Wind Cluster Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Effective and reliable obstacle lighting is essential to ensure the visibility of tall structures to aircraft pilots under all weather conditions. MIDSTREAM is a leading manufacturer of specialist lighting and provides smart obstruction lighting systems for various applications incl. wind turbines.  Clients of MIDSTREAM range from major international airports, busy container ports, railway operators, large asset managers and blue chip corporates. Wind Cluster provides the sales and front desk services for wind turbine application. Trusted by many global names to delivery projects to specification, time and budget. MIDSTREAM believe that to make a great company, you have to offer both top-end products and superior service. Both are as important as each other. MIDSTREAM invest into R&D to ensure that products are incorporating the latest                                                             knowledge, know-how and processes. MIDSTREAM and Wind Cluster work closely                                                                   with our clients to develop products suited to the task they are designed for, with                                                               innovation and reliability at the forefront of research. MIDSTREAM designs and manufactures obstruction lighting systems that are                                                                       certified to international and national standards and reliable in the harshest environments. Full range of obstacle lights for wind turbines and wind farms: high, medium, and low intensity obstruction lights, controllers, remote monitoring, and                                                           support systems.

Wind Cluster is happy to introduce a new generation ice detector, the LID-3300IP for use in wind turbine applications. The detector is especially designed for wind turbines operating in extremely harsh weather conditions. Effective ice detection contributes to increased safety and reduced maintenance through unplanned stops. In recent years extreme weather conditions around the world have proven to be an additional hazard to wind turbine operations. In particular, ice forming on rotor blades can have an adverse effect on turbine reliability as well as posing a safety hazard should ice fall off the blades, potentially causing damage to buildings and people close to the structure. Turbine malfunctions and maintenance breaks reduce productivity and required safety areas are hard to reach in populated areas. Ice detection and heating incorporated The LID-3300IP Ice Detector is based on ultrasonic signal detection where the output signal weakens in the presence of ice. When a set alarm level is reaction, the ice detector then automatically begins to either heat the rotor blades or stop the turbine operation. This means that potential problems associated with ice formation can be avoided and minimal energy is used in heating the rotor blades. Ultrasonic sensing is a particularly sensitive technology and is able to detect even small amounts of ice as it forms on the turbine blades. The detector is compact and easy to install and ice detector sensors can be fitted to new and existing turbines regardless of the manufacturer. The ice sensors are also interchangeable and do not require calibration with the main control unit. The LID-3300IP is easy to connect to wind turbine control systems using a relay, current data, serial or TCP/IP interface and operates through a local area network, LAN. Data communication between the sensors and the control unit takes place via an RS-485 channel, which has the advantage of enabling the use of any type of cable of any length. Congealment status, alarms and parameters can be monitored and adjusted through an in-built web-based user interface. The unit allows for two analogue output signals so that both external temperatures and freezing conditions can be measured. The detector's purpose is to improve turbine production reliability and radically reduce the risks associated with ice formation in arctic conditions. Proven technology The LID-3300IP Ice Detector has passed stringent tests carried out by the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT). The company says that the ice detector meets all official requirements and building permit standards. More than 2000 ice detectors have been supplied to the largest turbine manufacturers in Europe including Enercon, Nordex, Repower, Vestas as well as GE Wind Energy and are also used in airports and weather stations. In Finland, for example they are used by Finavia for aviation safety applications. Picture captions :   Robust and compact, the LID-3300IP is the latest generation of ice detectors from Labkotec Oy for use in wind turbine applications. The LID-3300IP ice detector has been developed to support improved wind turbine reliability and enhance safety close to structures.     Benefits Compact, rugged design Reliable and quick on-line measuring method Configurable alarm levels Easy installation Plug-in connectors and ready-made cables Immediate indication from the beginning of the icing condition More than 2000 installations

Rotary joints are used when transferring hydraulic oil and other fluids e.g. from nacell to the rotating hub in turbines using e.g. hydraulic pitch system. High quality, robustness and long lifetime of the Rotary Joint used are essential if turbines are expected to run year after year with high availability, low maintenance and to eliminate loss of hydraulic oil creating dirty and dangerous operation. Maier Heidenhaim are one of the most experienced manufacturers of rotary joints in existence. It is a goal to maximize the quality and value of rotary joint products & services. This is accomplished by integrating the traditional and well-known core values of high quality, reliability, and safety of Maier Heidenhaim with comprehensive customer and user-driven priorities combined with a solid technological infrastructure based on proven, reliable and emerging technologies. The results are "value-added" products & solutions that satisfy customer needs !   The Maier advantage clearly results from decades of applied experience and refined quality procedures including being ISO 9001, PED 97/23/CE and for some product series ATEX 94/9/CE registered to meet customer requirements. Additionally, our the quality management system is continually improved by meeting and revising quality objectives. Maier Rotary Joints. Rotary joints are components connecting stationary pipes to rotating rollers and tables for transferring media under pressure and to heat or cool a system or to feed the media through for process. Maier Rotary joints are designed for hot oil up to 390°C/734°F, hydraulic oil up to 350 bar, air up to 40 bar, chemical media,  coolant up to 150 bar, vacuum and high running speeds and temporary "dry run" applications. We offer more than 10 basic series; sizes from 3 to 500 mm. The extensive experience of Maier Rotary Joints now utilized in wind turbines are gathered through years of work in the machine tool, textile, plastic, paper, rubber, food, steel, chemical, and energy industry. Rotary joints are unessential compared to the cost of a wind turbine. But they are essential components for the performance and safety. Critical usage configurations require theoretical and hands-on knowledge with a variety of applications. Maier has more than 50 years experience in producing rotary joints. We produce more than 1000 versions of standard and custom-made rotary joints, from single passage to multipassage, from DN3 (1/8") to DN 500 (20"). An extensive laboratory for 24h tests 7 day a week is available and makes new products running well from the very beginning. Repair and Service An extensive repair center is installed in Heidenheim. Failure analysis and evaluation of rotary joints as well as cost offers are part of our service. We offer repair service in our repair center and local support for customer needs. 

The Finnish company TEKNOWARE is the global market leader in interior lighting and emergency lighting for the automotive industry. Lately the company has also started the manufacture of robust and maintenance-free products for use in wind turbines. The new interior lighting and emergency lighting for wind turbines are based on LED technology with ultracapacitor back-up and therefore the only right solution for cold climate and offshore wind turbines. Please also contact us for assistance when analysing, calculating and dimensioning of lighting for the tower and/or nacell.

Operational safety, durability and optimum yield are the fundamental requirements that manufacturers and operators of wind power plants need from the technology that they deploy. Our wind sensors fulfil these requirements with the highest reliability and offer excellent value for money. Wherever the location of your wind power plant may be; off shore, on the coast, in deserts, in rainforests or in extremely cold and icy climates, our wind sensors are the right choice. In addition to a unique range of standard sensors, Lambrecht’s modular sensor design provides the opportunity to realise your individual customer requests and thus to design the optimal wind sensor for every application. In cooperatin with Lambrrecht we are the only supplier of wind sensors who can provide all essential wind measuring technologies.

Wind turbines use rotary limit switches to monitor the jaw position and as a safety device on the jaw. Some have also seen benefits of using the small compact rotary limit switches in pitch systems. Motors controlling the rotation of a wind turbine on the yaw axis (or rotation of the blade around its longitudinal axis) transfer the movement to the rotary limit switch. A rotary encoder reads the rotation of the shaft, and its pulses are sent to a PLC which controls the position of the nacelle or of the blade. The movement of the shaft is also transferred through a gearmotor to a series of cam switches. The optimum setting of the actuating point of the cams can signal up to four critical positions of the movement of the nacelle or of the blade. World leading Italian manufacturer Tecno Elettrica Ravasi srl (TER) has manufactured tens of thousands of rotary limits switches for wind turbines globally. Due to quality and continuous development TER is the number one on the global market in this field.