Wind Energy Overview
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National Instruments provides the Essential Technologies for Test, Control, and Monitoring within the Wind Energy Industry. Learn about how National Instruments and these technologies are helping to drive Innovation. |
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Technical Tutorials
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The following section is an information portal to technical documents, whitepapers, and reference architectures for Wind Energy. The links below are redirects to specific content on applications such as wind turbine control system design and turbine condition monitoring. |
- Wind Turbine Control Methods – This document explores the fundamental conceptsac and control methods/techniques for wind turbine control systems
- Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring – This document discusses some of the major components of a wind turbine you should monitor and which NI devices you can use to do this
- Power Quality Monitoring and Power Metering Tutorial – This tutorial provides an overview of three phase electricity basics and then discusses three of the most common power quality events: leading/lagging power, saq/swell/interruptions, and harmonics
- Simulating a Wind Turbine – The following architecture demonstrates how to simulate a full wind turbine system, including the wind turbine, mechanical drive train, generator, power grid, and controller
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Case Studies
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National Instruments products are used from Acoustic Emissions Testing to Power Quality Monitoring and from Blade Testing to on-line turbine condition monitoring. Learn how companies such as Siemens, GE Wind, and Vestas are using NI products. |
Acoustic Emissions Testing
Control System Testing and Design
Generator and Gearbox Testing and Monitoring
Grid Integration and Power Quality Monitoring
Structural Testing and Monitoring
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Application Areas
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As discussed above, National Instruments plays a part in the Wind Energy Industry as a hardware and software technolgoy provider for Test, Control, and Monitoring. For more specific information on any particular application areas, click on the links below. |
Structural Testing and Monitoring
- Blade Testing
- Blade Monitoring
- Structural Monitoring
Generator and Gearbox Testing and Monitoring
- Machine Acceptance Test
- Online Gearbox Monitoring
- Bearing Fault Detection
Grid Integration and Power Quality Monitoring
- Grid Fault Detection
- Power Quality Monitoring
- Power Factor Correction
Control System Testing and Design
- HIL System Design
- Pitch/Yaw Control
- Field-Oriented Control
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