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CEDRAT Group (CEDRAT and Magsoft Corporation) and the Manitoba HVDC Research Centre have announced their latest evolution in power system electromagnetic transients with the release of PSCAD V4.2. PSCAD (Power Systems Computer-Aided Design) is used by utilities, electrical equipment manufacturers, engineering consultants and research organisations in 60 countries around the world to design and simulate all types of power systems including power electronics and controls.
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QinetiQ's wind sensing tool, the ZephIR LiDAR, has been selected to assess the wind resource for the Beatrice wind farm demonstrator project in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. The ZephIR system will first undergo a series of evaluation and certification tests to ensure the accuracy of its wind measurements. These tests will be conducted by the German company Windtest at two sites, the Brunsbüttel test facility in western Germany and the FINO-1 platform in the North Sea off the German coast.
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ITI Energy and a consortium involving global power systems and services company Rolls-Royce, international energy company ScottishPower and Strathclyde University are to explore the development of new technology to actively manage power distribution networks.
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November saw the anniversary of their fifth year with no gearbox failures. For both the D8 series and the D6 1250 series of turbines it has not been necessary to fix or replace a gearbox. A total of 103 units of D6 1250 turbines and 39 units of D8 series turbines have been installed. 100% gearbox reliability has been achieved from the first D8 2000 (no. 1) installed March 2002 to the present. This achievement has been recognised by the insurance brokers Gerd Augustin GmbH and Power Solutions GmbH. The DeWind D8 and D6 series are some of the few wind turbines to have obtained 100% gearbox reliability. EU Energy Wind is confident that they will maintain this success and their record for reliability will continue in the new D8.2 turbine.
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ITI Energy is investing up to £9.3 million in a large-scale battery system being jointly developed with innovative US-based businesses, Applied Intellectual Capital (AIC) and Electrochemical Design Associates (EDA), and Lotus Engineering in Norwich, England. California-based company EDA will relocate key staff across to Scotland, in the process setting up a new Scottish company Plurion Limited. ITI Energy estimates the potential market for large-scale battery storage to be worth US$ 1 billion by 2020.
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SKF WindCon 2.0 is an expanded version of the company’s wind turbine monitoring system. The new system features WebCon, SKF developed software enabling internet access with the following benefits:
· access to the monitored data via Internet Explorer
· no special software needed to analyse turbine machinery
· no need for a user developed and maintained database (the database is managed and maintained by the SKF system)
· machine trends can be checked daily by many field personnel, instead of a single machine park supervisor
· the system offers Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) data and trend analysis that can be acted upon by field personnel.
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· access to the monitored data via Internet Explorer
· no special software needed to analyse turbine machinery
· no need for a user developed and maintained database (the database is managed and maintained by the SKF system)
· machine trends can be checked daily by many field personnel, instead of a single machine park supervisor
· the system offers Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) data and trend analysis that can be acted upon by field personnel.
SKF WindCon 2.0 can monitor an unlimited number of turbines and turbine data points. The system can monitor any of the following:
· unbalanced condition of the propeller blades
· misalignment
· shaft deflections
· mechanical looseness
· bearing condition
· gear damage
· generator rotor/stator problems
· resonance problems
· poor lubrication conditions.
SKF WindCon 2.0 is certified by Germanischer Lloyd and approved by Allianz.
· unbalanced condition of the propeller blades
· misalignment
· shaft deflections
· mechanical looseness
· bearing condition
· gear damage
· generator rotor/stator problems
· resonance problems
· poor lubrication conditions.
SKF WindCon 2.0 is certified by Germanischer Lloyd and approved by Allianz.
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