Wind power

Vibration sensors for monitoring wind turbine health

Wind turbine operators and maintenance engineers face big pressure to avoid unplanned outages and expensive costs on unscheduled repairs. Measuring low level vibrations helps to identify problems, provide an early warning of fault conditions, and avoid catastrophic damage. Reliability engineers are experts at keeping wind turbines operational. They use vibration diagnostics to find the root cause of problems and establish a baseline of wind turbine health.

Wind power applications and components where vibration monitoring is used to collect operational data for predictive maintenance to identify operational problems and faults in the early stages include

• Turbines
• Gearbox conditions
• Bearings
• Main shaft
• Tower sway