Turbines grow larger, gearbox cost increase. It will be standard to monitor the mechanical torque of geared drivetrains using fiber-optic sensors.
Wind energy harnesses the natural power of wind to generate electricity, offering a sustainable and renewable energy source. Wind farms play crucial roles in meeting global energy demands and reducing carbon emissions at lowest cost of energy.
- GearUp; world’s 1ste optical driveline monitoring system
- Know exactly how the turbine’s driveline is used
- Predict previously undetected failures early
- Data based insight in useful remaining life and value
Increased turbine size drives towards more complex and expensive gearboxes, with increased maintenance cost
Classical monitoring technologies do not predict planetary stage failures of a gearbox on time
How the turbine is operated is unknown to most wind park owners and operator.
Benefits of GearUp: Optical wind driveline monitoring
- New monitoring parameters: Measure real-time shaft torque, load sharing in combination with accurate vibration data give detailed insights in the driveline condition and status.
- Early failure detection: Unique monitoring of gearbox faults; (journal) bearings, planet and teeth failure, reducing unexpected failures, by combine operation and vibration data.
- Used life: With torque available used life status is derived at all times and will give insights about remaining useful life and failure probability of the complete driveline.
Trusted by global wind companies:
Sensing360 offers advanced optical sensor technology designed to monitor critical parameters in real-time.
Our sensors provide precise data that enable predictive maintenance and optimize turbine performance.
- Reduced maintenance costs: Our new monitoring insights facilitate targeted maintenance, minimizing unnecessary interventions and costs of “the-hard-to” monitor gearbox.
- Prevention of unplanned downtime: Operation data combined with vibration data help schedule maintenance quicker and earlier, ensuring consistent energy production.
- Lifetime extension: With torque; remaining life and value is determined, which allows for advanced park control to extent life at normal operational cost.
Sensing360’s optical sensor solutions
We offer significant improvements
Implementing Sensing360’s optical sensor solutions has demonstrated significant improvements:
- 25%
Reliability Increase: Up to 25% improvement in turbine reliability.
- 15%
Energy Output Optimization: Enhanced energy production efficiency by 15%.
- 30%
Maintenance Cost Reduction: Achieved a 30% decrease in maintenance expenses.
- 40%
Downtime Reduction: Unplanned downtime reduced by 40%.
Sensing360 dashboard
Real-Time Insights, Smarter Decisions
Unlock the power of real-time data with Sensing360’s advanced dashboard. Monitor, analyze, and optimize your rotating equipment with precision.
Try our Sensing360 dashboard
Track how your asset is used by real-time operating parameters as torque and load sharing of the gearbox and driveline.
Detect previously undetectable gearbox failures on the planetary stage and it’s bearings.
Measure your used capacity of your complete turbine’s driveline and determine remaining useful life and probability of failure.
Connect securely to your data and operation information anytime and anywhere via our cloud interface.
Got any questions? Get in touch with Eric.
Eric van Genuchten
Operation Officer
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Vibration monitoring detect failures before they occur, so maintenance can be planned and downtime can be prevented. By adding operation parameters to vibration monitoring, more precise estimations can be made and analysis is easier.
This can done directly from our edge device to your scada, PLC or test system or via an API from our cloud database.
All rotating equipment from motors, pumps and wind and marine drivelines to large application as tunnelboring, mining or paper production.