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Research Article

Vibration isolation characteristics of magnetorheological damper for the large wind turbine gearbox

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Pages 10330-10349 | Received 23 Sep 2022, Accepted 31 Mar 2023, Published online: 13 Aug 2023
 

ABSTRACT

The gearbox vibration isolation theory in the large wind turbine transmission system is analyzed. The host frame is flexible, and the vibration isolation system is approximately equivalent to a two-degree-of-freedom system. According to large wind turbine gearbox isolation requirement, and a vibration isolation device of magnetorheological damper of the large wind turbine gearbox is designed, the magnetic field characteristics inside the magnetorheological damper are simulated and calculated by using COMSOL, when 0.5, 1, 1.5and 2 A currents are passed through the magnetorheological damper coil, the magnetic induction intensity of the damping gap and the output force of the magnetorheological damper are calculated, it can reach 1300N-5400N, which meets the gearbox vibration isolation requirements. It designed the on-off current control method of the magnetorheological damper. The prototype is tested on a certain type of offshore wind turbine, and the acceleration spectrum signals of the gearbox in the Z direction are collected under the working conditions of 990, 1200 and 2000 r/min. According to the collected data values, the vibration isolation characteristics of the designed magnetorheological damper are analyzed; the data show that the vibration level drop is about 20 dB, and the vibration isolation effect is good. By using the coherence coefficient method to process the measured data, the modified transfer function is obtained, which is consistent with the theoretical transfer function of the vibration model of two-degree-of-freedom system, so it is proved to be reasonable. The vibration isolation characteristics of rubber and the magnetorheological damper are compared at the rated speed, and it shows that the maximum vibration acceleration of the gearbox under the magnetorheological damper reduces from 0.375 m/s2 to 0.175 m/s2, which verify the damping effect of the magnetorheological damper.

Acknowledgements

The research is financially supported by the following: 1. National Vocational Education Teacher Teaching Innovation Team Research Project (YB2020100103), 2. Supported by Foundation of Key Laboratory of Solar Power System Engineering (2023SPKL04).

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Project) [51805503]; Gansu Province Higher Education Innovation Fund Project [2021B-507]; National Vocational Education Teacher Teaching Innovation Team Research Project [YB2020100103].

Notes on contributors

Liang Zhen

Liang Zhen is the main author of the article.

Yongbao Feng

Yongbao Feng is responsible for ensuring that the descriptions are accurate and agreed by all authors.

Zhenhua Zhang

Zhenhua Zhang provides the research ideas, and the contributions to the manuscript have been approved by all authors

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