Project WEA Retrofit

Retrofitting of power electronics for wind turbines with asynchronous generator

Subject

Development of condition monitoring system for power electronics of wind turbines to enable predictive maintenance.

Objectives

• Analysis of high-resolution electrical field data to develop model for calculation of remaining service life of power electronics.
• Development of Condition Monitoring Systems (CMS) to enable predictive maintenance.
• Integration of CMS-software in control system of wind turbine power converter.

Project coordinator

Universität Bremen

Support programme

Funded by the German Ministry for Economy and Energy: “Forschung für eine umweltschonende, zuverlässige und bezahlbare Energieversorgung”. Proposal Number: 0325785A-D

Participating companies

Freqcon GmbH, Universität Bremen, Windrad Engineering GmbH, WindGuard Certification GmbH

R&D Scope FREQCON

Development of control algorithms for condition monitoring and integration into control software of wind turbine power converter.

Start/Finish

January 2015 / July 2018