Yang, Xiyun; Li, Jinxia; Liu, Wei; Guo, Peng - In: Energies 4 (2011) 6, pp. 978-997
Based on an analysis of the working principles of the hydraulic variable pitch system of a wind turbine, a novel Petri net model and reliability evaluation method are proposed. First, Petri net theory is adopted to build a model for each discrete state of the operation of the hydraulic pitch...