Offshore wind turbines : reliability, availability and maintenance / Peter Tavner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tavner, Peter.

Contributor:

Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Series:

Renewable energy series ; 13.

Renewable energy series ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wind power.

Wind turbines.

Offshore wind power plants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first book to specifically focus on offshore wind turbine technology and which addresses practically wind turbine reliability and availability. The book draws on the author's experience of power generation reliability and availability and the condition monitoring of that plant to describe the problems facing the developers of offshore wind farms and the solutions available to them to raise availability, reduce cost of energy and improve through life cost.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62198-567-9

1-299-10444-4

1-84919-230-8

OCLC:

854970289