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Modelling System Failures (MSF) is a unique quantitative maintenance optimisation technique which permits the evaluation of life-data samples and enables the design and simulation of the system's model to determine optimum maintenance activities. In this paper, the approach of MSF is used to assess the failure characteristics of a horizontal axis wind turbine. Field failure data are collated and analysed using the Maximum Likelihood Estimation in the Weibull Distribution; hence shape (β) and scale (η) parameters are estimated for critical components and subsystems of the wind turbine. Reliability Block Diagrams are designed to model the failures of the wind turbine and of a selected wind farm. The models are simulated to assess the reliability, availability and maintainability of the wind turbine and the farm; taking into account the costs and availability of maintenance crew and spares holding. Optimal maintenance activities are determined to minimise the total life-cycle cost of the wind farm.
Wind Engineering – SAGE
Published: Dec 1, 2007
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