Offshore wind turbines : reliability, availability and maintenance

The development of offshore wind power has become a pressing modern energy issue in which the UK is taking a major part, driven by the need to find new electrical power sources, avoiding the use of fossil fuels, in the knowledge of the extensive wind resource available around our islands and the fac...

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Main Author Tavner, Peter
Corporate Author Institution of Engineering and Technology
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2012.
SeriesRenewable energy series ; 13.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781621985679
1621985679
1849192308
9781849192309
9781849192293
1849192294
9781299104440
1299104444
Physical Description1 online resource (xxi, 268 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgements; Nomenclature; List of abbreviations; 1. Overview of offshore wind development; 2. Reliability theory relevant to offshore wind turbines; 3. Practical wind turbine reliability; 4. Effects of wind turbine configuration on reliability; 5. Design and testing for wind turbine availability; 6. Effect of reliability on offshore availability; 7. Monitoring wind turbines; 8. Maintenance for offshore wind turbines; 9. Conclusions; 10. Appendix 1: Historical evolution of wind turbines; 11. Appendix 2: Reliability data collection for the wind industry
  • 12. Appendix 3: WMEP operators report form13. Appendix 4: Commercially available SCADA systems for WTs; 14. Appendix 5: Commercially available condition monitoring systems for WTs; 15. Appendix 6: Weather, its influence on offshore wind reliability; Index