Offshore Foundations | Advances in Rotor Blades
Wind Turbine Towers | Wind Turbine Bearings
26 - 28 August 2025
| Dorint City Hotel Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Wind Turbine Bearings: Day 1 - 27/08/2025
Offshore Foundations: Focus Day - 26/08/2025
Offshore Foundations: Day 1 - 27/08/2025
Offshore Foundations: Day 2 - 28/08/2025
Advances in Rotor Blades: Day 1 - 27/08/2025
Advances in Rotor Blades: Day 2 - 28/08/2025
Wind Turbine Bearings: Day 1 - 27/08/2025
Wind Turbine Bearings: Day 2 - 28/08/2025
Wind Turbine Towers: Day 1 - 27/08/2025
Wind Turbine Towers: Day 2 - 28/08/2025
10:00 - 10:15
Chairperson’s opening
10:15 - 10:45
Keynote: Scalability limits for Wind turbine architecture, and its affection to main bearings.
Daniel Barriopedro -
Product Architecture Head,
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy
- Main upscaling limitations.
- Different solutions adopted by WTG OEMS to overcome those limitations.
- Forecasted evolution of main components and bearings sizes (focused on Geared WTGs).
- Potential affections to bearings OEMS.
10:45 - 11:15
Life extension and load density increase of Wind Turbine bearings
Klaus Sausele -
Sector Manager Wind Energy,
NSK Deutschland GmbH
• Long life/high load density bearing materials, treatments and design
• Gearbox bearing applications
• Main shaft bearings
11:15 - 12:00
Refreshment Break and Networking
12:00 - 12:30
The Next Generation of Wind Turbines: The Role of Hydrodynamic Journal Bearings in The Joule Challenge
Jack Robson -
R&D Engineer Rotating Machinery,
ORE CATAPULT
- The Joule Challenge project, what is it?
- Main bearing configurations for 20MW and beyond
- Comparison at Scale – How hydrodynamic journal bearings compare to rolling element bearings at the large sizes required for next generation wind turbines
- Cost analysis of hydrodynamic journal main bearings including maintenance and replacement cost, and their economic impact
12:30 - 13:00
Miba’s SJB ™ (Segmented Journal Bearing) as Main Bearing
Dr. Johannes Hölzl -
Head of Systems Engineering Wind Applications,
Miba Gleitlager GmbH
Patrick Laubichler - System Engineer Wind Applications, Miba Gleitlager Austria GmbH
- The SJB™ can be integrated within the design space of existing roller bearing solutions. This can extend the lifecycle of existing products or renewed life for older turbines.
- Less number of components reduce failure probabilities and equally distributed load on rotating segment improve the lifetime.
- The bearing materials have been tested thoroughly in wind turbine gearboxes for several years.
- The system can be design more compact or can increases the power density in existing space.
- Lower noise production and dampening due to hydrodynamic lubrication
13:00 - 14:30
Networking Lunch
14:30 - 15:00
Optimisation and validation of pin profiling for sliding planet gear bearings
Peter Decker -
NA,
COB Bearings Germany GMBH
• Hydrodynamic Simulation
• Crowning Optimisation
• Validation
• Cladded Shafts
15:00 - 15:30
Reserved for Goldwind
15:30 - 16:30
Refreshment Break and Networking
16:30 - 17:00
Grease aging in Rolling Bearings
Dr.-Ing. Ricardo Lühe -
Forschungs- und Entwicklungsingenieur,
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
- Mechanisms of grease aging, including oil separation, thickener degradation, and thermooxidation
- Use of diagnostic tools such as IR (Infrared Spectroscopy), AES (Atomic Emission Spectroscopy), or NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) for in-depth lubricant analysis and bearing health assessment
- Influence of load and tribological subsystems on specific mechanisms of grease aging
Dr.-Ing. Ricardo Lühe
Forschungs- und EntwicklungsingenieurOtto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
17:00 - 17:15
Chairperson’s closing remarks
19:00 - 19:00
Evening Get-Together
Join us for an informal evening get together at Emma am See where some refreshing drinks and a nice barbecue buffet will be waiting for you! You are not only visiting an architecturally award-winning monument, but meeting your peers in a relaxed atmosphere, exchanging business cards. and reviewing the first conference day.
