General Electric Renovables Espana, S.l.

Benjamin Simon Engels

Norman Arnold Turnquist

Shahid Ali

Rupam Mukherjee

Veena Padmarao

Arvind Kumar Tiwari

Jishnu Kavil Kambrath

A method for operating a generator of a wind turbine includes generating, via a controller, a time series of a plurality of operating signals of the generator. The method also includes applying at least one algorithm to the time series of the plurality of operating signals of the generator to generate a processed time series of the of the plurality of operating signals of the generator. Moreover, the method includes identifying, via the controller, patterns in the processed time series of the plurality of operating signals of the generator to identify one or more of at least one slip event occurring in the slip coupling or a surface health of the slip coupling. Further, the method includes implementing, via the controller, a control action when the at least one slip event occurring in the slip coupling is identified or the surface health of the slip coupling is indicative of degradation in the slip coupling.

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Osnabrueck, Germany

Benjamin Simon Engels