MHI Vestas had installed SPM Instrument’s Intellinova Parallel MB condition monitoring system on the 8MW wind turbines, 32 of which were erected at the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm, according to SPM’s article from 11 September.
Prior to the installation on MHI Vestas commercial units, the system was tested and evaluated over an extended period at the V164 test site in Østerild in northern Denmark.
SPM states that Intellinova Parallel MB is very well suited for managing the special operating conditions of wind turbines, including very low rotational speeds. The system consists of four channels measuring in parallel, and three shock pulse transducers of type 44000 connected to the measuring system to monitor the turbine’s two main bearings and the rotor side bearing of the planetary gearbox.
Since its launch in 2015, the V164-8MW turbine has been uprated, and the currently most powerful serially produced wind turbine is now the V164-9.5MW .