Dr Peter Matthews' Outputs (86)

High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Solar PV Customers (2015)
Report
Bulkeley, H., Whitaker, G., Matthews, P., Bell, S., Lyon, S., & Powells, G. (2015). High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Solar PV Customers. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, EA Technology Limited and the University of Durham

This report examines the nature and practice of energy use by domestic customers in the CLNR project who generated their own solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity. It brings together power monitoring data capable of providing insight into how electrici... Read More about High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Solar PV Customers.

High Level Summary of Learning: Electrical Vehicle Users (2015)
Report
Capova, K., Wardle, R., Bell, S., Lyon, S., Bulkeley, H., Matthews, P., & Powells, G. (2015). High Level Summary of Learning: Electrical Vehicle Users. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, University of Durham and EA Technology Ltd

This report describes the CLNR trial which examined electric vehicles usage patterns and expected network loading in the event of large-scale take-up of electric vehicles. The trial involved domestic customers who owned an electric vehicle and had ac... Read More about High Level Summary of Learning: Electrical Vehicle Users.

High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers on Time of Use Tariffs (2015)
Report
Bulkeley, H., Matthews, P., Whitaker, G., Bell, S., Wardle, R., Lyon, S., & Powells, G. (2015). High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers on Time of Use Tariffs. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, University of Durham and EA Technology Ltd

This report presents the key messages from the final analysis of the time of use (ToU) tariff trial group in the Customer-Led Network Revolution monitoring trials. It presents outputs from a significant study of household electricity use and ToU tari... Read More about High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers on Time of Use Tariffs.

High Level Summary of Learning: Heat Pump Customers (2015)
Report
Bell, S., Capova, K., Barteczko-Hibbert, C., Matthews, P., Wardle, R., Bulkeley, H., …Powells, G. (2015). High Level Summary of Learning: Heat Pump Customers. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, University of Durham and EA Technology Ltd

This summary presents the key messages from the final analysis of the domestic heat pump group (test cell 3) in the Customer-Led Network Revolution monitoring trials. It presents outputs from the largest study of household electricity use in the UK a... Read More about High Level Summary of Learning: Heat Pump Customers.

High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers (2015)
Report
Bulkeley, H., Whitaker, G., Matthews, P., Bell, S., Lyon, S., & Powells, G. (2015). High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, EA Technology Limited and the University of Durham

This summary presents the key messages from the final analysis of the baseline domestic profile control group in the Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR) monitoring trials. It presents outputs from the largest study of household electricity use in... Read More about High Level Summary of Learning: Domestic Smart Meter Customers.

Micro-CHP Trial Report (2014)
Report
Jones, O., Wardle, R., & Matthews, P. (2014). Micro-CHP Trial Report. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited, University of Durham and EA Technology Ltd

This report presents an analysis of the performance of domestic Micro-CHP devices, installed at 11 separate domestic locations for the CLNR project. The report addresses Learning Objective 1 of the project, which is to enhance understanding of curren... Read More about Micro-CHP Trial Report.

Analysis of clustering techniques on load profiles for electrical distribution (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akperi, B., & Matthews, P. (2014, October). Analysis of clustering techniques on load profiles for electrical distribution. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Power System Technology, Chengdu, China

The classification of electrical load profiles has become increasingly important as a driver for distribution companies in understanding substation data. The daily load profile can often give great insight into the types of customers connected to the... Read More about Analysis of clustering techniques on load profiles for electrical distribution.

Modelling and Evaluation of Wind Speed Time Series for Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, C., Crabtree, C., Matthews, P., & Kazemtabrizi, B. Modelling and Evaluation of Wind Speed Time Series for Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms. Presented at 10th PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe, EAWE., Orléans, France

This paper outlines proposed testing criteria for wind speed time series (WSTS) models. The objective is to assess their suitability for reliability analysis that is dependent on an accurate representation of weather patterns. Two WSTS models were an... Read More about Modelling and Evaluation of Wind Speed Time Series for Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Farms.

Determining the Wind Speed Distribution within a Wind Farm considering Site Wind Characteristics and Wake Effects (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmad, T., Smith, C., Matthews, P., Crabtree, C., & Kazemtabrizi, B. Determining the Wind Speed Distribution within a Wind Farm considering Site Wind Characteristics and Wake Effects. Presented at 10th PhD Seminar on Wind Energy in Europe, EAWE., Orléans, France

This paper introduces a wind speed model for simulating the distribution of wind speeds within a wind farm. The model combines a macro scale wind speed time series (WSTS) model based on a continuous Markov process with a wake flow model, based on the... Read More about Determining the Wind Speed Distribution within a Wind Farm considering Site Wind Characteristics and Wake Effects.

Analysis of customer profiles on an electrical distribution network (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akperi, B., & Matthews, P. (2014, September). Analysis of customer profiles on an electrical distribution network. Presented at 2014 49th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Cluj-Napoca, Romania

It has become increasingly important for electrical distribution companies to understand the drivers of demand. The maximum demand at any given substation can vary materially on an annual basis which means it is difficult to create a load related inv... Read More about Analysis of customer profiles on an electrical distribution network.

Robust Statistical Methods for Rapid Data Labelling (2014)
Book Chapter
Godwin, J., & Matthews, P. (2014). Robust Statistical Methods for Rapid Data Labelling. In V. Bhatnagar (Ed.), Data mining and analysis in the engineering field (107-141). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6086-1.ch007

Labelling of data is an expensive, labour-intensive, and time consuming process and, as such, results in vast quantities of data being unexploited when performing analysis through data mining. This chapter presents a new paradigm using robust multiva... Read More about Robust Statistical Methods for Rapid Data Labelling.

Structural optimisation based on the boundary element and level set methods (2014)
Journal Article
Ullah, B., Trevelyan, J., & Matthews, P. (2014). Structural optimisation based on the boundary element and level set methods. Computers and Structures, 137, 14-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2014.01.004

A new method of structural topology optimisation is proposed in which an evolutionary approach is used with boundary element and level set methods. During the optimisation iterations, the proposed method automatically introduces internal cavities and... Read More about Structural optimisation based on the boundary element and level set methods.

Wind turbine pitch faults prognosis using a-priori knowledge-based ANFIS (2013)
Journal Article
Chen, B., Matthews, P., & Tavner, P. (2013). Wind turbine pitch faults prognosis using a-priori knowledge-based ANFIS. Expert Systems with Applications, 40(17), 6863-6876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2013.06.018

The fast growing wind industry has shown a need for more sophisticated fault prognosis analysis in the critical and high value components of a wind turbine (WT). Current WT studies focus on improving their reliability and reducing the cost of energy,... Read More about Wind turbine pitch faults prognosis using a-priori knowledge-based ANFIS.

Through-Life Systems Engineering Design & Support with SysML (2013)
Journal Article
Chandler, S., & Matthews, P. (2013). Through-Life Systems Engineering Design & Support with SysML. Procedia CIRP, 11, 425-430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2013.07.002

New system capability needs have been evaluated based primarily on the product design characteristics. This process neglects the other areas of the system design such as operational availability. The proposed solution takes a more holistic view of sy... Read More about Through-Life Systems Engineering Design & Support with SysML.

Classification and Detection of Electrical Control System Faults Through SCADA Data Analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Godwin, J., Matthews, P., & Watson, C. (2013). Classification and Detection of Electrical Control System Faults Through SCADA Data Analysis. Chemical engineering transactions, 1, 985-990. https://doi.org/10.3303/cet1333165

The development of electrical control system faults leads to increased mechanical component degradation, severe reduction of asset performance, and a direct increase in annual maintenance costs. This paper presents a highly accurate data driven class... Read More about Classification and Detection of Electrical Control System Faults Through SCADA Data Analysis.

Classification and Detection of Wind Turbine Pitch Faults Through SCADA Data Analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Godwin, J., & Matthews, P. (2013). Classification and Detection of Wind Turbine Pitch Faults Through SCADA Data Analysis. International journal of prognostics and health management, 4, Article 016

The development of wind turbine pitch faults leads to increased mechanical component degradation, severe reduction of asset performance, and a direct increase in annual maintenance costs for the operator. This paper presents a highly accurate data dr... Read More about Classification and Detection of Wind Turbine Pitch Faults Through SCADA Data Analysis.

Automated Wind Turbine Pitch Fault Prognosis using ANFIS (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, B., Matthews, P., & Tavner, P. (2013, February). Automated Wind Turbine Pitch Fault Prognosis using ANFIS. Presented at EWEA 2013, Vienna, Austria

Many current wind turbine (WT) studies focus on improving their reliability and reducing the cost of energy, particularly when WTs are operated offshore. WT Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems contain alarms and signals that prov... Read More about Automated Wind Turbine Pitch Fault Prognosis using ANFIS.

Insight Report: Domestic Time of Use Tariff: A comparison of the time of use tariff trial to the baseline domestic profiles (2013)
Report
Whitaker, G., Wardle, R., Barteczko-Hibbert, C., Matthews, P., Bulkeley, H., & Powells, G. (2013). Insight Report: Domestic Time of Use Tariff: A comparison of the time of use tariff trial to the baseline domestic profiles. Northern Powergrid (Northeast) Limited, Northern Powergrid (Yorkshire) Plc, British Gas Trading Limited EA Technology Ltd and the University of Durham

Peak electricity demand poses a particular challenge both to network operators and to energy suppliers. A reduction in peak demand would allow existing networks to accommodate load growth with lower investment, and also reduce the cost of electricity... Read More about Insight Report: Domestic Time of Use Tariff: A comparison of the time of use tariff trial to the baseline domestic profiles.

Structural optimisation using boundary element based level set method (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ullah, B., Trevelyan, J., & Matthews, P. (2012, December). Structural optimisation using boundary element based level set method. Presented at Proceedings of the 20th UK conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ACME), University of Manchester, Manchester

Bayesian project diagnosis for the construction design process (2012)
Journal Article
Matthews, P., & Philip, A. (2012). Bayesian project diagnosis for the construction design process. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 26(4), 375-391. https://doi.org/10.1017/s089006041200025x

This study demonstrates how subtle signals taken from the early stages within a construction process can be used to diagnose potential problems within that process. For this study, the construction process is modeled as a quasi-Markov chain. A set of... Read More about Bayesian project diagnosis for the construction design process.