本网讯（任家耕报道）据悉，2012年4月16-17日，英国Romax科技有限公司在丹麦哥本哈根召开的欧洲风电大会上正式发布了名为“Romax InSight”的全新产品服务平台。这一个革命性的产品将帮助风场显著提高盈利性，大大降低风电成本。Romax相信使用InSight可使风场投资收益提高3到6个百分点。
Romax InSight的发布将一个新的产品类别带入风能领域。InSight的高级技术可帮助风场运营商将风机组群的运行状况尽收眼底，并可根据齿轮箱和传动链的状况预测出风机剩余运营寿命。InSight的诞生建立在Romax公司20余年研究齿轮箱失效的经验和大量风场服务的实际数据基础上。此次发布是Romax在该领域一个五年项目的重要里程碑，此项目的主旨在于“模型化”风机失效的原因，并创建精确、可靠并易用的预测工具。
Romax风能总监Andy Poon先生解释道：“如果希望风场或其他任何发电设备实现产能的最大化，都需要了解其当前的运营状况和未来可能的状态。同时，还需要了解为巩固其未来产能所必须采取的措施。另外，恰当的维护也至关重要。InSight正是为了满足这几个需求而诞生的。”
InSight由三个重要部分组成：
InSight SCADA ——强大的控制数据分析平台，与世界领先的风场主和运营商联合开发，为用户提供可视化效果，以便了解整个风场的运行状态，并有效控制风机的维护质量。
InSight智能诊断系统（iDS）——集成了振动、SCADA数据和维护数据的全盘诊断系统，为用户提供精确的风电机组状态可视化结果。
InSight 检测与分析服务——集合了Romax公司在工程鉴定、机械性能研究和现场服务的丰富经验，帮助解决并优化复杂的维护问题。
Andy Poon说道：“我们整个InSight理念是建立在丰富的经验、先进的算法和信息上的，能帮助客户深入认识和掌握其风电设备的情况，从而极大地提高投资收益。没有对风电设备的洞察就不可能得到所需要的信息，这就意味着错过了了解风电设备运行性能的重要途径。”
“随着风机尺寸日益大型化和技术越发复杂化，运营的成本及不理想的维护方案对最终利润的影响也是巨大的。海上风场的投资规模更是十分巨大，维护问题也不可避免地更具挑战性。InSight的使用对运营商来说意义重大。”
Romax Launched A Breakthrough Solution – Romax InSight
Romax launched a new product and service platform named InSight, on April 16-17 at EWEA. It will significantly reduce the cost of wind energy, making wind farms more profitable. The company believes that InSight can improve returns on wind assets by between three and six per cent.
Romax anticipates that InSight will create a new product category for the wind sector. InSight comprises key technologies that enable wind farm operators to visualise fleet performance and predict the remaining operating life of wind turbines down to gearbox and drivetrain level. The product is built on the company’s 20-years experience studying gearbox failure and wind turbine service data. The launch is the culmination of a five-year programme that attempts to ‘model out’ the reasons for failure and create predictive tools that are accurate, reliable and easy to use.
Andy Poon, Director of Wind Energy of Romax Technology explains: “If you want a wind farm, or any other power generation asset, to achieve maximum output, you need to know both its current condition and what its future condition will be. You also need to know the necessary changes required in order to enhance its future performance. It is also important to ensure that maintenance is undertaken in an optimum way. InSight has been developed to meet these requirements.”
InSight comprises three core elements:
InSight Inspection and Analysis draws on the company’s deep experience of forensic engineering, studying machine behaviour and field services to tackle maintenance issues.
InSight Intelligent Diagnostic System (IDS) is a holistic diagnostics platform that integrates vibration, SCADA and maintenance record data to provide precise visualisation of fleet condition.
InSight SCADA is a powerful control and data acquisition platform developed in conjunction with leading wind asset owners and wind asset operators, providing real time visibility, control and recording analytics.
Andy Poon said: “Our whole InSight philosophy is based around the position that drawing on our experience and data and using some very clever algorithms and information, we can give our clients a far greater InSight into their assets and significantly increase their yield. Without this InSight you haven’t got the information that you need – you’re missing a big part of understanding the performance of your assets.
“As turbines become larger and more sophisticated, operational costs and the impact on revenue resulting from bad maintenance decisions can be very significant. Offshore wind farms involve enormous investments and maintenance is inevitably more challenging. INSIGHT will make a serious contribution to operators.”