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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-B.2015.39.12.935

Methods for Early Fire Detection and Fire Position Determination Inside the Nacelle of Wind Turbine Generator System  

Kim, Da Hee (Faculty of Wind Energy Engineering Graduate School, Jeju Nat'l Univ.)
Lim, Jong Hwan (Dept. of Mechatronics, Jeju Nat'l Univ.)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B / v.39, no.12, 2015 , pp. 935-943 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a method for early fire detection and fire position determination inside the nacelle of wind turbine generator system. The rising temperature and obscuration rates inside the nacelle were used as parameters for fire detection, which can minimize the possibility of a fire detection malfunction because these rising rates do not depend on the absolute values of temperature and obscuration. The fire position was determined using the time difference among various sensor positions for fire detection. The performance of the method was tasted using sets of experiments in a nacelle simulator.
Keywords
Wind Turbine; Nacelle; Early Fire Detection; Fire Position Determination;
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