Review of offshore wind turbine failures and fault prognostic methods

Proceedings of IEEE 2012 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference, PHM-2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lau, Bill Chun Piu ^a   Ma, Eden Wai Man ^a   Pecht, Michael ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Failures; Hidden Markov Model; Neural Networks; Offshore Wind Turbine; Particle Filter; Prognostics

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVE; COST OF MANUFACTURING; ENERGY RESEARCH CENTRES; ENERGY SOURCE; FAULT PROGNOSTICS; GRID CONTROL; INVESTMENT COSTS; MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES; NETHERLANDS; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES; OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; PARTICLE FILTER; PROGNOSTICS; QUALITY DESIGN; SYSTEM HEALTH MANAGEMENT; WIND ELECTRICITY;

CONDITION MONITORING; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INVESTMENTS; MAINTENANCE; NEURAL NETWORKS; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

WIND TURBINES;

EID: 84866170166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PHM.2012.6228954     Document Type: Conference Paper

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