Patents pending technology captures data analysis methods
Focus on innovate approaches improve wind asset maintenance, performance
July 23, 2020 (Buffalo, NY) – ACCIONA and Sentient Science have filed two patent applications related to determining asset health state and component life. The patent applications have been delivered through the“Turbines for Life” partnership, which was entered in 2015.
The first patent pending –METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING RISK OF OBSERVABLE DAMAGE IN WIND TURBINE GEARBOX COMPONENTS – identifies a technical approach for fusing data collected in the field through operations and asset monitoring to significantly improve predictions for calculating asset health state and remaining life for wind turbines. These date points include field data, configuration data, maintenance event data, data science model outputs, physics model outputs, and other data sources.
The second patent pending – A METHOD FOR ESTIMATING REMAINING USEFUL LIFE OF COMPONENTS OF AN OPERATIONAL WIND TURBINE – delivers a novel approach to improving data correlation and model output by taking into account the turbine operation state.
Combining the concepts within these patent pending technologies with Sentient Science’s existing Intellectual Property and ACCIONA’s extensive data sets has demonstrated improved prediction results for fielded wind turbine assets. “The advancements in asset management decision-making delivered by these innovative methods hold the key to extending turbine life delivering real savings to customers and electrical system operators.” Says Stephane Attal, CEO of Sentient Science.
The end result is the ability to further lower Operation and Maintenance Costs by being able to identify more of the assets running with damage.
About ACCIONA Energía:
ACCIONA Energía is a global operator in renewable energies with over 20 years’ experience in the sector. It owns 219 wind farms totaling 7,167 MW; 79 hydro plants (888 MW); 6 CSP plants (314 MW); photovoltaic plants totaling 143 MWp and three biomass plants (61 MW). The company develops projects for customers in wind and photovoltaic power, produces wind turbines using in-house technologies, and markets power to large customers www.acciona-energia.com
It belongs to the ACCIONA Group, one of Spain’s largest corporations. It operates in infrastructure, energy, water and services in over 30 countries. Its corporate motto “Pioneers in development and sustainability” reflects its commitment — across all its activities — to contribute to economic growth, social welfare and the protection of the environment. This effort has been recognized through its inclusion in the Dow Jones (DJSI) and FTSE4Good sustainability indexes.
About SENTIENT SCIENCE:
Sentient Science Corporation is a Software as a Service provider of the cloud based DigitalClone® platform for the aerospace, defense, energy and transportation markets. The DigitalClone platform uses digital twins to enable industrial customers to represent the health risk of assets throughout the asset life-cycle from system design through to real-world field operations. These digital twins incorporating physics, material science and machine learning, allow capabilities such as detailed multi-body dynamics systems simulations under real-life operating conditions for fleet level analysis, as well as model-based predictions of current health for individual fielded assets.
Sentient Science has been recognized by the White House in 2014 with the Tibbetts Award, Bloomberg New Energy Finance Pioneers Award in 2016 and Frost & Sullivan with the New Product Innovation Award in Wind Prognostics in 2017.
DigitalClone has 3 Product Offerings:
DC-E DigitalClone for Engineering: DC-E is a multi-body dynamics simulation software that uses physics-based models to make fleet-level statistical life predictions of drive train components. It is the world’s only integrated solution from system modeling to bearing and gear detailed analysis to simulation-based component life prediction. No other solution incorporates microstructure-based life predictions.
DC-OM DigitalClone for Wind Operations & Maintenance: DC-OM is a cloud-based SaaS offering that provides model-based predictions of current health for individual wind turbines based on asset configuration, operational data and ambient conditions. Current prediction capability includes gearboxes and main bearings across a variety of OEMs.
DC-RM DigitalClone for Rail Operations & Maintenance:DC-RM is a new product category of “Precise Maintenance” tools to enable railroads to determine their best rail depreciation and maintenance scenarios, including grinding, rail profiling, load allocation etc. DC-RM life extension simulator enables railroads to make data-based budgeting decisions.
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