Gearbox architecture – the type of gearing used, the overallgear ratio, the number of increaser stages, the number of meshes,the ratio combinations, and the gear proportions– can have aprofound effect on the “package” size of a wind turbine. In thispaper the author applies a common set of requirements to a varietyof potential gearbox designs for a 2.0 mW wind turbine and comparesthe resulting “geared component” weights, gearbox envelope sizes,generator sizes, and generator weights. Each design option is alsoevaluated for manufacturing difficulty via a relative costestimate.
- Edition:
- 09
- Published:
- 09/01/2009
- Number of Pages:
- 19
- File Size:
- 1 file , 1.2 MB
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