Better Energy with the Wind Concept Plus from TOTALTOTAL has committed itself to the task of taking a holistic view of the development in the field of renewable energies and continuously improving it. The Wind Concept Plus is based on three important, correlating pillars.
The first pillar is the interplay of innovation and specialisation. TOTAL not only wants to drive innovation in the form of new lubricants for industrial customers, but also to make full use of the potential of a new development. Essential for this strategy is the exchange and cooperation with long-standing and new customers.
This is closely linked to the second pillar of TOTAL's strategy, the focus on customer satisfaction. TOTAL supplies high-quality lubricants and attaches just as much importance to excellent service. In cooperation with our customers, listening, involving them and then developing the lubricants are prerequisites in order to meet the requirements for TOTAL lubricants and, even more, to exceed them. TOTAL customers benefit from professional advice from competent application engineers and value-added services, which include the rationalization and organization of lubrication activities, maintenance, laboratory analyses of your operating fluids and lubricant training for your employees.
To strengthen renewable energies, TOTAL offers individual lubricant solutions with a long service life as a third pillar. For example, the high-performance gear oil CARTER WT 320 ensures an extension of the change intervals of up to 10 years. The PAO-based product convinces with excellent protection of the gears against micropitting. Due to the high viscosity index, there is improved behavior at extremely low temperatures and it specifically reduces downtimes of the wind turbine.
TOTAL ANACTOTAL ANAC offers the full range of oil analyses for all activities and applications. The energy company TOTAL has more than 35 years of experience in oil analysis and has a database of more than four million analyses. This amount of stored data sets also includes approximately 15,000 types of mechanical components and motors, and also ensures the monitoring of approximately 500,000 components.
ANAC oil analysis is suitable for power units, hydraulics and industrial applications. Based on the scientific interpretation of the analysis results of the used oil tests, various conclusions can be drawn about the actual condition of wear and tear and accordingly optimizations can be made in the maintenance of machines, which in turn goes hand in hand with a reduction in maintenance costs (per kilometer or hour). The use of TOTAL ANAC is recommended for systematic monitoring of drive unit wear, for the prevention of damage and for extending the service life of power units, as well as for condition-based maintenance.
ANAC WindThe flawless operation of a wind turbine is strongly dependent on the performance of the reduction gear. Due to the strict operating conditions, these gearboxes require special monitoring. To ensure the lubrication of this important component, oil analysis is an effective way to reduce maintenance costs and ensure the reliability of wind turbines.
With ANAC Wind, TOTAL offers an oil analysis, especially in the field of renewable energies, which incorporates the expertise and experience of the product developers and makes them available via ANAC Wind. TOTAL can draw on a wealth of experience in analyses and gear oils. At the heart of ANAC is a database of all properties specific to all TOTAL lubricants.
Oil analysis involves an assessment of the machine's operating conditions by a technician specialising in wind turbines. Taking into account its assessment, the use of other condition-based maintenance procedures (vibration analyses, thermography, etc.) and the ANAC oil analysis results, the optimal lubricant for the wind turbine is determined. Oil analysis reduces maintenance costs and optimizes oil change intervals. In addition, the planning of wind turbine maintenance operations can be better planned based on the analysis results, resulting in a reduction in turbine downtimes.
Direct Energy – Total as an operator of wind turbinesIn addition, TOTAL has also been active as an operator of wind turbines for many years, which means that the lubricants have been continuously developed. In July 2018, the energy group acquired 75 percent of the shares of the French electricity supplier Direct Energy, marking a significant expansion of power generation capacities in France and Belgium. Founded in 2003, the company is the third largest energy supplier in France and thus a major market player in the field of photovoltaics and renewable energies.
