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18. October 2019, morewind sponsors small wind turbine

  morewind sponsored a group of 10 people building a 800W wind turbine out of recycled and sustainable materials as far as possible. The turbine has 8.5m hub height and 3m diameter and was installed recently on the field of a community supported agriculture (Feldrandkultur e.V.). The turbine runs off-grid and charges batteries. The stored energy is used to supply a water pump for irrigation. The turbine concept is from Hugh Piggot ( https://scoraigwind.co.uk ). Many materials like cables and steel are from the scrapyard. The blades are handcarved wood impregnated with linseed oil. The generator is selfmade using ecofriendly ferrit magnets. The batteries are sorted out wheel chair batteries....

Video of the construction:

https://vimeo.com/361276750

 

25. June 2019, new tip to tower clearance measurement system

 

 

 In close cooperation WIND-consult GmbH and morewind engineering solutions GmbH have successfully completed the first milestone of the R&D project funded by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the European Union for surveying tower clearance at wind turbines.

 

After the first phase of the project, the high-speed camera technology, motion capture and machine learning-based image acquisition and evaluation system installed in the nacelle delivers reliable results for the distance between the tower and the blade tip while the turbine is in operation. Beginning the second phase of the project, further algorithm optimisations, the merging of the measured data with operating data and the development of market maturity will be realized.

 

Both companies have many years of experience in the field of accredited measurements and load simulations and are convinced to provide with the system an innovative and effective tool to further optimize the design of wind turbines. With increasing rotor diameter, the topic of tower clearance becomes more important than before and thus also for the optimization of the costs of the rotor blades. The claims on precision and traceability of the measurement results follow the requirements of surveying standards with the goal to deliver reliable data for the certification process of wind turbines. The successful completion of the R&D project and the rollout are expected in fall of 2019.

 

 

 

 

27. March 2019, Wind turbine loads and control training at Rio Energy

Morewind provided last week a 3 day workshop on wind turbine loading and control at Rio Energy Projetos de Energia´s headquarter in Rio de Janeiro. It was a pleasure to work with the enthusiastic and dynamic engineering team from Rio Energy Projetos de Energia on such an important topic for wind farm owner and operator.

 

 

 

 

06. January 2019, morewind gets 4 new customer for the load simulation software mwLoADS

 

 

 

06. December 2017, morewind releases a new version of the load simulation software mwLoADS

morewind exhibits at the Wind Energy 2016

 

With the new version of the load simulation software for wind turbines mwLoADS v6.6 morewind engineering solutions GmbH enables even more effective work with simulated and measured data. 

  

The load simulation software mwLoADS facilitates automated generation of input files for the load simulation packages FAST by NREL and parallelizing of the simulation jobs within a computing network. FAST v8 with HydroDyn is now supported enabling the simulation of offshore turbines. Additionally, there now is a multi-parameter variation included accelerating iterations during the design process.

 

Changes have also been made in the postprocessing. The Excel interface has been redesigned to ensure a more legible format of both results of extreme and fatigue analyses as well as load comparisons and envelopes for several turbine variants.
In addition to the FAST-format, the postprocessing and viewer now also support the BLADED and Flex5 timeseries formats as well as measurement data in FAMOS-format and MATLAB files. This enables the comparison of loads from different simulators or measurements.

 

Statistical data like min, max, mean, stdv and 1Hz DEL of 10 min timeseries, usually used for load measurements, now can be created comfortably via mwLoADS.

  

Alterations have also been made on the viewer. Amongst other things, on-the-fly time derivatives and filtering of signals are now possible. Furthermore, timeseries of different formats now can be compared simultaneously.

  

morewind successfully uses mwLoADS for load simulation in different turbine designing projects. Moreover, resulting design load have been successfully approved by certification agencies. morewind CEO, Florian Stache, explains: “The software has been created out of our experiences within load simulation teams of leading OEM and therefore meets the requirements of modern product engineering processes. Especially iteration speed and the time2market requirements are herewith fulfilled.”

 

 

1. June 2017, morewind facilitates a workshop on lifecycle strategies and the role of O&M at IQPC conference in Berlin

morewind exhibits at the Wind Energy 2016

morewind CEO Florian Stache facilitates a workshop on lifecycle strategies and the role of O&M at IQPC conference in Berlin.

The discussion focuses on how data and data analysis supports O&M activities and a holistic view regarding the operation of wind farms. A particular focus is set on performance optimisation possibilities  and life time extension.

 

12. December 2016, Framework contract between ABO Wind and morewind

ABO Wind and morewind are working together on "Performance Analysis"
ABO Wind and morewind are working together on "Performance Analysis"

morewind and ABO Wind Betriebs GmbH started a cooperation on performance analysis by recently signing a framework contract. The ABO Wind Betriebs GmbH, headquartered in Heidesheim, focuses on operational management for wind parks, performs maintenance activities and in addition offers different products regarding expert services to its customers. The company that was founded in 1996 has nearly 500 wind energy turbines to with a nominal capacity of more than 1,000 megawatts under contract.

Both parties now combine their competences in the field of performance analysis. The main aim is to evaluate wind turbines regarding possible turbine specific errors or ways of optimizing them through examining SCADA data. The results are then used to derive suggestions for improvement. ABO Wind contributes a long-time knowledge in turbine technology from operational management and its know-how with subsystems to comply with environmental standards to the cooperation. morewind provides a deep detailed knowledge within turbine technology and control which is based on the previous experiences from development and consulting for large wind turbine manufacturers.


Furthermore, morewind can systematically bring in its expertise in load simulation and prototype testing, whereas in both cases the power curve plays an important role.

“The first performance analysis was performed successfully by morewind”, says Frank Philipp, Project manager for product development at ABO Wind AG, “The next orders are already planned. We are looking forward to a productive collaboration.”
 

06. October 2016, morewind as exhibitor at Wind Energy

morewind exhibits at the Wind Energy 2016

For the second time, morewind was exhibiting at the Wind Energy, the world’s leading expo for the wind industry with more than 35,000 visitors. On four days, from 27. to 30. September 2016, morewind presented its service portfolio in cooperation with its co-exhibitor Andreas Kiehn in Hamburg. The main focus was set on the presentation of the load simulation software mwLoADS, which was developed by morewind and is based on FAST from NREL and enables an efficient wind turbine engineering process. Additionally, morewind presented an installation focusing on the topic “Hardware-in-the-loop”, a way of coupling a wind turbine simulation with real hardware.

We are happy about all the positive responses and numerous visitors and would like to thank Andreas Kiehn!

 

20. July 2016, mwTSViewer: more features available

New features within the mwTSViewer

Summer is ahead of us and with it comes an update of our mwTSViewer. Highlight of the new version: different time series formats can be compared to each other. The team of morewind has added some more functionalities: Axial offsets and scaling can be adjusted for every time series folder. To find files and channels in long lists even faster, a search function is now integrated. An enlarged context menu, easier handling and an optimized surface for a quicker analysis of different time series complete the new mwTSViewer. morewind also put some extra work into the design: The Viewer enables an intelligent selection of line colour and style within the plots to compare time series.

 

29. February 2016, WETI uses mwLoADS

05. January 2016, mwLoADS now running under FAST v8

<img src="update-software-mwLoADS.jpg" alt="Load simulation_Toolbox" />

morewind starts into the New Year with a product update: The load simulation software mwLoADS is now compatible with FAST v8 in connection with the new Modularization Framework from NREL. The morewind software especially supports simulations with BeamDyn, an approach for FEM which is optimal for the modellation of long slender blades in FAST as well as works with HydroDyn on offshore wind turbines. Another benefit of using mwLoADS: Within the postprocessing, measured datas from BLADED and FLEX5 (FAMOS) can be evaluated and visualized.

Further information about the toolbox mwLoADS are available here!