An optimal integrated production and maintenance strategy for a multi-wind turbines system

This paper presents an optimal integrated production and maintenance strategy for a wind farm. A cost model is developed in order to determine sequentially the optimal plan of energy production characterised by the number of working wind turbines and their production rates, and the optimal preventiv...

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Published inInternational journal of production research Vol. 58; no. 21; pp. 6417 - 6440
Main Authors Hajej, Zied, Nidhal, Rezg, Anis, Chelbi, Bouzoubaa, Maryem
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Taylor & Francis 01.11.2020
Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects
energy production
Engineering Sciences
Failure rates
integrated maintenance
optimisation
Preventive maintenance
reliability
renewable energy
Sensitivity analysis
Wind power
wind turbine
Wind turbines
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Summary:This paper presents an optimal integrated production and maintenance strategy for a wind farm. A cost model is developed in order to determine sequentially the optimal plan of energy production characterised by the number of working wind turbines and their production rates, and the optimal preventive maintenance policy to be adopted. We model the relationship between the variation of energy production rates and the failure rate of the wind turbines. A numerical example and a sensitivity analysis are presented and the obtained results are discussed.
ISSN:0020-7543
1366-588X
DOI:10.1080/00207543.2019.1680897