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2010/01/15 : SUPERGEN Wind EWEC 2010 Side Event

The Consortium will present part of its research results from Phase 1 in a EWEC 2010 Side Event in Wasaw, Poland, on 20th April 2010, co-organised with ReliaWind. The event is titled Research for the highly reliable offshore wind power station. If you would like to attend the event, please send an email to wenjuan.wang@durham.ac.uk to register.

The agenda of the event can be found here.

2010/01/15 : SUPERGEN Wind Phase 1 Final Assembly

A Final Assembly for Phase 1 is planned to be held in imago at Holywell Park in Loughborough on 25th march 2010, during which the whole consortium will present research results in a number of topics. A flyer of the assembly can be downloaded here. If you would like to register for the event, please send an email to wenjuan.wang@durham.ac.uk.

The agenda can be found here.

2009/12/09 : SUPERGEN Wind Renewal Success

The SUPERGEN Wind Consortium has successfully secured the project renewal to Phase 2 with EPSRC funding £4.83M. Bringing expertise from 10 research institutes and 12 companies in the UK wind energy area, the four year Phase 2 research will start on 23rd Mar 2010, towards the offshore wind power station, in areas of reliability, resource, scaling, costs, and connection.

2009/12/20 : EWEC 2010

The European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition (EWEC 2010) will take place on 20-23 April 2010 in Warsaw, Poland. Supergen Wind team is preparing to present the following papers in the conference. 

1. Scientific Track, Chatzopoulos, Assessing the energy capture capability of a MW scale wind turbine during operation below rated operation. Poster Presentation. Presenter Chatzopoulos. 
2. Scientific Track, Wylie, Watson, Comparison of different turbulence closure schemes used for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling of a wind flow around a forest simulated in a wind tunnel. Poster Presentation. Presenter Wylie.
3. Scientific Track, Kritharas, Watson, Improved long term wind speed prognosis using advanced statistical methods, Poster Presentation. Presenter Kritharas.
4. Scientific Track, Soler-Bientz, Watson, Infield, Preliminary results of a statistical wind resources analysis in offshore conditions in the Gulf of Mexico, Poster Presentation. Presenter Soler-Bientz.
5. Technical Track, Dutton, Clarke, Bonnet, Modelling of static and fatigue failure in wind turbine blades using a parametric blade model. Oral Presentation. Presenter Dutton.
6. Scientific Track, Wilkinson, Hendriks, Spinato, Gomez, Bulacio, Roca, Tavner, Feng, Long, Methodology and results of the Reliawind reliability field study, Oral Presentation. Presenter Wilkinson
7. Scientific Track, Crabtree, Feng, Tavner, Detecting incipient gearbox failure in wind turbines: a new signal analysis method for on-line condition monitoring, Oral Presentation. Presenter Feng.
8. Scientific Track, Smolders, Long, Feng, Tavner, Reliability analysis and prediction of wind turbine gearboxes. Poster Presentation. Presenter Long.
9. Scientific Track, Tavner, Gindele, Faulstich, Hahn, Whittle, Greenwood, Study of effects of weather & location on wind turbine failure rates. Poster Presentation. Presenter Greenwood.
10. Technical Track, Tavner, Higgins, Arabian, Long, Feng, Use of the FMEA to determine wind turbine availability. Oral Presentation. Presenter Tavner.
11. Technical Track, Firth, Long, A design software tool for conceptual design of wind turbine gearboxes, Poster Presentation. Presenter Long.

2009/11/27 : SUPERGEN Theme Day

A SUPERGEN Theme Day was held on 27th November 2009 in Macdonald Manchester Hotel, Manchester with fourteen consortia attended.

SUPERGEN Wind Consortium presented posters for the whole project, Theme W, Theme X, Theme Y, and Theme Z. In addition a leaflet was presented showing achievements accomplished in Phase 1.

2009/10/16 : SUPERGEN Wind Renewal Panel Meeting

The SUPERGEN Wind renewal panel meeting will be on Friday, 16th Oct 2009. Preparation work are being done by the Consortium.

2009/10/02 : SUPERGEN Wind 3rd Training Seminar

A one-day training workshop for researchers in the Superggen Wind project was held on Friday, the 2nd October 2009 in School of Engineering, Durham University, following the PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe. The training topics, which are being collected, can include both general introduction to wind energy and specific technical topics being researched in the project.

To download presentations presented in the workshop, please go to Presentations.

2009/09/30 : 5th PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe

The 5th PhD Seminar of the European Academy of Wind Energy will take place from 30th September-1st October, 2009 at Collingwood College and the School of Engineering, Durham University.

2009/07/30 : Theme Y & Z workshop

A workshop about research conducted in Theme Y and Theme Z has been held in Romax on 30th July 2009. A presentation was given by Professor Bill Leithead from University of Strathclyde.  17 people attended the workshop including industry partners and researchers from research institues.  Download the presentation.  

2009/05/18 : Supergen Wind 2 Proposal submitted

Following the successful delivery of the Supergen Wind 1, the Consortium has submitted their renewal proposal for Supergen Wind 2 in May 2009, which is proposed to start from 2010, lasting 48 months. The Supergen Wind 2 work programme will consider four key areas: Reliability, Resource estimation, Scaling up of turbine size, and Lifetime costs, which will be covered by three themes over the four years. The three proposed themes are:

• Theme 1: The Farm
• Theme 2: The Turbine
• Theme 3: The Wind Farm as a Power Station

2009/03/16 : EWEC 2009

A group of Supergen Wind researchers attended the EWEC 2009 held in Marseille 16-19 March 2009. Nine papers were presented (including 5 oral presentations), representing results from across all four Supergen Wind research themes, and representatives of the Consortium chaired one session.

2008/01/24 : Supergen Wind - Reliability & Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbines

Early conclusions from the Supergen Wind Consortium's work on Reliability & Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbines is published today in presentation format on the consortium web-site. This document includes work done on historic wind turbine reliability statistics, which has proved surprisingly informative about component reliability and status compared with other industries. The document also presents an introduction to the consortium's R&D on condition monitoring of wind turbines. Any potential commercial collaborator wishing for a more detailed presentation and discussion of the findings should contact the consortium.

2006/10/11 : Official launch of Supergen Wind

A reception and official launch of the Supergen Wind Consortium was held on Wednesday 11 October 2006 at the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) 28th Annual Conference in Glasgow. A selection of interested wind energy professionals attended the reception and talked with the project co-ordinators and members of the growing research teams.

Further news will be added as it becomes available.