding field problemsqualifying production prototypesqualifying new braking controls, lubricants, gear tooth leadtesting new concepts
multi gen (clipper)NPS (DDG) (WindPact)GEC (mediuim speed gen) (WindPact)
Standards supportrole in AGMA / IEC 61400-4gearbox guideline by errichello
WindPact drive train studyPrototypes
NPS DDGGEC hybrid
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What should the DOE program be doing to foster High-Reliability Systems?
High-ReliabilitySystems
Appropriate Environmental
Conditions
Accurate Loads &Design Requirements
Designed-in
Reliabilit
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Condition M
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Reduced Failure Rates Improved O&M
System R
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O&M Data Base
Designed-in
Maintainability
Full- S ca leTe st in g
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Current Programs (Full Scale Dyno Tests)
NPS WindPact Direct Drive Gen prototype test
GEC WindPact medium speed drive prototype test
NPS
GEC
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Current Program (Improved O&M) Drive train R&D needs workshop (NREL 4/05)
– Identified near term needs (failure data, industry collaborative root cause analysis, condition monitoring)
– Loads validation– Greater integration between loads codes and internal stress codes– DDG appear to be heavier/more costly but hold promise for greater
reliability and lower cost with R&D, especially for offshore
Predictive Maintenance Management workshop (NREL 4/20/06)– CM technology for gearing & bearings available but challenge to
apply it economically to wind.– Other areas unique to wind turbines unexploited. (blades,
automated fault diagnosis, model assisted load monitoring, poor performance diagnosis.
– Need for integrated SCADA systems, O&M management systems and automated data interpretation tools.
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Opportunities: (Reducing Failure Rates)
Reliability tools Second generation WindPact drive train study under
SeaCon and prototypes. Loads Code/Gearbox internal stress code integration
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Integrated Codes are Needed Component Level
– Determine design integrity of individual components based on specified loads
– Single-physics model– Not industry-specific– Commercial products available
(ANSYS, etc.)
Full System Level
– Determine loads throughout full system for component level analysis
– Multi-physics model– Wind industry-specific– Simple modeling of components
Component Level
– Single-physics model– Uncoupled loads do not capture
housing flexure– Commercial products available
(ANSYS, ADAMS, SimPack)?
•L. Mumper - SKF
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Opportunities: Industry Collaboration
O&M database – Develop automated diagnostics– Identify R&D needs– Fuel reliability models
Predictive Maintenance Management (PdM)– Sandy will finish this.
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Gearbox premature mortality investigation project (Walt)
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Opportunities: Exploring new concepts
SEACON extension of WindPACT drivetrain study1. Survey existing concepts2. Cost estimates3. Reliability estimates4. Better understand the direct drive / geared system reliability and cost tradeoff
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Future Plans (Sandy) More workshops planned
– O&M Practices (SNL Sept 06)– Predictive Maintenance Management II (NREL March 07)
SeaCon Drivetrain concept studies
Attempt to organize industry collaboratives– Gearbox failure investigation– O&M data base– Condition monitoring opportunities