OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES FOR WIND TURBINE SYSTEMS Conference Paper

abstract

• We examine optimal repair strategies for wind turbines operated under stochastic weather conditions. In-situ sensors installed at wind turbines produce useful information about the physical conditions of the system. Based on the information from sensors, our research objective is to derive an optimal maintenance policy that minimizes the expected average cost. We formulate the problem as a partially observed Markov decision process. Several critical factors, such as weather conditions, lengthy lead times and production losses, which are unique to wind farm operations, are considered. We derive a set of closed-form expressions for the optimal policy and show that it belongs to the class of monotonic four-region policies. These structural results of the optimal policy reflect the practical implications of the turbine deterioration process.

authors

• Ntaimo, Lewis

published proceedings

• 15TH ISSAT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RELIABILITY AND QUALITY IN DESIGN, PROCEEDINGS

author list (cited authors)

• Byon, E., Ntaimo, L., & Ding, Y. u.

complete list of authors

• Byon, Eunshin||Ntaimo, Lewis||Ding, Yu

publication date

• December 2009

keywords

• Partially Observed Markov Decision Process
• Stochastic Environments
• Wind Turbine Operations And Maintenance

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-0-9763486-5-8

start page

• 75

end page

• 79