Online health assessment of wind turbine based on operational condition recognition.

To reduce the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs, the health assessment of wind turbine has received more and more attention in recent years. However, it is difficult to evaluate the health condition of wind turbine due to the complex and non-stationary operation environment. This paper proposes a data-driven approach for online health assessment of wind turbine based on operational condition recognition. First, the operational condition parameters are selected by analyzing the monitoring data of wind turbine. Considering the time-varying of operation environment, the operational conditions are divided into four subspaces utilizing the K-means clustering algorithm. Then, using the historical state parameters data under normal operation, a health benchmark model is constructed in each operational condition space based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). Further, a Softmax model is trained according to the results of operational condition classification, which is used to identify the online operational condition of wind turbine. Moreover, an overall health index (HI) based on Mahalanobis distance is developed to assess the health condition of wind turbine. Finally, the method is verified by the actual supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data of a wind field in northwestern China. The test results show that the proposed approach can track the running state of the wind turbine accurately and play a good role in early fault warning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]