2nd international conference e/e systems for wind turbines

2nd International Conference

E/E Systems for Wind Turbines

Next Generation Wind Turbines – Reducing Cost of Energy – Advancing Availability & Serviceability

Featuring exclusive OEM case studies and presentations from the region's leading utilities

• The latest developments in pitch systems to reduce loads and enhance advanced control

• Implement advanced control systems to increase energy production

• Evaluate future requirements for wind turbines from a utility and developer´s perspective

• Understand specific grid code requirements to ensure compliance to the power generation system

• Learn about innovative generator and converter technology for application in next generation wind turbines

With contributions from leading international companies:

21 – 23 May 2012 | Swissôtel Bremen, Germany

Interactive Workshop Day | Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Workshop A | Functional safety for pitch systems with regard to reliability & availabilityWorkshop B | Current and future generator-converter systemsWorkshop C | High availability control systems for wind turbinesWorkshop D | Ensuring grid compliance SAVe

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Moog

DONG Energy Renewables

RWE Innogy GmbH

TU Denmark

GE Energy Power Conversion

WinWinD Oy

GE Energy

E.ON Climate

Bosch Rexroth AG

Fraunhofer IWES

Nordex Energy GmbH

SSB Wind Systems GmbH & Co. KG

Gamesa Innovation & Technology

The Switch

RWE Npower Renewables Limited

Winergy AG

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Dear colleague,

For the wind energy industry it is crucial to lower the cost of energy to compete with other

energies. The rapid developments in high performance wind turbines have not mitigated the risk of technical

faults or malfunction. Technological advances are strongly needed regarding lifetime, reliability and

efficiency.

In order to remain competitive and to grow market share, wind turbine manufacturers and the supplier industry

must develop next generation turbines that comply with future requirements for on and offshore applications.

I am pleased to announce that the 2nd International Conference E/E Systems for Wind Turbines taking place

21 – 23 May, 2012 at the Swissôtel Bremen/Germany is back by popular demand! This year, we have expanded

the agenda to include the region’s leading utilities, who will speak about their expectations and future vision.

And as if that wasn’t enough, OEMs will present their findings on the actual developments in wind turbine

electric systems.

This year’s focus will be on:

• The latest developments regarding pitch systems to reduce loads and enhance advanced control

• Advanced Control Systems to increase energy production

• Specific grid code requirements to ensure compliance to the power generation system

• Innovative generator and converter technology for application in next generation wind turbines

This event will draw together extensive experience from industry professionals in electrical engineering,

encourage the exchange of knowledge, and promote the dialogue amongst the wind turbine community.

Save your place and book now!

I am looking forward to meeting you in Bremen from 21 – 23 May 2012!

Best regards

Monica Wick

EnergyIQ Team

Sponsorship

We have a variety of packagesavailable to suit your requirements. For all Sponsorship and Exhibitionopportunities call Akos Gyure: +49 (0)30 20 91 32 75 or [email protected]

MediapartnerERNEUERBARE ENERGIEN is Germany’s independent monthly magazine for renewable ener-gies. The magazine informs by independent journalism comprehensive about the most important activities in the market of renewable energies. Passionately we are always searching for the lat-est developments, the most resourcefully companies, the brightest minds in the line of business to provide our readers as well as our advertising customers a professionally and successfully information- and sales platform. Since 20 years we are reaching about 12.200 professionals and decision makers, investors, plant operators, engineers, project manager, craftsmen and scientists per month. In the fields of wind power onshore and offshore, photovoltaics, solar thermal power, biogas, thermal biomass, bio-fuels, hydropower and geothermal power. Once a year we are publishing the International Directory of Wind Energy, the International Directory of Solar Energy and the Wind Turbine Market. www.erneuerbareenergien.de

Windpower Engineering covers the design, technical content, and maintenance of wind tur-bines, wind farms, and the regulations and policies that make the industry function. Windpower Engineering provides accurate, timely, and useful information to wind energy professionals. Windpower Engineering also provides useful design tips and industry knowledge across the full spectrum of wind and other renewable energy technologies.www.windpowerengineering.com

SUN & WIND ENERGY is the international magazine for professionals worldwide in the field of renewable energies. The magazine appears monthly from 2009 onwards and provides valuable information on the renewable energy market. SUN & WIND ENERGY presents international news, market developments, worldwide market overviews, company profiles, product informa-tion, interviews, job opportunities, events and a comprehensive company directory. www.sunwindenergy.com

SONNE WIND & WÄRME is THE TRADE MAGAZINE for all renewable energies. Technical articles, company profiles and market overviews as well as current application examples, product presen-tations and practical tips make SONNE WIND & WÄRME an indispensable source of information for technical press readers and a fundament for their product decisions. www.sonnewindwaerme.de

Lead Sponsor

MoogMax-Born-Str. 159423 Unna, GERMANYTel.: +49 (0)2303 5937 0Fax: +49 (0)2303 5937 [email protected]/wind

Pitch Solutions for Reliability and High PerformanceMoog is a leading supplier of tai-lored pitch systems and products for onshore and offshore wind turbines. With more than 27,000 units in opera-tion around the world, Moog is your proven partner for reliable pitch solu-tions.Moog designs, manufactures and supplies high performance electric, hydraulic and hybrid motion control solutions for applications including pitch systems, slip ring solutions, rotor monitoring and blade sensing systems. Our experts provide products, systems and services worldwide to ensure maximum efficiency, reliable opera-tion and a long operating life for wind turbines.

Exhibitors

Kübler Group, Fritz Kübler GmbHSchubertstraße 4778054 Villingen-SchwenningenGERMANYTel.: +49 (0)7720/3903-0Fax: +49 (0)7720/[email protected]

ABB Automation Products GmbHWallstadter Straße 59,68526 Ladenburg, GERMANYTel.: +49 (0)40 460 639 - 66Fax: +49 (0)40 460 639 - [email protected]

AEG Power SolutionsEmil-Siepmann-Straße 3259581 Warstein, GERMANYTel.: +49 (0)2902 763 527Fax: +49 (0)2902 763 [email protected]


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CONfErENCE DAy ONE | Monday, 21 May 2012

09:00 Registration & coffee

09:30 Chairman’s welcome and opening address

Dr. Sherif El-Henaoui, European Marketing Director, Moog, Italy

Operators, Developers and Utilities: Requirements and Future Projects

09:35 A project developers evaluation of new wind turbine designs for future projects • Evaluation of new wind turbine designs by design review in close cooperation with the wind turbine manufacturer • The use of demo sites to get hands on experience with new turbine designs • Evaluation and requirements to new wind turbine designs seen from an O&M perspective Karsten Kabel, Project Engineer, DONG Energy Renewables, Denmark

10:15 Requirements for Offshore Wind Turbines from an Operator’s Perspective • RWE Innogy’s Offshore Project Pipeline • Comparison of Offshore and Onshore conditions • Challenges of Offshore Wind Energy • Special Requirements for Offshore Wind Turbines • Quality Assurance and Pre-qualification • Conclusion and Outlook Holger Berndt, Wind Energy Offshore, Senior Manager WTG Engineering, RWE Innogy GmbH, Germany

10:55 refreshment break and networking

11:25 The competitive future Wind Turbines will need significant further developed and matured technologies • How do we secure reduction of cost of energy with 50% for offshore before 2020? • More individual site specific approach including design criteria, site specific design, fabrication and installation • Offshore cost level ask for new standards for quality assurance and quality control for the whole supply and value chain • Onshore big scale will ask for new standards to handle more complex sites. • Onshore big scale sites will ask for further development of cold climate and icing solution Kristian Höy-Thomsen, Head of Technology Department, E.ON Climate & Renewables, Nordic, Sweden

12:05 Successful development in between the contradictory contexts of market and customer requirements • Global market requirements like Grid Codes • Cost of Energy • Gamma Generation: Platform Strategie • Nordex N117/2400 Guenter Steininger, Product Manager Product Line Management Department, Nordex Energy GmbH, Germany

12:45 Networking luncheon

Pitch System Development and Controlling Systems

14:15 Functional Safety for Pitch Systems • Turbine Certification and Requirements from GL 2010 guidelines • Challenges for Pitch Systems • Safety Approach Tobias Rösmann, R&D Manager, CPR Wind – Pitch Control Systems, Moog, Germany

14:55 Innovative electrical blade pitch system with ac-technology • Requirements resulting from GL2010 and the machinery directive • Reducing loads during emergency stop due to drive control system failure • Demands on Pitch systems resulting from Individual Pitch Control Tobias Herrmann, Development Engineer, Bosch Rexroth AG, Germany

15:35 Advanced Electrical Pitch Systems • Control requirements • New topologies for pitch systems • Rapid Yaw • Pitch control for floating turbines Dr. Fabio Bertolotti, Director of Research & Technology, SSB Wind Systems GmbH & Co. KG, Germany


Grid Codes – Grid Compliance

16:45 Contribution from Wind Power Plants to frequency control and stability in power systems with a large amount of wind power • Generating Systems in Wind Turbine Generators and conventional power plants • Primary reserves and control and Inertial response • GE WindINERTIATM as a solution to provide an inertial response • Impact in power systems: Case studies Stephan Wachtel, Principal Engineer, GE Energy Consulting, Germany

17:25 Control of wind parks in a modern smart grid • Grid compliance of single turbines vs. complete wind parks • Contribution of a wind park in frequency and voltage regulation • Intelligent regulators and connectivity • Preparing for future requirements Dr. Sami Kanerva, Design engineer, WinWinD Oy, Finland

Kimmo Kaappola, Engineering manager, WinWinD Oy, Finland

18:05 Closing remarks of the chairman and end of conference day one

Join us for an informal evening event.


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CONfErENCE DAy TWO | Tuesday, 22 May 2012

08:30 registration & coffee

08:55 Chairman’s welcome

Generator systems for wind turbines and for future applications

09:00 How reliable is your generator? Lessons learned from generator operation in onshore and offshore wind farms • A number of different configurations of generator are used in WTGs. Are some more reliable than others? • Experience of generator operation in both onshore and offshore WTGs • Lessons learned from failures applied to the future engineering of WTG generators Duncan Locke, WTG Engineer, RWE Npower Renewables Limited, UK

09:40 Wind turbine drive trains with synchronous generators and performance improvement via the model-based control • Topologies of synchronous generator-based drive trains • Comparisons of these drive trains • Problems with the classic control strategy • Performance improvement with the model-based control Dr.-Ing. Liang Chen Project Engineer Fraunhofer Institut für Windenergie und Energiesystemtechnik IWES, Germany


10:55 Combing the advantages of a direct drive and geared generator system into a HybridDrive system • Development of drive trains • Overview of different drive train concepts • Design criteria for drive train: efficiency, weight, volume, cost of energy • Explanation of HybridDrive system (integrated generator / gearbox system) • Comparison of drive train concepts • First measuring from test bay Matthias Deicke, Head of Electrical Systems, Winergy AG, Germany

11:35 Lowering the cost of energy with permanent magnet drive generators

• Levelized cost of energy • Increasing annual energy production • Lowering total lifecycle cost • Shortening time to market • The importance of value-added partnering Jussi Vanhanen, Sales and Marketing Director, The Switch, Finland


13:45 Advantages and challenges of superconducting wind turbine generators

• Background of superconductivity and its relevance for wind turbine generators • Superconducting generator concepts • Advantages of superconducting generators for wind turbines • Challenges of superconducting generators for wind turbines Dr Bogi Bech Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

14:25 Generator systems for large offshore wind turbines • Future technology for large offshore wind turbines • Active star technology – High end innovation and efficiency in direct drive wind turbines • Pro and cons Derek Grieve, Director Technology, GE Energy Power Conversion, UK


Converter technology for wind turbines

15:35 Gamesa’s G10x 4.5MW wind turbine electrical system • G10x 4.5 MW wind turbine • Medium speed drive train • Permanent magnet generator • Modular full converter • Grid codes compliance Mikel Rodriguez, Section Manager, Technology, Gamesa Innovation & Technology, Spain

16:15 Closing remarks of the chairman and end of conference day two






16:00 End of Workshop Day

2nd Offshore Foundations for Wind Turbines takes a detailed look at state-of-the-art foundations for offshore wind turbines, novel foundation designs as well as innovative installation concepts to reduce the cost factor of foundations in offshore wind projects.Coming back July 2012

3rd Drivetrain Concepts for Wind Turbines is assessing state-of-the-art and novel drivetrain designs for multi-megawatt wind turbines including a detailed look at gearbox designs and generator technologies for better availability, higher reliability and lighter drivetrains. Coming back October 2012

for further information please contact us on +49 (0)30 20 91 32 74 or email [email protected].

IQPC's Wind Power Innovations ConferencesThis event is part of our successful wind power series. Other conferences of this series include:

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Workshop A | 09:00-12:00

Functional safety for pitch systems with regard to reliability & availability

Directive GL2010 presents a challenge, particularly for state-of-the-artelectromechanical AC pitch systems. Unlike DC pitch systems, they do not have a redundant activation channel for emergency movement into the feather position. The directive only provides indications, leaving engineers to interpret what safety functions will be needed and how to ensure their performance level complies with EN ISO 13849.

During our workshop, we will discuss the safety requirements ofGL2010, including their implications for pitch systems.

Matthias Pauli, Core Components Manager, CPR Wind – Pitch Control SystemsMoog, Germany



Workshop B | 09:00-12:00

Current and future generator-converter systems

The drivetrain of many wind turbines installed has been based on the concept of collecting standard components such as a gearboxand a double fed induction generator (DFIG) connected directly to the grid and with a power converter controlling the rotor.

This concept is however being challenged by the need for higher reliability, strict grid requirements and increasing power rangesespecially for the future offshore turbines. Thus there is a trend towards introducing direct drive generators with a full powerconverter both tailored to a specific turbine.This workshop will discuss the choice of active materials for the present and future direct drive generators, the implications onperformance and possible supply chain issues.

For further information, please visit our websitewww.ee-wind-turbines.com/MM

Workshop C | 13:00-16:00

High availability control systems for wind turbines

The reliability of electronic control systems are of high importance as failures may cause significant economic loss and unplanned maintenance of the systems is necessary.In respect to the long expected lifecycle of wind turbines, a high availability control system architecture helps to avoid unplanned repairs. It can help to optimize the cost of operation and is in fact one important aspect when it comes to competitive advantages in energy production.

Electronic platforms which offer scalable fault tolerance, safety and high availability can assure that control systems are reliable and designed for more efficient operation.

For further information, please visit our websitewww.ee-wind-turbines.com/MM

Workshop D | 13:00-16:00

ensuring grid compliance

Join this interactive session to learn about and discuss the following topics: • Choosing turbines that are grid friendly & generate quality, High-Value Power • Future grid requirements • Are future grid requirements going to get harsher? • Will old and recently bought turbines be able to connect to the grid without retrofits? • What is the greater value of power from grid-friendly turbines? • How are turbine designers meeting requirements of continually tougher grid codes? • Design factors to improve grid friendliness • Is it worth the extra cost and complexity of design to gain higher yields?

Stephan Wachtel, Principal Engineer, GE Energy Consulting, UK

Interactive Workshop Day | Wednesday, 23 May 2012

08:30 Registration & coffee




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