The Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (ITA), which is part of the Aragon Department of Technology of Industry and Innovation of the Government of Aragon, represents Spain, as a research center, in the WindTurBars consortium, which is The group is made up of 9 partners from 5 different countries (UK, France, Turkey, Croatia and Spain) and whose objective is to “anticipate the possible failures of wind farms?
This project, oriented towards SMEs, is financed by 7 European Union (EU) Framework Program, is holding today, March 14th, a meeting at ITA’s facilities in Zaragoza, in what will be the first meeting of the year. first meeting in Spain of the heads of the working groups of the countries mentioned. ITA engineers Mateo Iglesias, David Ciprés and Fernando Arteche will present their advances on the processing of electrical failures through predictive maintenance, the application of intelligent algorithms and system validation.
At the origin of WindTurBars is the wind energy industry. in Europe, with a need to reduce the rate of system failures and the corresponding default downtime that the company will have to pay for. will contribute significantly to the overall reduction of the cost of operation and maintenance associated with current and future wind turbines. future.
