Opportunistic maintenance for wind farms considering multi-level imperfect maintenance thresholds

Renewable Energy

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 175-182

  Ding, Fangfang ^a   Tian, Zhigang ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Failure distribution; Opportunistic maintenance; Optimization; Preventive maintenance; Simulation; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE; FAILURE DISTRIBUTIONS; IMPERFECT MAINTENANCE; MAINTENANCE COST; MULTI-LEVEL; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPPORTUNISTIC MAINTENANCE; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SIMULATION; SIMULATION METHODS; TIME BASED MAINTENANCE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER INDUSTRY; WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; OPTIMIZATION; TURBINE COMPONENTS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY RESOURCE; MAINTENANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; THRESHOLD; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84859613470     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2012.02.030     Document Type: Article

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