Reliability Assessment of Wind Farm with Wind Turbine Gearbox Fatigue

The gearbox of wind turbine has the longest downtime due to mechanical failure, and fatigue is the most important failure form of gearbox. Traditional wind reliability model not considering the influence of gear box of immobilized fatigue, this paper proposes a meter and gearbox fatigue reliability evaluation method of wind farms, this method is intuitive reflect the extent to which each gearbox fatigue damage caused by different failure rate difference, and applicable to other fatigue as the main failure forms of component reliability modeling. The fatigue failure rate model of wind turbine gearbox was established based on the fatigue analysis of wind turbine gearbox, and the fatigue failure state was embedded into the conventional wind turbine Markov model through the failure rate, which was applied to the reliability evaluation of containing wind farm to improve the evaluation accuracy. The results show that ignoring the gearbox fatigue failure will lead to the wind turbine outage risk assessment results are relatively conservative, overestimate the reliability level of wind farm, and the more serious the accumulation of gearbox fatigue damage, the more significant the impact on the system reliability.