Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Building the world’s most powerful gearbox for wind turbines - the Winergy 8 MW gearbox

I found this docuvertisment interesting. The gearbox for a wind turbine is not scalable, that is, the problems you encounter at bigger sizes can't be conquered by just scaling everything proportionately to the next size.
And in the testing phase, things that are hard to predict are vibration and efficiency.

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