Wind turbine SCADA alarm analysis for improving reliability

Wind Energy

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 951-966

  Qiu, Yingning ^a   Feng, Yanhui ^a   Tavner, Peter ^a   Richardson, Paul ^a   Erdos, Gabor ^b   Chen, Bindi ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL   (Hungary)

Author keywords

alarm; converter; pitch; reliability; SCADA; wind turbine

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FAULT DETECTION; GAS INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WIND; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ALARM; CONVERTER; DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS; PITCH; PROBABILITY-BASED ANALYSIS; SCADA; SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION; WIND TURBINE RELIABILITIES;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

ALARM SIGNAL; ALGORITHM; POWER LAW; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84870301659     PISSN: 10954244     EISSN: 10991824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/we.513     Document Type: Article

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