On the Application of Fluid Power Transmission in Offshore Wind Turbines

Offshore wind energy is currently characterized by the high costs associated with installation and operation. Gearboxes in particular have been singled out as a key source of the high maintenance costs of offshore wind farms. For a given wind speed, the torque of the rotor increases cubically with the diameter of its swept area. As the maximum...

Dynamic Analysis of Fluid Power Drive-trains for Variable Speed Wind Turbines: A Parameter Study

In the pursuit of making wind energy technology more economically attractive, the application of fluid power technology for the transmission of wind energy is being developed by several parties all over the world. This paper presents a dynamic model of a fluid power transmission for variable speed wind turbines and shows a parametric study on...