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Acciona Windpower pilots new Moventas Exceed high torque density 3 MW gearbox

By Nic Sharpley | August 11, 2014

The new Moventas Exceed high torque density 3 MW gearbox to be piloted by Acciona Windpower in 2015.

The new Moventas Exceed high torque density 3 MW gearbox to be piloted by Acciona Windpower in 2015.

Acciona Windpower has agreed with Moventas on prototype as well as serial deliveries of a 3 MW wind gearbox product based on Moventas’s new Exceed series of high torque density gearboxes.

Acciona Windpower has agreed with Moventas on prototype as well as serial deliveries of a 3 MW wind gearbox product based on Moventas’s new Exceed series of high torque density gearboxes. Deliveries of the new technology will take place in 2015, adding to the on-going 3 MW deliveries Moventas has been making to Acciona since 2009.

The recently entered agreement concerns two Exceed prototype deliveries as well as serial production of the new Exceed gearbox, both of them expected to take place in 2015.

In 2012, Acciona Windpower and Moventas agreed to together develop a new version of Acciona’s very successful 3 MW turbine, with the objective of reducing size and increasing torque density. Outcome of this is the Exceed  gearbox series, a 3 MW and up product platform with the best ratio price/nominal torque in the market that’s now available to the industry.

Exceed provides 20% more torque density with 10 % less size with 100% proven Moventas technology.

– Our engineers took measured gearbox values of the technology we’ve been using for a decade, recalculated them with new design methods and took them to a new level. As a result, with Exceed, Acciona gets more torque out of a smaller and more lightweight gearbox, explains Global  Accounts Manager Pedro Figueiras from Moventas.

Acciona and Moventas already have a long-standing partnership. Deliveries of the existing gearbox concept will also run alongside the serial deliveries of the new Exceed technology in 2015. Over time, Exceed will replace the existing gearbox deliveries. The deliveries are made from Moventas’ highly modern MMW wind gear factory in Finland.

INVITATION
The Moventas Exceed will be launched and presented in the Wind Energy Hamburg 2014 event on 23-26 September, 2014. Media representatives are hereby invited to hear more about the new product series in an open press meeting on the Moventas stand B5/423 on Wednesday, 24 September at 1 pm.

Also read: Moventas provides a lubrication upgrade for WinWind 3 turbines

Moventas
www.moventas.com


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