Wind turbine reliability data review and impacts on levelised cost of energy

C Dao, B Kazemtabrizi, C Crabtree - Wind Energy, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Reliability is critical to the design, operation, maintenance, and performance assessment
and improvement of wind turbines (WTs). This paper systematically reviews publicly …

Artificial intelligence based prognostic maintenance of renewable energy systems: A review of techniques, challenges, and future research directions

YS Afridi, K Ahmad, L Hassan - International Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the depletion of fossil fuels, the world has started to rely heavily on renewable sources
of energy. With every passing year, our dependency on renewable sources of energy is …

An integrated fault diagnosis and prognosis approach for predictive maintenance of wind turbine bearing with limited samples

J Wang, Y Liang, Y Zheng, RX Gao, F Zhang - Renewable energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Predictive maintenance has raised much research interest to improve the system reliability
of a wind turbine. This paper presents a new model based approach of integrated fault …

Monitoring wind turbine gearboxes

Y Feng, Y Qiu, CJ Crabtree, H Long, PJ Tavner - Wind energy, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Concerns amongst wind turbine (WT) operators about gearbox reliability arise from complex
repair procedures, high replacement costs and long downtimes leading to revenue losses …

Reliability prediction of an offshore wind turbine gearbox

U Bhardwaj, AP Teixeira, CG Soares - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper estimates the failure rate of an offshore wind turbine gearbox based on the data
available for similar, known onshore wind turbine systems. The gearbox is one critical …

[HTML][HTML] Analysing RMS and peak values of vibration signals for condition monitoring of wind turbine gearboxes

J Igba, K Alemzadeh, C Durugbo, ET Eiriksson - Renewable Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Wind turbines (WTs) are designed to operate under extreme environmental conditions. This
means that extreme and varying loads experienced by WT components need to be …

Availability, operation and maintenance costs of offshore wind turbines with different drive train configurations

J Carroll, A McDonald, I Dinwoodie, D McMillan… - Wind …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Different configurations of gearbox, generator and power converter exist for offshore wind
turbines. This paper investigated the performance of four prominent drive train …

Diagnosis of faulty wind turbine bearings using tower vibration measurements

F Castellani, L Garibaldi, AP Daga, D Astolfi, F Natili - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Condition monitoring of gear-based mechanical systems in non-stationary operation
conditions is in general very challenging. This issue is particularly important for wind energy …

[HTML][HTML] Performance assessment of wind turbine gearboxes using in-service data: Current approaches and future trends

J Igba, K Alemzadeh, C Durugbo… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
The evolution of the wind industry in the last decade has not only seen growth in the
installed capacity of turbines and innovation within the industry, but has also seen an …

Optimal preventive maintenance strategies for a wind turbine gearbox

Y Aafif, A Chelbi, L Mifdal, S Dellagi, I Majdouline - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates two maintenance strategies for wind turbine gearboxes. The first one
is frequently adopted in practice. It consists in monitoring the state of the gearbox through its …