Simulation of wind farm operations and maintenance using discrete event system specification

SIMULATION

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1093-1117

  Byon, Eunshin ^a   Pérez, Eduardo ^a   Ding, Yu ^a   Ntaimo, Lewis ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

condition based maintenance; DEVS; renewable energy; scheduled maintenance; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE; OUTAGES; SPECIFICATIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DEVS; DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEM SPECIFICATION; MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION;

EID: 82955194873     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: 17413133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037549710376841     Document Type: Article

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