Offshore wind turbine operations and maintenance: A state-of-the-art review

Z Ren, AS Verma, Y Li, JJE Teuwen, Z Jiang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Operations and maintenance of offshore wind turbines (OWTs) play an important role in the
development of offshore wind farms. Compared with operations, maintenance is a critical …

Maintenance optimization and inspection planning of wind energy assets: Models, methods and strategies

M Shafiee, JD Sørensen - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
Designing cost-effective inspection and maintenance programmes for wind energy farms is
a complex task involving a high degree of uncertainty due to diversity of assets and their …

[HTML][HTML] A review of operations and maintenance modelling with considerations for novel wind turbine concepts

J McMorland, C Flannigan, J Carroll, M Collu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
New wind turbine technologies and designs are being explored in order to reduce the cost
of energy from offshore wind farms. Two potential routes to a lower cost of energy are the X …

Maintenance cost minimization models for offshore wind farms: A systematic and critical review

MIH Tusar, BR Sarker - International Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Feasible and sustainable source of power is a burning question nowadays. The offshore
wind farms can be a solution to power generation problem, but it is relatively more …

Decision support models for operations and maintenance for offshore wind farms: a review

H Seyr, M Muskulus - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the state of the art in offshore wind farm operations and maintenance
with a focus on decision support models for the scheduling of maintenance. Factors …

Optimizing vessel fleet size and mix to support maintenance operations at offshore wind farms

M Stålhane, EE Halvorsen-Weare, LM Nonås… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper considers the problem of determining the optimal vessel fleet to support
maintenance operations at an offshore wind farm. We propose a two-stage stochastic …

[HTML][HTML] Testing the robustness of optimal access vessel fleet selection for operation and maintenance of offshore wind farms

IB Sperstad, M Stålhane, I Dinwoodie, OEV Endrerud… - Ocean …, 2017 - Elsevier
Optimising the operation and maintenance (O&M) and logistics strategy of offshore wind
farms implies the decision problem of selecting the vessel fleet for O&M. Different strategic …

Vessel fleet optimization for maintenance operations at offshore wind farms under uncertainty

M Stålhane, H Vefsnmo, EE Halvorsen-Weare… - Energy Procedia, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper we consider the problem of determining the optimal fleet size and mix of
vessels to support maintenance activities at offshore wind farms. A two-stage stochastic …

[HTML][HTML] Improving the strategy of maintaining offshore wind turbines through Petri net modelling

R Yan, S Dunnett - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
In order to improve the operation and maintenance (O&M) of offshore wind turbines, a new
Petri net (PN)-based offshore wind turbine maintenance model is developed in this paper to …

[HTML][HTML] Scheduling of maintenance tasks and routing of a joint vessel fleet for multiple offshore wind farms

NT Raknes, K Ødeskaug, M Stålhane… - Journal of Marine …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Maintenance costs related to offshore wind farms are severely limiting their potential for
being profitable. This paper proposes a new mathematical model that considers how …