Gearbox faults are one of the most common and severe causes of energy losses in large
wind turbine technology. Further, degradation of gearboxes is an elusive phenomenon by …

Lack of effective intelligent monitoring systems of big wind turbines is a crucial problem in
their exploitation. The used systems are based on direct monitoring of the system …

An online clustering task is considered for machine state monitoring purpose. In the previous
authors' researches a classical ART-2 network was tested for online classification of …

The lack of sustainability and negative environmental impacts of using fossil fuel resources
for energy production and their consequent increase in prices during last decades have led …

Biomass is a promising alternative energy source for fossil fuel with the advantages of
abundance, renewability, environmental friendliness, etc. This makes the development of …

The diffusion of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems has
revolutionized the management of wind farms. Advanced performance optimization can lead …

The paper compares the requirements for vibration-based condition monitoring system for
two seemingly similar rotary machines, namely horizontal and vertical-axis wind turbines …

An experimental study is conducted on wind turbine wakes and their effects on wind turbine
performances and operation. The test case is a wind farm located on a moderately complex …

Even if wind energy technology is nowadays fully developed, the use of wind energy in very
complex terrain is still challenging. In particular, it is challenging to characterize the …

This work deals with wind energy exploitation in complex terrain. The topic in general poses
several scientific challenges about the comprehension of wind flow on its own and of the …