Poseidon Systems deploys wear debris solution
24/11/2021
Poseidon Systems has announced the deployment of its DM4500 wear debris condition monitoring solution across ten sites within the Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions wind turbine fleet.These sites comprise a total of 402 Siemens Gamesa, Suzlon, Nordex and GE wind turbines.
Mark Redding, Poseidon Systems’ Chief Executive and Founder, said: “We appreciate Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions’ forward thinking and innovation in integrating wear debris condition monitoring systems (CMSs) into their already existing vibration-based CMS monitoring programme.
“Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions is a first-class operator of wind and solar assets in the US.
“The team is phenomenal to work with and did a great job installing and integrating the systems.”
Poseidon’s wear debris monitoring solution is being deployed alongside Duke’s existing vibration-based CMS to provide earlier detection of gearbox faults, better fault severity and end-of-life indicators and catastrophic event detection to reduce the risk of more expensive gearbox replacements.
Jeffrey Wehner, Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions’ Vice President of Operations, said: “The addition of the Poseidon wear debris monitoring device to our toolbox will greatly improve our ability to understand the current condition or status of our gearboxes.
“This device, coupled with vibration and lubrication analyses, will allow the team to provide more specific recommendations to extend gearbox life.
“Being able to predict future gearbox events and plan repairs or replacements prior to catastrophic failure will result in cost savings to the business unit.”
With this order, Poseidon Systems is projected to have 10,000 wind turbine condition monitoring kits installed by the end of 2021.
More importantly, this fleet covers the majority of wind turbine gearbox manufacture makes and models.
Using data from Poseidon Systems’ installed base, Poseidon will continue to work with Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions and other wind customers to develop more advanced detection alarms and life extension algorithms.
This development has extended to the recent integration of journal bearings on wind turbine gearboxes, utilising the DM4500’s superior detection range of non-ferrous materials for earlier and more confident detection of emerging faults.
