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Condition Monitoring for Device Reliability in Power Electronic Converters: A Review (2010)
Journal Article
Yang, S., Xiang, D., Bryant, A., Mawby, P., Ran, L., & Tavner, P. (2010). Condition Monitoring for Device Reliability in Power Electronic Converters: A Review. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 25(11), 2734-2752. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2010.2049377

Condition monitoring (CM) has already been proven to be a cost effective means of enhancing reliability and improving customer service in power equipment, such as transformers and rotating electrical machinery. CM for power semiconductor devices in p... Read More about Condition Monitoring for Device Reliability in Power Electronic Converters: A Review.

Early experiences with UK Round 1 offshore wind farms (2010)
Journal Article
Feng, Y., Tavner, P., & Long, H. (2010). Early experiences with UK Round 1 offshore wind farms. Energy, 163(4), 167-181. https://doi.org/10.1680/ener.2010.163.4.167

The UK government plans that offshore wind power should play a major part in meeting the UK’s renewable energy and carbon emission targets by 2020. The pioneer UK round 1 offshore wind farm projects, based on sites let in 2001, were supported by the... Read More about Early experiences with UK Round 1 offshore wind farms.

Detecting incipient wind turbine gearbox failure: a signal analysis method for on-line condition monitoring (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, C., Feng, Y., & Tavner, P. (2010). Detecting incipient wind turbine gearbox failure: a signal analysis method for on-line condition monitoring.

Condition monitoring of wind turbines is gaining importance as turbines become larger and move to more inaccessible locations, such as offshore. Condition monitoring based on methods conventionally used in the power generation industry have been demo... Read More about Detecting incipient wind turbine gearbox failure: a signal analysis method for on-line condition monitoring.

Methodology and Results of the Reliawind Reliability Field Study (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilkinson, M., Hendriks, B., Spinato, F., Gomez, E., Bulacio, H., Roca, J., …Long, H. (2010). Methodology and Results of the Reliawind Reliability Field Study.

Using an FMEA Method to Compare Prospective Wind Turbine Design Reliabilities (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tavner, P., Higgins, A., Arabian, H., Long, H., & Feng, Y. (2010). Using an FMEA Method to Compare Prospective Wind Turbine Design Reliabilities.

Study of effects of weather & location on wind turbine failure rates (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
on wind turbine failure rates.

Reliability Analysis and Prediction of Wind Turbine Gearboxes (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smolders, K., Long, H., Feng, Y., & Tavner, P. (2010). Reliability Analysis and Prediction of Wind Turbine Gearboxes.

Condition monitoring of the power output of wind turbine generators using wavelets (2010)
Journal Article
Watson, S., Xiang, J., Yang, W., Tavner, P., & Crabtree, C. (2010). Condition monitoring of the power output of wind turbine generators using wavelets. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 25(3), 715-721. https://doi.org/10.1109/tec.2010.2040083

With an increasing number of wind turbines being erected offshore, there is a need for cost-effective, predictive, and proactive maintenance. A large fraction of wind turbine downtime is due to bearing failures, particularly in the generator and gear... Read More about Condition monitoring of the power output of wind turbine generators using wavelets.

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for wind turbines (2010)
Journal Article
Arabian-Hoseynabadi, H., Oraee, H., & Tavner, P. (2010). Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for wind turbines. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 32(7), 817-824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2010.01.019

The Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) method has been used to study the reliability of many different power generation systems. This paper now applies that method to a wind turbine (WT) system using a proprietary software reliability analysis... Read More about Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for wind turbines.

Wind turbine productivity considering electrical subassembly reliability (2010)
Journal Article
Arabian-Hoseynabadi, H., Oraee, H., & Tavner, P. (2010). Wind turbine productivity considering electrical subassembly reliability. Renewable Energy, 35(1), 190-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2009.04.014

This paper proposes a reliability model for the electrical subassemblies of geared wind turbine systems with induction generators. The model is derived considering the failure of main subassemblies and their parameters are calculated. A productivity... Read More about Wind turbine productivity considering electrical subassembly reliability.

Reliability comparison of direct-drive and geared-drive wind turbine concepts (2010)
Journal Article
Arabian-Hoseynabadi, H., Tavner, P., & Oraee, H. (2010). Reliability comparison of direct-drive and geared-drive wind turbine concepts. Wind Energy, 13(1), 62-73. https://doi.org/10.1002/we.357

This paper proposes for wind turbines (WTs) an analytical reliability method, used on other engineering systems, to compare the reliability of different turbine concepts. The main focus of the paper is to compare the reliability of geared generator a... Read More about Reliability comparison of direct-drive and geared-drive wind turbine concepts.

Cost-effective condition monitoring for wind turbines (2010)
Journal Article
Yang, W., Tavner, P., Crabtree, C., & Wilkinson, M. (2010). Cost-effective condition monitoring for wind turbines. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 57(1), 263-271. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2009.2032202

Cost-effective wind turbine (WT) condition monitoring assumes more importance as turbine sizes increase and they are placed in more remote locations, for example, offshore. Conventional condition monitoring techniques, such as vibration, lubrication... Read More about Cost-effective condition monitoring for wind turbines.