Sistema de detección de patologías en aerogeneradores mediante el uso de un gemelo digital y técnicas de inteligencia artificial
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Acronym: AERO-TWIN
Reference: CPP2021-008519
Partners: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) and Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables, S.A (ITER).
Duration: 2022-2025
Budget: 482,239.66 €
Co-Financing: Public-Private Partnership 2021. State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2021-2023. Ministry of Science and Innovation. Project CPP2021-008519 funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/ PRTR.
Project overview
The objective of the AERO-TWIN project is the development of an integral wind turbine monitoring system, which allows the identification and diagnosis of existing defects in all the main elements of a wind turbine (drive train, generator, tower and foundations) and the subsequent prediction of its evolution for its predictive maintenance.
The system to be developed in the project will be based on the use of non-intrusive sensors located in different parts of the wind turbine. Its main innovations lie in the control of the different elements that make up the mechanical part of the wind turbine from the electrical values of the generator (using a Neural Network) and, on the other hand, in the control of the state of the tower and the foundations by means of sensors that do not affect the operation or the structure, through which possible anomalies are detected by means of a Neural Network.
Once developed, the system is expected to be marketed as a service for companies responsible for the operation and maintenance of wind farms. Among its main impacts, it is expected to have a positive impact on decision making and minimisation of downtime by detecting failures at an early stage, and on carrying out planned and optimised maintenance activity to save costs, which is increasingly important given that as turbine capacity grows, the costs associated with downtime and repairs also increase.
The AERO-TWIN project (CPP2021-008519), coordinated by ITER’s Wind Energy department, will last 36 months and is funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the State Research Agency (10.13039/501100011033) and by the European Union in the framework of the EU’s Next Generation EU Recovery Plan and Spain’s Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).
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