Development of a baseline as a novel approach for a condition monitoring system for the assessment of wind turbine rotating parts

Current wind turbine condition monitoring process can be time-consuming and costly. These systems failed to achieve the reliability and operational efficiency required by the industry. Existing reports on the monitoring of wind turbine data are restricted to a few historical cases. For certain sensors, like Acoustic Emission (AE), data is yet scarcer 1. In order to overcome this issue, the development of a baseline data analysis method is proposed in this paper. For that, three techniques will be integrated: Acoustic Emission, Operational Modal Analysis and Motor Current Signature Analysis.