Harsh environmental conditions and long lifecycles – wind turbine generators place high demands on electrical engineering. To ensure the efficiency of your systems in the long term, our experts use their many years of technical expertise and passion to focus on the challenges you face. Excellent products which are intelligently combined to form innovative systems are at the heart of our solutions. Extended with industry-specific features, we develop solutions which are rounded out by engineering, servicing, and training services. Benefit from sophisticated technology for your wind turbine generator – on land or at sea.
Permanent monitoring and analysis of wind turbine generators is essential. Condition monitoring focuses on parts subject to particular stress, such as the drive train and the generator. With increasing turbine sizes, monitoring the rotor blades is also becoming increasingly important. Condition monitoring systems allow wind turbine generators to be operated much more efficiently, as downtimes for maintenance and repair are reduced to a minimum.
Modular rotor blade monitoring
Our solution for optimized system operation
Rotor blades are exposed to high loads. They have a high potential for wear and damage. Based on the requirements, Phoenix Contact provides a tailored combination of our solutions for rotor blade monitoring. The modular design of our Blade Intelligence solution features a combination of the individual systems.
Blade Intelligence – individual systems
Reliable operation of your wind turbine generator
Modern wind turbine generators are monitored by countless sensors. The rotor blades in particular are being equipped with an ever-increasing number of sensors. The regular operation of the wind turbine generator is monitored and optimized, and damage is also detected at an early stage. Repairs and maintenance can thus be planned more easily. Structural monitoring is an essential part of this sensor technology. It is used to continuously observe how the structure of the rotor blades changes during operation.
Data acquisition via real-time measurement
Wind turbines are often exposed to lightning strikes. Previously it was difficult to provide proof of lightning strikes and their intensity.
The LM-S complete solution from Phoenix Contact allows lightning strikes to the blades of a wind turbine generator to be accurately measured and analyzed.
Continuous remote monitoring and consolidation of the measured data with the operating parameters of the wind turbine generator provide a better basis for making decisions regarding predictive maintenance.
Robust sensor design
Rotor blades are subjected to extreme environmental conditions and strain. Due to the ever-increasing length of blades, growing demands are placed on monitoring. The rotor monitoring system (RM-S) from Phoenix Contact continuously monitors the stress and loads placed on the rotor blades. When the set limit values are exceeded, alarms are sent, and operators are always kept informed of the condition of the blades.
Innovative measuring technology
Icing on the rotor blades not only leads to hazards for the wind turbine generator, but also to hazards for the environment and people.
Phoenix Contact provides a reliable ice detection system for rotor blades for increasing the yields of your wind turbine generators. Our solution measures the coating thicknesses of potential ice deposits and the temperature directly on the surface of the rotor blade.
Phoenix Contact offers intelligent solutions that you can use to efficiently automate sub-applications, complete WTGs, and even a wind farm. Phoenix Contact control and software solutions allow you to stay competitive and respond flexibly to dynamically changing circumstances.
Integration of subsystems
High availability of your wind turbine generators
Increase your system availability using our control solution with multi-core processor. With the elimination of a separate data processing controller for condition systems, you reduce your hardware costs.
Efficient system development
Model-based system development
Model your wind turbine generator in Matlab Simulink and perform diagnostics on your models, including debugging, without a Matlab license on our modular software platform.
This software platform speeds up your engineering process, thanks to the reusability of user-specific automation modules and object-oriented programming.
All data at a glance
Retrieve, monitor, and track data at any time
The dashboards in the Time Series Data Service of the Proficloud.io IIoT platform from Phoenix Contact are a comprehensive, cloud-based solution for monitoring wind turbine generators. You can check the condition of your wind turbine generators online at any time. You can directly take the necessary measures to prevent damage.
Thanks to PLCnext Technology, our open control platform, you can easily integrate applications developed in high-level languages into your overall system. Individual modules can even be updated or maintained during operation. You determine the core on which the program sequences are run, and which task they are synchronized with.
PLCnext Technology is the basis of the new, open control platform from Phoenix Contact. It offers a comprehensive, coordinated portfolio for tunnel technology, thus enabling quick and reliable engineering. Easy adaptation to the individual requirements of operators are also possible with it, thanks to the integration of open source software, apps, and future technologies.
You can implement new IoT-based business models through direct connection to cloud-based services and databases.
