Five Wind Turbine Inspections

Five Wind Turbine Inspections

(Originally Posted: 20th July 2020)

The 20th to the 24th of July is Wind Turbine Inspector week at WILKINSON COUTTS. We’re getting a great response for our first course and will be posting snippets throughout the week.

Check them out!

About those Five Inspections

Here’s five mini-points we’ve chosen for posting this week:

◦   Yaw Ring Damage Mechanisms

◦   High Strength Structural Steels (S350 – S500)

◦   Foundation/Structure Bolt Tension checking

◦   LOLER and PSSR benchmarks

◦   Brake Defects

Let’s start with Yaw Rings

Which one of these is a feature an inspector should mention when reporting on WT yaw ring gears?

a) Gear K-factor

b) Changes in pitch circle due to corrosion

c) Increased face-width

d) Decreased circular thickness

Tricky one. But a real yaw-ring issue is with older WTs.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the Wilkinson Coutts Wind Turbine Inspector Cert, contact Paul Wilkinson or Craig Coutts via these two emails:

[email protected]

[email protected]

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