Robot-mounted blade inspection that finds delamination and sub-surface cracks before they reach the surface — plus standoff gas and leak detection across the asset. Two solutions, one analytics layer, zero turbine downtime for access.
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Blade failures start beneath the gelcoat — as delamination, voids, and bond-line disbonds invisible to the naked eye and to surface cameras. Mid-infrared light penetrates protective coatings to resolve these sub-surface defects before they propagate to a crack, a repair campaign, or an unplanned outage. The same platform detects lubricant leaks and insulating gas in nacelles and substations at standoff range.
Wind energy gets two NORBLIS solutions. Surface Inspection — mid-IR OCT mounted on a blade-crawling robot scans metre-long sections at production speed, mapping delamination and sub-surface cracks with no contact, no ionizing radiation, and no blade removal. Detection & Monitoring — broadband mid-IR lasers add standoff detection of gearbox oil mist, SF₆ in switchgear, and methane around the asset — feeding the same monitoring and alarming software that turns scans into maintenance decisions.
Inline mid-IR OCT on the production line resolves bond-line thickness, dry spots, and delamination in composite blades before they leave the factory — catching defects when they cost a rework, not a field campaign.
Robot- and crawler-mounted scanning of installed blades resolves sub-surface cracks, leading-edge erosion damage, and coating disbonds — without rope access teams, without taking the turbine offline for visual access.
Standoff mid-IR detection of gearbox oil mist and lubricant leaks inside the nacelle, with continuous monitoring and threshold alarming — early warning of bearing and seal failures before they cascade.
Broadband mid-IR spectroscopy detects SF₆ insulating-gas leaks in switchgear and methane around the asset at ppb sensitivity — quantified, located, and fed to the same alarming dashboard as the inspection data.
Mounted on a blade-crawling robot, the NORBLIS mid-IR OCT probe scans metre-long sections at production speed — resolving delamination, voids, and bond-line disbonds beneath the gelcoat. Add a camera and autonomy layer and the system maps an entire blade and routes every defect into an analytics dashboard. No rope access, no ionizing radiation, no turbine downtime for access.
How the technology worksThe same broadband mid-IR engine that inspects blades also detects gas: gearbox oil mist in the nacelle, SF₆ leaks in switchgear, methane across the site — quantified at ppb sensitivity. Inspection scans and detection events flow into a single monitoring and alarming software layer, turning raw photonics into maintenance decisions and uptime.
Discuss a wind deploymentBlade manufacturers, turbine OEMs, and wind farm operators — our team will configure a combined inspection and detection solution for your fleet.
