Uptower Investigation of Main and High-Speed-Shaft Bearing Reliability

Jonathan Keller; Yi Guo; Latha Sethuraman

doi:10.2172/1513196

Uptower Investigation of Main and High-Speed-Shaft Bearing Reliability

Jonathan Keller, Yi Guo, Latha Sethuraman

National Wind Technology Center

Research output: NREL › Technical Report

Abstract

This purpose of this report is to summarize the investigation of the operational conditions conducive to premature main bearing wear and gearbox bearing axial cracking failures in wind turbines. The report fully describes the series of operations conducted and measurements gathered from commissioning of the instrumented drivetrain in January 2017 through the end of the wind season in May 2018.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	50
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1513196
State	Published - 2019

NREL Publication Number

NREL/TP-5000-71529

Keywords

axial cracking failures
gearbox
high speed shaft
wind energy
wind turbines

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