Coordinating maintenance with spares logistics to minimize levelized cost of wind energy

Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, ICQR2MSE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1022-1027

  Jin, Tongdan ^a   Tian, Zhigang ^b   Huerta, Miguel ^a   Piechota, Jett ^a  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

performance based maintenance; preventive maintenance; service parts logistics; Weibull distribution; wind power

Indexed keywords

DECISION AIDS; DECISION MODELS; ENERGY YIELDS; GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; INVESTMENT RISKS; MAINTENANCE COST; MAINTENANCE POLICY; MAJOR FACTORS; MIXED INTEGER; OPTIMALITY; OWNERSHIP COSTS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; REPAIR SERVICES; SERVICE PARTS LOGISTICS; SPARES INVENTORY; STOCK LEVEL; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY; SYSTEM AVAILABILITY; THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS PROVIDERS; WIND FARMER; WIND SPEED;

COSTS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ENERGY RESOURCES; INVESTMENTS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND POWER;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84866624437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICQR2MSE.2012.6246397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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