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A Survey of Artificial Neural Network in Wind Energy Systems
(Elsevier, 2018-10)
Wind energy has become one of the most important forms of renewable energy. Wind energy conversion systems are more sophisticated and new approaches are required based on advance analytics. This paper presents an exhaustive ...
Identification of critical components of wind turbines using FTA over time
(Elsevier, 2015-10-14)
Wind energy is currently the most widely implemented renewable energy source in global scale. Complex industrial multi-MW wind turbines are continuously being installed both onshore and offshore. Projects involving ...
Methods and Tools for the Operational Reliability Optimisation of Large-Scale Industrial Wind Turbines
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015-05-21)
Wind turbines (WT) maintenance management is in continuous development to improve the reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) of WTs, and to achieve time and cost reductions. The optimisation of the ...
Acoustic emission and signal processing for fault detection and location in composite materials
(Elsevier, 2015-11-01)
The renewable energy industry is in a constant improvement in order to compete and cover any evolving opportunity presented. Nowadays one of those remarkable competitive advantages is focused on maintenance management and ...
Multivariable Analysis for Advanced Analytics of Wind Turbine Management
(Springer Singapore, 2016-08-24)
Operation and maintenance tasks on the wind turbines have an essen- tial role to ensure the correct condition of the system and to minimize losses and increase the productivity. The condition monitoring systems installed ...
Maintenance Management based on Machine Learning and Nonlinear Features in Wind Turbines
(Elsevier, 2020-02)
Delamination is a common problem in wind turbine blades, creating stress concentration areas that can lead to the partial or complete rupture of the blade. This paper presents a novel delamination classification approach ...
Economic viability analysis for icing blades detection in wind turbines
(Elsevier, 2016-11-01)
Reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) of wind turbines in cold climates are closely related to ice accretion. The deterioration of RAMS of the wind turbines involves costs such as Operation and ...
False Alarms Analysis ofWind Turbine Bearing System
(MDPI, 2020-09-23)
Wind turbines are complex systems that use advanced condition monitoring systems for analyzing their health status.The gear box is one of the most critical components due to its elevated downtime and failure rate. Supervisory ...
Optimal Maintenance Management of Offshore Wind Farms
(MDPI, 2016-01-15)
Nowadays offshore wind energy is the renewable energy source with the highest growth. Offshore wind farms are composed of large and complex wind turbines, requiring a high level of reliability, availability, maintainability ...
Maintenance management of wind turbines structures via MFCs and wavelet transforms
(Elsevier, 2015-08)
This paper introduces a novel Fault Detection and Diagnosis method based on the wavelet transform to detect defects on the tower of a wind turbine. 24 Macro-Fiber Composite transducers have been placed to send and collect ...