As AI technology is widely used in the Internet, home appliances, medicine and other fields, it has brought earth shaking changes to many industries, including wind power industry. In the field of wind power equipment manufacturing, many wind turbines used to require spider men to climb up and down during installation, construction, and later operation and maintenance, resulting in numerous dangerous accidents. However, these primitive methods have been completely changed with the emergence of intelligent robots.
Jiangsu Fengyang Wind Power Technology Engineering Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jiangsu Fengyang") recently launched a new product that replaces manual operation of wind turbines with intelligent robots, taking the intelligence level of the wind power industry to a new level.
According to the "2018-2019 Global Green Energy Application Development Annual Report", China's installed wind power capacity exceeded 200GW for the first time, becoming the first country in the world to have a wind power installed capacity exceeding 200GW. The development of offshore wind power in China is also booming. According to the "13th Five Year Plan for Wind Power Development" released by the National Energy Administration, it is necessary to actively and steadily promote offshore wind power construction, with a focus on promoting offshore wind power construction in provinces such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong. By 2020, the scale of offshore wind power construction in all four provinces will reach over one million kilowatts, and the scale of offshore wind power construction in China will reach 10 million kilowatts, striving to achieve a cumulative grid connected capacity of over 5 million kilowatts.
Both onshore and offshore wind power can experience a decrease in wind turbine power generation efficiency due to equipment corrosion, and even lead to more serious accidents. According to expert calculations, in 2009 alone, the losses caused by corrosion in China's offshore wind turbines reached as high as 1 trillion yuan. However, there are very few measures taken for the anti-corrosion of fans. Qu Zheng, Deputy Director of Qingdao Marine Corrosion Research Institute of China Iron and Steel Research Institute, believes that "offshore wind turbines are located in harsh environments and require complex anti-corrosion technologies, which need to be partially targeted. Underwater corrosion prevention mainly focuses on reinforced concrete, while underwater corrosion prevention focuses on metal corrosion prevention of wind turbine blades and towers." In order to prevent wind turbines from rusting and malfunctioning, many wind power plant owners had to spend high labor costs to hire people to clean and rust proof the turbines.
In response to the pain points in this industry, Jiangsu Fengyang has developed a wind turbine tower maintenance robot, completely changing the outdated pattern of relying solely on human labor for wind turbine maintenance. The International Energy Network reporter learned that the wind turbine tower maintenance robot is an intelligent device that can be freely lifted and lowered. It crawls up and down on the tower body, drives the work platform, and performs comprehensive cleaning, rust removal, painting and other operations on the outer wall of the wind turbine tower. The platform is equipped with three construction platforms that rotate 120 degrees and are equipped with spray nozzles for noise and paint spraying. The power and speed of the operation are intelligently controlled to achieve unmanned high-altitude operation, improve efficiency, ensure safety, and provide guarantees for the normal maintenance and operation of the wind turbine.
Corrosion of the wind turbine tower is one of the main causes of wind turbine collapse accidents. To ensure the safe operation of wind turbines, Jiangsu Fengyang has also launched the use of "wind power maintenance robots" to conduct comprehensive safety inspections on towers and blades, in order to prevent problems before they occur. The corresponding research and development of wind power to achieve anti-corrosion maintenance of tower without stopping operation is also planned.
It is reported that the company, in collaboration with Beijing JINJIU ZHUOER Machinery Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., has developed an environmentally friendly rust removal and sandblasting machine specifically for wind tower maintenance. This product is designed to remove harmful paint, rust, oxygen skin and other attachments from special workpieces of wind turbine towers, ensuring that the sandblasting site is dust-free, pollution-free and non-toxic, achieving sand and dust separation, reusing sand particles, and centralized recycling and disposal of waste. The design lift of the rust removal and sandblasting machine can meet the operation at a height of 100 meters outdoors.
Although Jiangsu Fengyang has just been established, its technological research and development capabilities in the field of wind power equipment are no less than those of established companies in the industry. At present, the company has a research and development production base of 1000 square meters, more than 30 professional R&D personnel, and has obtained 6 patent achievements. It has emerged in many fields such as wind power dust removal, wind power maintenance, and wind turbine rust removal.
At the 2019 Beijing International Wind Energy Exhibition, the person in charge of Jiangsu Fengyang told the International Energy Network reporter: "Intelligence, precision, professionalism, and reliability are our brand spirit; innovation, practicality, closeness to the market, daring to be the first, and daring to explore are our core values; based on customers, committed to creating greater value for wind farm owners, is our eternal service tenet
