This webinar was presented live on Wednesday, October 14, 2020. Click below to watch it on demand. Demand for clean energy sources across the world are growing, and offshore wind generation represents one of the most abundant and economic power generation alternatives available today. As more offshore wind farms are established, however, the…
Freudenberg designs new radial shaft seal ring for main bearings in wind turbines
The global expansion of wind-power facilities is proceeding unabated. Based on figures from Global Wind Energy Council, nearly 487 GW of output from wind energy were in place at the end of 2016. At the start of the decade, the installed output wasn’t even half that amount. It is not just the number of facilities that…
FEA and optimizer find a best design for a turbine bearing seal
An engineering firm that designs seals for wind turbine bearings used finite-element analysis software to simulate the performance of a seal or gasket and then an optimizing package to run through hundreds of design and material possibilities to find a best fit for a wind turbine’s wide operating range. “Reliable designs are what I call…