An improved opportunistic group replacement maintenance strategy for wind turbines

Autor: Zhiyong Ma, Dameng Wang, Shiming Wu, Wei Teng, Yibing Liu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Energy Science & Engineering, Vol 8, Iss 10, Pp 3627-3637 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2050-0505
DOI: 10.1002/ese3.770
Popis: Abstract In traditional opportunistic group replacement maintenance (OGRM) strategy for wind turbines, the reliability thresholds of different subassemblies are set the same and its two‐step optimization for maintenance cost is diseconomy. In this paper, an improved OGRM strategy for wind turbines is proposed. A uniform formulation on maintenance cost concerning different maintenance activities is presented. On the basis of this, an integrated objective function minimizing the maintenance cost is established, and the reliability thresholds of each subassembly of wind turbines are individually severed as the optimization variables of the objective function. The coordinate rotation method is utilized for solving this optimization problem. A maintenance case based on the proposed strategy from a wind farm in North China is implemented, which verifies its superior performance than the traditional opportunistic group maintenance strategy.
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