Lubrication and condition monitoring for wind power plants

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Lubrication and condition monitoring for wind power plants

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Please note: This training will be presented in English language!

Targets

Differences between knowing and interpreting lubricant types
Correct selection of the optimal lubricant for an economic and reliable operation of your facilities and machines
Extension of oil changing intervals for gear and hydraulic oils
Cost reduction and extended oil usage through better filtration and oil care
Early recognition of unusual wear and failures
Investigation of causes of faliure after breakdowns
Extraction of meaningful oil samples
Oil analysis in pro-active maintenance
Interpretation of lab reports
Warning values for evaluation of machine damages and oil condition
Advantages and functionality of multigrade hydraulic oils
Simplification of amount of sorts of greases in use, optimization of relubrication intervals
Warning and limit values for used greases

Target group

Maintenance managers and service technicians of wind parks
Service technicians, mechanics and service Partners of producers of wind power plants
Executives of wind parks in which maintenance and servicing is done by own staff
Skilled employees working in construction, service and distribution of wind power plants
Distribution engineers and sellers of lubricating oils and greases
Producers of full- and partial flow filters for gear and hydraulic oils
Suppliers of gears, rolling bearings and components for wind power plants
Application engineers working in mobile labs as well as for on-site condition monitoring and fluid management
Authorized experts for failure analysis and machine breakdown
Technically interested employees who want to extend their knowledge in the areas lubrication techniques and tribology

Basic training (3 days)

3-day basic training

Fundamentals of lubrication

Basic principles for a formation of a lubricating film (hydrodynamic, hydrostatic, EHD)
Most important characteristic values of lubricants(viscosity, viscosity-temperature-behaviour)

Fundmentals of lubricants

Mineral oils and synthetic oils in comparison
Advantages and disadvantages of the different fluid types and the resulting applications
Function and effect of additives, calibration on the applicable bubricant

Gear oils

General functions of gear oils
Specific lubrication requirements on different gear construction methods, especially planetary gears
Standardized gear oils in accordance to gear oil norms
Minimum requirements, officially released products of producers, special gear oils
Advantages and pecularities in the application of synthetic lubricants

Hydraulic fluids

Functions of hydraulik oils as pressure fluids
Important parameters for the selection of a suitable hydraulic oil
Standardized hydraulic oil types and their areas of application (Mineral oils, biologic oils)
Often occuring oil or operational failures at hydraulics and their causes

Lubricants in use

Ageing of lubricants
Transformations of base oils, oil oxidation
Reduction and uptake rate of additives
Causes and effects of contaminations
Input of external oil and mixture Vermischung
Problems and their causes: air and water in oil (foam formation, cavitiation)
Mixture and miscibility of oils

Sampling procedure

Sampling: Why, when, how, how often, how many?
Methods and devices for sampling
Information for the lab: Required data, sampling datasheet
Information from the lab: Setup of lab reports
Influence of missing information

Analysis methods

Methods to determine wear metals, oil condition and contamination
Significance and areas of application for the most important testing methods
Testing range for routine checks
Analysis methods for special questions

Fundamentals for the evaluation of oil analysis

Fundamental principles
Warning and limit values, trend evaluation
Examples from the OELCHECK database for gear analysis of wind power plants

Interpretation of oil analysis lab results

Independent Interpretation of lab reports as group work
Interpretation on the Basis of real examples from the database of wind power samples from OELCHECK

Effective usage of online service

Sampling data sheets, effective sampling administration
Lab reports online
Create statistics and graphs
„Knowledge from A-Z“

Oil cleanliness and life time

Contamination through particles, water
As clean as necessary, not as clean as possible: practical cleanliness requirements from different areas of application
Actions to secure requirements
Filtration
Examples and tips

Greases

Greases: Basic oils, thickener types, additive typical areas of application
Norming of grease types
Relubrication: How to proceed and relubrication deadlines
Important characteristic values of greases
Miscibility of greases

Analysis methods for greases

Determination of wear metals, basic oil and grease condition, contamination
Meaningfulness and areas of application for the most important testing methods
Testing range for routine checks
Analysis methods for special questions

Workshop (1 day)

1-day workshop

Detailed diagnosis of analysis results

Independent interpretation of lab reports as group work
Interpretation on the basis of real examples from the database of wind power samples from OELCHECK

Grease lubrication of rolling bearings in wind power plants

Requirements for greases for the lubrication of rotor-, pitch, azimut- und generator bearings
Greases for open gearings
Fundamental procedures and important criteria for the selection of a suitable grease
Normed grease types and their typical characteristics
Areas of application for standardized greases

Commenting of analysis results

Independent interpretation of lab reports as group work
Interpretation on the basis of real examples from the database of wind power samples from OELCHECK

Examination methods on-site

Visual testing methods: evaluation of color changes, cloudiness, suddenly darkening or thickening
Possible causes of measureable alterations in dependency of the utilization
On-site-measuring, possible equipment and methods and their meaningfulness
Online-sensors, their measureing principles, meaningfulness and influences of parasitic Errors
Examples for sensors and on-site equipment

Lubrication and condition monitoring for wind power plants

Next dates:

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Please note: This training will be presented in English language!

Targets

Target group

Basic training (3 days)

3-day basic training

Fundamentals of lubrication

Fundmentals of lubricants

Gear oils

Hydraulic fluids

Lubricants in use

Sampling procedure

Analysis methods

Fundamentals for the evaluation of oil analysis

Interpretation of oil analysis lab results

Effective usage of online service

Oil cleanliness and life time

Greases

Analysis methods for greases

Workshop (1 day)

1-day workshop

Detailed diagnosis of analysis results

Grease lubrication of rolling bearings in wind power plants

Commenting of analysis results

Examination methods on-site

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