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Decision Making for Wind Turbine Fabrication by Logical Decision Tree and Binary Decision Diagrams: A Real Case Study of Wind Turbine Manufacturing
(MDPI, 2019-05)
The wind energy industry is expanding in order to be able to meet the current and
future energy demand, and is supported by governments in that renewable energy investment has been made. Optimal decision making (DM) in ...
Inspection and structural health monitoring techniques for concentrated solar power plants
(2016)
Parabolic trough concentrators are the most widely deployed type of solar thermal power plant. The majority of parabolic trough plants operate up to 400 °C. However, recent technological advances involving molten salts ...
Maintenance Management in Wind Turbines by Monitoring the Bearing Temperature
(Springer, 2019-06)
Wind turbines are increasing in number, size and market share. It is determined whether they are efficient through operating and maintenance costs. Therefore, one of the main objectives of the wind turbines is to increase ...
An approach to solve OPF problems using a novel hybrid whale and sine cosine optimization algorithm
(IOS Press, 2021-03-05)
Nowadays, improvement in power system performance is essential to obtaine economic and technical benifits. To
achieve this, optimize the large number of parameters in the system based on optimal power flow(OPF). For solving ...
Cracks and weld detection approach in solar receiver tubes employing EMATS
(2017-10)
There is a significant rising in development of new concentrated solar plants due to global energy demands. Concentrated solar plant requires to improve the operational and maintainability in this industry. This article ...
Photovoltaic Plant Condition Monitoring using Thermal Images Analysis by Convolutional Neural Network-Based Structure
(Elsevier, 2020-01)
The size and the complexity of photovoltaic solar power plants are increasing, and it requires an advanced and robust condition monitoring systems for ensuring their reliability. This paper proposes a novel method for ...
Artificial Intelligence for Concentrated Solar Plant Maintenance Management
(Springer Singapore, 2016-08-24)
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is an alternative to the conventional energy
sources which has had significant advances nowadays. A proper predictive
maintenance program for the absorber pipes is required to detect defects ...
Online Fault Detection in Solar Plants Using a Wireless Radiometer in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(Springer, 2017-06-29)
A novel Non-Destructive Test (NDT) is presented in this paper. It employs a radiometric sensor that measures the infrared emissivity of the solar panel surface embedded in an unmanned aerial vehicle. The measurements ...
ENDURUNS: An Integrated and Flexible Approach for Seabed Survey Through Autonomous Mobile Vehicles
(MDPI, 2020-08)
The oceans cover more than two-thirds of the planet, representing the vastest part of natural resources. Nevertheless, only a fraction of the ocean depths has been explored. Within this context, this article presents the ...
Proyecto Europeo ENDURUNS: Inspección de mares y océanos a través de vehículos autónomos. Desarrollo de ensayos no destructivos.
(Asociación española de ensayos no destructivos, 2020-10)
La industria marina requiere continuamente de la aplicación de nuevos métodos, tecnologías y sistemas de inspección. El mantenimiento o las tareas de reparación son cada vez más comunes y necesarias en este entorno. La ...