Development of a light-weight, wind-turbine-rotor-based data acquisition system
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)
- Utah State Univ., Logan, UT (United States)
Wind-energy researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are developing a new, light-weight, modular system capable of acquiring long-term, continuous time-series data from current-generation small or large, dynamic wind-turbine rotors. Meetings with wind-turbine research personnel at NREL and SNL resulted in a list of the major requirements that the system must meet. Initial attempts to locate a commercial system that could meet all of these requirements were not successful, but some commercially available data acquisition and radio/modem subsystems that met many of the requirements were identified. A time synchronization subsystem and a programmable logic device subsystem to integrate the functions of the data acquisition, the radio/modem, and the time synchronization subsystems and to communicate with the user have been developed at SNL. This paper presents the data system requirements, describes the four major subsystems comprising the system, summarizes the current status of the system, and presents the current plans for near-term development of hardware and software.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; AC36-83CH10093
- OSTI ID:
- 563173
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-97-3003C; CONF-980104-; ON: DE98001368; BR: EB2500000; TRN: AHC29803%%10
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 17. ASME wind energy symposium, Reno, NV (United States), 12-15 Jan 1998; Other Information: PBD: [1997]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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