Chinese firm unveils colossal tech to test up to 35MW wind turbines

Oct 17, 2024

It’s being claimed that the test bench can simulate 20 years of wind farm operation in just one year by utilising high-intensity accelerated fatigue tests.

Prabhat Ranjan Mishra

The test bench can also accurately simulate complex weather conditions and extreme working environments.

SANY

A Chinese multinational heavy equipment manufacturing company has unveiled an equipment capable of testing wind turbines. Unveiled by SANY’s state-of-the-art wind power testing center, the equipment can reportedly test the main components and systems of a 35MW wind turbine.The company claims it as China’s first and the world’s largest 35MW Six Degrees of Freedom and Drivetrain Back-to-Back Test Bench.

The equipment was officially put into operation at Sany Renewable Energy’s Wind Power Testing Center.

This test bench, independently developed and designed by Sany Renewable Energy, uses a 100% domestic supply chain and is capable of simulating the full lifecycle of wind turbines up to 35MW.The company claims that the equipment has six 100-tonne hydraulic cylinders and uses multi-directional, coordinated loads across six degrees of freedom. This allows for extreme, multi-axis stress testing.The company also claims that the test bench can also accurately simulate complex weather conditions and extreme working environments, withstanding typhoon-level winds.

It’s being claimed that the test bench can simulate 20 years of wind farm operation in just one year by utilising high-intensity accelerated fatigue tests.Sany claimed that it performs functional tests, failure limit verification, and design model validation on the entire turbine and key components such as generators, gearboxes, and main shafts.With a maximum driving torque of 36 MN·m and a bending moment of up to 80 MN·m, it accurately simulates complex weather conditions and extreme working environments, withstanding typhoon-level winds.Sany’s Europe director Paulo Fernando Soares little by little everybody will know that “we are serious about being a major global turbine OEM player.”“New intelligent manufacturing facilities, new products, new first-class testing capabilities and an ESG programme that permeates everything,” added Soares.

Philip Totaro, CEO of renewables analytics firm IntelStor, said his company had predicted that cash-flush Chinese companies would out-spend European counterparts in R&D as well as wind turbine component manufacturing in an attempt to take a global technological lead, reported Recharge News.

“This is another step by a Chinese wind energy OEM in the demonstration to Western project financiers that they should be considered just as viable as Western OEMs,” added Totaro.

SANY recently also installed a 15-MW onshore wind turbine. Self-developed by SANY Renewable Energy, the turbine was installed in Tongyu, Jilin Province, China. The groundbreaking project set two world records — the highest single-unit capacity for an onshore turbine and the largest rotor diameter of any onshore turbine ever installed worldwide.

The successful installation of the onshore 15MW wind turbine marks a milestone in SANY’s development in the megawatt sector and China’s large-scale wind turbines.

The company claims that it will continue to drive technological innovation with new productive forces, creating high-reliability, highly adaptable smart turbines to support the high-quality development of global wind resources.

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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra Prabhat, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, is a tech and defense journalist. While he enjoys writing on modern weapons and emerging tech, he has also reported on global politics and business. He has been previously associated with well-known media houses, including the International Business Times (Singapore Edition) and ANI.

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