Evaluating the Performance of Maintenance Strategies: A Simulation-based Approach for Wind Turbines

Clemens Gutschi; Nikolaus Furian; Siegfried Vössner; Athanasios Kolios; Moritz Graefe

Evaluating the Performance of Maintenance Strategies: A Simulation-based Approach for Wind Turbines

Clemens Gutschi, Nikolaus Furian, Siegfried Vössner, Athanasios Kolios, Moritz Graefe

Institute of Engineering and Business Informatics (3740)

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Abstract

The performance of multi-component systems is heavily influenced by the individual maintenance strategy applied on each subsystem, its costs and the impact of subsystem fails on the performance of the whole system. For an assessment of different combinations of maintenance strategies, we present a simulation-based evaluation approach applied to an offshore wind farm, investigating the produced energy and levelized costs of electricity. The evaluation is carried out by breaking wind turbines down into major subsystems, applying different suitable maintenance strategies to them and monitoring the performance of the entire wind farm. The investigated configurations include corrective, predictive and reliability-centered maintenance strategies. Thereby we investigate limits regarding minimum and maximum performance as well as the impact of a realistic application of monitoring systems on system performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2019
Place of Publication	National Harbor, MD, USA
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	842-853
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728132839
Publication status	Published - 20 Feb 2020
Event	Winter Simulation Conference: WSC 2019 - National Harbor, United States Duration: 8 Dec 2019 → 11 Dec 2019 Conference number: 19 http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2019/

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
Volume	2019-December
ISSN (Print)	0891-7736

Conference

Conference	Winter Simulation Conference
Abbreviated title	WSC'19
Country/Territory	United States
Period	8/12/19 → 11/12/19
Internet address	http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/wsc2019/

Keywords

wind turbines
levelized costs of electricity
maintenance strategy selection problem
reliability centered maintenance
Predictive Maintenance
multi-component systems

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Management Science and Operations Research
Energy(all)
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Fields of Expertise

Mobility & Production
Sustainable Systems

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Gutschi, C., Furian, N., Vössner, S., Kolios, A., & Graefe, M. (2020). Evaluating the Performance of Maintenance Strategies: A Simulation-based Approach for Wind Turbines. In 2019 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2019 (pp. 842-853). [9004681] (Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference; Vol. 2019-December). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9004681

Evaluating the Performance of Maintenance Strategies: A Simulation-based Approach for Wind Turbines. / Gutschi, Clemens ; Furian, Nikolaus ; Vössner, Siegfried et al.

2019 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2019. National Harbor, MD, USA : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020. p. 842-853 9004681 (Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference; Vol. 2019-December).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Gutschi, C , Furian, N , Vössner, S, Kolios, A & Graefe, M 2020, Evaluating the Performance of Maintenance Strategies: A Simulation-based Approach for Wind Turbines. in 2019 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2019., 9004681, Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference, vol. 2019-December, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, National Harbor, MD, USA, pp. 842-853, Winter Simulation Conference, Maryland, United States, 8/12/19. <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9004681>

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