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The Technical Problems in the Operation and Maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines
Date:2019-02-14
Offshore wind power generation is an important part of the development of the new energy industry. In many countries, offshore wind power development has reached a new level. Whether from the growth of new installed capacity, or from the cumulative growth rate of installed capacity, offshore wind power installed faster than the overall market growth. The global wind power installed capacity has increased by 12 percent over the same period, the offshore wind power installed capacity has increased by 71 percent over the same period last year, and the offshore wind power installed capacity growth rate has continued to rise.
 
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As the scale of offshore wind power expands, so does the problem of offshore wind power operation and maintenance. We know that offshore wind turbines consist of a number of precise resistors, MOS transistors, capacitors, transistors and other electronic components. And these need to be overhauled. So what are the other challenges in addition to these offshore wind power operation and maintenance technologies?
 
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The operation and maintenance of offshore wind power generation is obviously affected by the tide. There are many problems, such as strong winds, fog, thunderstorm weather, large shoals, difficult access, difficult choice of transportation equipment, short effective time for offshore maintenance operations and high safety risk and lack of large maintenance equipment.
 
The operation and maintenance mode of offshore wind power is based on the experience of onshore wind power, which is mainly planned and overhauled, and is supplemented by fault maintenance. The planned overhaul can effectively promote the defect elimination and meet the safety operation of the unit, but it also has obvious disadvantages, such as undermaintenance and blind maintenance and so on.
 
Offshore wind turbine has high failure rate and heavy maintenance work. Many countries try to build offshore wind power projects, but many generators are mostly made of onshore units adapted to the marine environment, lack of enough test experience. The fan used in complex offshore environment, the failure rate remains high. In Europe and America, however, wind turbines made of high-precision resistors and new materials can effectively avoid these problems.
 
 
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Generally speaking, there are many difficulties in offshore wind power operation and maintenance technology, but these problems still cannot change the rapid development of wind power generation. In many countries in Europe, offshore wind turbines produced by high-precision resistors are used. In the face of a lot of harsh natural environment can also work, thereby reducing a lot of failures and increasing offshore wind power generation.