TY - GEN
T1 - Future transmissions for wind turbines
AU - Höhn, Bernd Robert
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Most transmissions for wind turbines are set up by multiple consecutively arranged planetary gear sets and/or normal gear sets. Therefore these transmissions have a constant ratio. In order to feed the electricity produced by the wind turbines into the grid, an electric conversion to a constant frequency of 50 Hz is necessary. FZG developed a new concept for transmissions of wind turbines based on a planetary gear. By superposition of a small electric engine the transmission ratio is continuously variable. This makes an electric conversion unnecessary and thereby increases the efficiency of the wind turbine.
AB - Most transmissions for wind turbines are set up by multiple consecutively arranged planetary gear sets and/or normal gear sets. Therefore these transmissions have a constant ratio. In order to feed the electricity produced by the wind turbines into the grid, an electric conversion to a constant frequency of 50 Hz is necessary. FZG developed a new concept for transmissions of wind turbines based on a planetary gear. By superposition of a small electric engine the transmission ratio is continuously variable. This makes an electric conversion unnecessary and thereby increases the efficiency of the wind turbine.
KW - Next generation for transmissions for wind turbines
KW - Optimization of efficiency and durability
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85019298998
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-6558-0_6
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-6558-0_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85019298998
SN - 9789400765573
T3 - Mechanisms and Machine Science
SP - 99
EP - 111
BT - Power Transmissions - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference
A2 - Dobre, George
PB - Springer Netherlands
T2 - 4th International Conference on Power Transmissions, PT 2012
Y2 - 20 June 2012 through 23 June 2012
ER -