What is the Best Way to Assess This?
Turbine damage is still an everyday reality in the lifetime of a wind park. Owners are frustrated by repeated gearbox failures or blade repairs. In order to minimise failure rates and downtime it is becoming increasingly common to use independent assessors to check the status of the whole turbine or of certain critical parts like the gearbox or main bearings.
By Jürgen Holzmüller, Dietmar Obst, Jochen Ziehmann and Rüdiger Kipke, 8.2, Germany