Projects per year
Abstract
Every day, wind farm operators make logistical decisions requiring them to efficiently use resources to maximise wind turbine availability. Deciding which turbines to maintain, the order in which they are visited and vessel routing is challenging due to multiple constraints such as weather, failure type and available vessels and technicians. To automate this decision making process, the authors collaborated with a UK offshore wind farm operator to create a tool, which recommends an on-the-day vessel routing strategy, such that costs are minimised while maximising the number of turbines repaired. To demonstrate the tool's capabilities, a case study is presented and the model's outputs, which include geographical locations of the turbines to be visited, are shown.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Number of pages | 10 |
Publication status | Published - 29 Sept 2016 |
Event | WindEurope Summit 2016 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 27 Sept 2016 → 30 Sept 2016 https://windeurope.org/summit2016/ |
Conference
Conference | WindEurope Summit 2016 |
---|---|
Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Hamburg |
Period | 27/09/16 → 30/09/16 |
Internet address |
Keywords
- offshore wind
- O&M optimization
- vessel routing
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'Development of an O&M tool for short term decision making applied to offshore wind farms'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
- 1 Finished
-
Doctoral training centre in wind energy systems | Dawid, Rafael
McMillan, D. (Principal Investigator), Revie, M. (Co-investigator) & Dawid, R. (Research Co-investigator)
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/10/13 → 19/09/19
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated