scholarly journals An opportunistic maintenance strategy for wind turbines

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dameng Wang ◽  
Wei Teng ◽  
Gaoshuran Zhang ◽  
Xiaofeng Qu ◽  
Yibing Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Maintenance Strategy ◽  
Opportunistic Maintenance

scholarly journals Maintenance Optimization of Offshore Wind Turbines Based on an Opportunistic Maintenance Strategy

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lubing Xie ◽  
Xiaoming Rui ◽  
Shuai Li ◽  
Xin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Maintenance Optimization ◽  
Maintenance Strategy ◽  
Distribution Method ◽  
Opportunistic Maintenance ◽  
Maintenance Costs ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbines

Owing to the late development of offshore wind power in China, operational data and maintenance experience are relatively scarce. Due to the harsh environmental conditions, a reliability analysis based on limited sample fault data has been regarded as an effective way to investigate maintenance optimization for offshore wind farms. The chief aim of the present work is to develop an effective strategy to reduce the maintenance costs of offshore wind turbines in consideration of their accessibility. The three-parameter Weibull distribution method was applied to failure rate estimation based on limited data. Moreover, considering the impacts of weather conditions on the marine maintenance activities, the Markov method and dynamic time window were used to depict the weather conditions. The opportunistic maintenance strategy was introduced to cut down on the maintenance costs through optimization of the preventive maintenance age and opportunistic maintenance age. The simulation analysis we have performed showed that the maintenance costs of the opportunistic maintenance strategy were 10% lower than those of the preventive maintenance strategy, verifying the effectiveness of the proposed maintenance strategy.

Effects of Power Generation on the Opportunistic Maintenance Strategy for Wind Turbines Considering Reliability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Zhang ◽  
Wei Gao ◽  
Tao Yang ◽  
Sheng Guo ◽  
Honggang Ding
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Research Trend ◽  
Maintenance Strategy ◽  
Opportunistic Maintenance ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Optimal Maintenance ◽  
A Current

Corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance are two common maintenance strategies used in the wind farms, whose drawbacks are obvious and significant. Opportunistic maintenance strategy takes advantage of the dependencies existing among the wind turbine components and implement combined maintenance actions to reduce the huge downtime cost. The opportunistic maintenance strategy for wind turbines has made a great progress, as well as the strategy considering imperfect and condition-based maintenance. However, existing maintenance strategy researches are usually concerned with the maintenance itself and the effects of power generation are barely considered. Nowadays, a current research trend in manufacturing system is the integration of maintenance and production planning. In this paper, the effects of power generation on opportunistic maintenance strategy for wind turbines considering reliability are researched. The opportunistic maintenance reliability threshold is not constant and depends on the real-time power generation. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the economical advantages of this proposed strategy over traditional opportunistic maintenance strategy. Moreover, the optimal maintenance combination is also provided.

scholarly journals Maintenance Grouping Optimization for Offshore Wind Turbine Considering Opportunities Based on Rolling Horizon Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Lua ◽  
Liping Suna ◽  
Jichuan Kanga ◽  
Xinyue Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Offshore Wind Turbine ◽  
Rolling Horizon ◽  
Imperfect Maintenance ◽  
Opportunistic Maintenance ◽  
Maintenance Schedule

Abstract In future, offshore wind turbines may be consider a crucial part in the supply of energy. Maintenance processes are directed to attain a safe and reliable operation of offshore machines and wind turbines. In this paper, an opportunistic maintenance strategy for offshore wind turbine is proposed, considering imperfect maintenance and the preventive maintenance durations. Reliability Centric Maintenance serves as a proactive tactic to operations and maintenance by inhibiting the possible reasons of poor performance and controlling failures. Other components can implement the opportunistic preventive maintenances if one component has reached its reliability threshold. According to the rolling horizon approach, it is of great importance to update the maintenance planning for the sake of the short-term information. By figuring out the best combination, the maintenance schedule in the mission time has been finally determined. Failure information are obtained from previous studies to accomplish the calculations. The outcomes indicate that the maintenance cost has been dramatically reduced through the application of opportunistic maintenance.

Prognosis Informed Design Framework for Operation and Maintenance of Wind Turbines

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasanna Tamilselvan ◽  
Yibin Wang ◽  
Pingfeng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Maintenance Strategy ◽  
System Failures ◽  
Operation And Maintenance ◽  
Failure Prognosis

Advances in high performance sensing and signal processing technology enable the development of failure prognosis tools for wind turbines to detect, diagnose, and predict the system-wide effects of failure events. Although prognostics can provide valuable information for proactive actions in preventing system failures, the benefits have not been fully utilized for the operation and maintenance decision making of wind turbines. This paper presents a generic failure prognosis informed decision making tool for wind farm operation and maintenance while considering the predictive failure information of individual turbine and its uncertainty. In the presented approach, the probabilistic damage growth model is used to characterize individual wind turbine performance degradation and failure prognostics, whereas the economic loss measured by monetary values and environmental performance measured by unified carbon credits are considered in the decision making process. Based on the customized wind farm information inputs, the developed decision making methodology can be used to identify optimum and robust strategies for wind farm operation and maintenance in order to maximize the economic and environmental benefits concurrently. The efficacy of proposed prognosis informed maintenance strategy is compared with the condition based maintenance strategy and demonstrated with the case study.

scholarly journals An improved opportunistic group replacement maintenance strategy for wind turbines

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 3627-3637
Author(s):  
Zhiyong Ma ◽  
Dameng Wang ◽  
Shiming Wu ◽  
Wei Teng ◽  
Yibing Liu
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbines ◽  
Maintenance Strategy
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