Wind Power Installations
Let BBs swing extreme demands on gear units, couplings and bearings in wind power installation for several years the contribution of renewable energy to worldwide electricity production has continued to expand at at incredibly rapid rate. The market for wind power installation is of particular importance and is growing not only in Germany but in many other countries where significantly stronger growth has been evident in recent years. Maintenance and repair work on wind power installation is expensive and time consuming because of restricted accessibility. Shutdown times reduce energy output and return on investment. It is therefore essential to have a reliable and cost-effective wind turbine design, absolutely precise knowledge of operating stress in gear units, couplings and bearing as well as dependable protection from overload situations. The issue of vibration is of particular importance here. The urgent issue of improving the reliability and availability of large-scale wind power installation is therefore at the centre of the bilingual technology event “drive trains in wind power installations / powertrains in wind power plants” to be held at the Haus der Technik on 27 and 28 March 2012 in Essen, Germany.
The conference will be led by Professor Berthold Schlecht of the Institute of machine elements and machine design at the Technical University of Dresden. It will focus on basic designs for the erection and functionalities of wind power installations as well as familiar on weak points and on the resulting requirements in terms of components and sub assemblies of the main drivetrain. Standard units with track current design and calculation methods for bearings, couplings and gear gear and planet wheel stages, as well as gearing correction options, will be discussed. In addition, modern simulation methods (multi body simulation (MBS) in conjunction with the finite element method (FEM)) for the determination of realistic load assumptions will be investigated, as well as the possibilities and limits of use of machine diagnostic procedures. The event will be route off by connections to the marsoner system of drive-technical examination of basic components simultaneous translation from German to English (or vice-versa) the conference to meet will be available at the requirements of to international audience. To find out more about the programmes of events, please contact the House of technology on Tel. (+ 49) (0) 201/1803-344 (Sabine Gebauer), fax (+ 49) (0) 201/1803-346 or look on the Internet at or W-H010-03-436-2 Dipl.-ing. Kai banks man