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Customized Gearboxes

ZF Wind Power’s customized gearboxes : reliable technology for every wind site

Key Facts

Reliable

High reliability building on ZF’s experience and innovation

Compact design

Optimized for high torque density and power to weight ratios

Efficiency

An attractive balance between reliability and complexity

What can Customized Gearboxes provide?

ZF Wind Power is able to develop a customized gearbox for your wind project. Three different concepts, each with its own advantages and perfect for your project: 3 and 4 point suspension models, rotor side integrated models and generator side integrated models. Discover the technical details below and do not hesitate to contact to discuss possibilities for your wind project. Together we empower a sustainable future.

Details

ZF's gearbox architecture combines compact design, reliability and efficiency at industry-leading levels. The continuous improvements have allowed us to exceed the 200 Nm/kg torque density barrier while relying on our proven gearbox design.

3 and 4 Point Suspension

For conventional wind turbines with 3 and 4 point suspension ZF Wind Power offers products with a proven design topology featuring a combination of planetary stages and helical gear stages. This product series can bank on an extensive track record, with components sourced from a broad and established supplier base, providing our customers with proven reliability.

Rotor Side Integrated

The current integrated rotor side solutions build upon the strengths of the bogie principle in the first planetary stage. The bogie principle can compensate for deformations in the surrounding structures thereby ensuring optimal gear load distribution under all operational conditions. This gearbox design allows our customers to design their nacelle frame structures for strength, leading to minimum weight, instead of for stiffness, which is required for alignment purposes in conventional designs.
Design starting at 3.0 MW

Generator Side Integrated

ZF Wind Power is one of the industry leaders when it comes to integrated medium speed drives for wind turbines, with the prototype of our medium speed gearbox already introduced in 2009. With this experience, and following the growing market interest in wind turbines with medium-speed generators, ZF Wind Power is the ideal partner for developing new medium speed drives in the multi-megawatt class.
Designs from 8.0 MW up to 9.5 MW

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