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Retrofit of wind
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attenfall, in collaboration with
Dong Energy, own and operate
one of the world's largest offshore
wind farms, located in the North Sea.
The farm comprises a total of 80 wind
turbines with a production capacity of
160MW. Brüel & Kjær Vibro has been
selected to retrofit these wind tur-
bines with our wind turbine monitoring
system, beginning in Autumn, 2009.
This includes sensors, monitoring
hardware and analyzer software.
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Horns Rev Offshore Wind Farm
Photo courtesy of Vattenfall
news
field
A
n upgrade of the COMPASS Monitoring Sys-
tem software, incorporating the SCO UNIX
OpenServer Release 6 operating system software,
is available. This stable, dependable software, still
the dominating platform for many servers worlwide,
has been upgraded to a modern, high performance
operating system at a lower-cost. It has greater mul-
ti-processor support, greater file size, increased
memory and includes new kernel technolo-
gy. The new software can work on most
modern, high performance computers
and peripherals.
Contact us today to find out how
simple it is to upgrade your
existing COMPASS installation.
For a list of local sales representa-
tives closest to you, email us at
info@bkvibro.com.
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