With the increasing scale of offshore wind turbine installations and the continuous expansion into deeper waters
fault warning and maintenance of offshore wind turbines face significant challenges. The pitch system is one of the components with the highest failure rates in offshore wind turbines
and traditional fault prediction methods can no longer meet the operational requirements. Therefore
it is essential to implement health assessment and fault warning for offshore wind turbines.
Method
This paper systematically reviewed potential failure points throughout the enti
re process of the pitch system
along with their primary manifestations and the evolution patterns of fault characteristics
providing a mechanistic foundation and interpretability for the development of a health assessment model for the pitch system. Based on mechanism analysis
data analysis
machine learning algorithms and Mahalanobis distance calculation were applied to present the health status of the pitch system in real time.
Result
By leveraging health assessment and sliding window techniques
light faults and severe faults are effectively distinguished. Additionally
corresponding health warnings and maintenance recommendations are provided based on the probability of light faults occurring.
Conclusion
Through early warning and proactive maintenance
the reliability of equipment is improved
major failures probability are reduced and downtime and operation and maintenance costs are saved at the same time.
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