Largest Wind Turbine Gearbox & Main Shaft Manufacturing Process. Biggest Heavy Duty Forging Machines

Hello everyone and welcome back to X-Machines channel. Continuing the series of videos on wind energy, in this video, X-Machines will explore with you the manufacturing process of 2 main parts of a wind turbine: the gearbox and the main shaft.
0:01. Introduce
0:17. The manufacturing process of wind turbine main shaft
04:51. Machining the shaft
05:51. Modern equipment to support the forging process
08:58. Manufacture of gears for gearbox
10:22. Gear Machining with Ingersoll Cutting Tools
11:28. Machining of large diameter inner gears
12:36. Heat treatment process for gears
13:23. The world’s most powerful gearbox for wind turbines
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[@GSSurry]

Excellent video. And thank you for providing the actual machining sound instead of annoying background music.

[@Asif-hz8ks]

l like it is good to see such marvel of the God gifted mind activity

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed your video and so I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@egal_ridge-qx6dq]

mech engnr without practicle knowledge is like "knife with no blade"

[@a-fl-man640]

forging process seems like a good candidate for automation unless it lacks the volume, the parts change dimension frequently, or whatever.

[@titter3648]

So you got 2 different sound clips and are just looping them over and over again...

[@davem3789]

Direct drive (no gearbox) is the only way to go. Less mechanical parts = more reliability = more time online and less maintenance costs.

[@hamstirrer6882]

Good luck trying to make any power from a generator doing 30 rpm...

[@KingdaToro]

@@hamstirrer6882 That's actually really easy, it just needs 240 poles for 60 Hz or 200 for 50 Hz.

[@FrozenHaxor]

@@hamstirrer6882 They already manufacture them, they're the most reliable turbines in the world because you don't have the gearbox that needs replacing every 3-6 years after it wears out...

[@azman4749]

​@@KingdaTorohow big the generator that will be? Is it safe and economical to mounted on tower?

[@KingdaToro]

@@azman4749 Yes. For that sort of generator, it will be a large ring directly behind the rotor's hub, connected directly to it.. The nacelle will be a lot wider than usual, and conical. Enercon turbines usually have this sort of nacelle.

[@samsimington5563]

3:53 I noticed the end that isn't flat has covered itself in a whitish pale oxide

[@samsimington5563]

@@sjb3460 Yep the same is true about metals that produce a black oxide. In fact I've built things myself out of wood

[@samsimington5563]

@@sjb3460 I just follow whatever written instructions are there (usually a furniture assembly manual), makes it a whole lot easier and I don't blame you for hating it TBH

[@gregcollins3404]

Forging is done not so much to shape the part as to strengthen it by arranging the internal grain structure of the steel.

[@elsoncerqueiramachado9496]

OLÁ BOA NOITE O MEU SISTEMA AEOLICO É 80% , MAIS EFICIENTE QUE A AEOLICA APRESENTADA EM QUESTÃO !!!!!!

[@tombogaerts]

What factory is this ? location

[@ruanjiayang]

It is really shocking to actually see how these industrial giants are produced.

[@FrancescoSimonetti2023]

Franchini Acciai 🦾🦾💚🤍❤

[@aihammouteer4588]

😘😘😘

[@michaelwhite7470]

I bet there not using wind energy to do the process

[@egal_ridge-qx6dq]

Books are only for becoming eligble fr intrvw😅😅

[@WolfHeathen]

All of that energy spent on something that'll never be able to produce enough to make up for it...

[@ralphaverill2001]

"All of that energy spent on something that'll never be able to produce enough to make up for it..." Please, your source of that very questionable information.

[@backho12]

Yes! How can the initial cost, installation, and maintenance ever begin to provide a ROI. Just imagine the maintenance costs for those towers situated in the salt air.

[@johndoe1909]

current wind turbones does it within aproximately 2 years of operation. they are hugely effocient. those figures by the way was for the old ones (about 10 years) with a size of a bout 1.5 megawatt. the newer one at 9 on shore, and 16 off shore does it way, way faste than that.

[@jimwoods9551]

@@johndoe1909 isn’t it amazing that you still need to answer such idiotic questions when the energy payback is so dramatically quick?

[@johndoe1909]

@@jimwoods9551 i guess there is a location component as well. different locales have different payback times.

[@pomonabill220]

I can't STAND the fake audio!!!

[@picobyte]

Winddmills are expensive CO2 hogs 🤣👍

[@1gtmach]

So how long does it take to make up for the carbon footprint to build, ship and erect these damn ugly noisy things. I know. I live 2 10ths of a mile from them. Clang, bang, swooshing noise, can sound like a jet, also shadow flicker and stop rotate and stop again to rotate; poor efficiency; as well as trucks upon trucks to erect crane to repair turbine. Boy oh boy. Such bullshit.

[@trainnerd3029]

Were they there before you moved in or did they build them after?

[@1gtmach]

@@trainnerd3029 2 years after. Was so peaceful before. Walk around my house enjoying my new blooms in spring, quiet. Bonfires at night, looking at the stars, quiet. Now constant machine, man made noise and believe me, it does not sound like wind blowing through the trees .

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Quit whining

[@trainnerd3029]

@@1gtmach That sucks brother! It’s a proven failed technology… The lefties just can’t let it go though

[@1gtmach]

@@samsonsoturian6013 bite me.

[@grumpyg9350]

What a Net waste of resources