Wind Turbine Case Study: ShockLog 298 Industry: Power Generation Application: Windfarm Logistics/Windfarm Installation Challenge: The 400MW Trianel Windpark Borkum (TWB) is being built 250 miles/402 km offshore the Borkum island in the North Sea. Spread over 21 square miles, it is the first fully large-scale municipal offshore project in Europe; including 80 wind turbines. To prevent the costs associated with installation of a damaged turbine, TWB needed to understand what types of events would cause damage to their wind turbines and then monitor for those events. Solution: TWB selected the ShockLog 298 impact recorder for its ability to record direction, amplitude, and duration of impact forces. TWB determined that low frequency impacts (duration > 50 milliseconds) would be enough to cause a wind turbine to fail prematurely. Once TWB knew what type of event would cause damage to their turbines, they purchased ShockLog 298s to monitor all 80 turbines for those events during transport, storage, and installation.

Wind Turbine Case Study: ShockLog 298 Real-Time Impact Data The ShockLog 298 is a highly durable impact recorder that can be configured to monitor critical parameters, providing an unmistakable alert that an impact to a shipment or equipment may have compromised its integrity, performance, or safe operation. The ShockLog 298 monitors impact, events, vibration, and internal temperature and provides peak value (time slot) and summary period journey profile data. Combined with either a cellular communication module (ShockLog Cellular) or Satellite communication (ShockLog Satellite), the ShockLog...