Test results of TNO WT-Bird® trial at the University of Minnesota (public)
report
The instrumentation of the WT-Bird® system installed at the Clipper turbine at the University of Minnesota is described in detail in report TNO 2022 R10697, “WT-Bird installation plan at University of Minnesota”[1] and TNO 2022 R11392, “WT-Bird installation report University of Minnesota “ [2]. This report aims at the results of the trial period from 2022-07-21 until 2022-11-03. The period of interest is limited from 2022-08-13 until 2022-11-03 due to start up issues with the existing network in the turbine and wear of the pitch gears. The latter re sulted in a loud noise twice a rotation per blade which affected the WT-Bird system and was solved by applying an offset of 5 degrees to the pitch system. The issues with the network were solved by replacing and reconfiguring network equipment. Chapter 2 describes the summary of the detected collisions in the period from 2022-08-13 until 2022-11-03, Chapter 3 describes every detected collision in detail and chapter 4 con tains the conclusion and recommendations
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TNO Identifier
1014325
Publisher
TNO
Collation
34 p.
Place of publication
Petten