Wind Energy End-of-Life Options: Theory and Practice
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 August 2024 | Viewed by 4671
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanics and dynamics; on/offshore wind energy systems (electro-mechanical and structural sub-systems); experimental modal analysis; fatigue load analysis and lifetime extension assessment
Interests: electrical power conversion; wind energy; offshore renewable energy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There are now a significant number of wind farms that have reached or are about to reach the end of their design or consent life. Wind farm owners and operators are often faced with difficult decisions about whether to decommission, repower or extend the lifetime of these assets. These decisions will have an impact on the communities, wider economy and environment of where the wind farms are operating and will also have a potentially significant impact on energy generation.
This Special Issue is dedicated to studies that help make those end-of-life decisions both easier and more robust. We welcome papers that help evaluate any of those options and those contributions to improving this decision-making process and dealing with the inherent uncertainties across a wide range of topics.
The submission topics, with no order of importance, include, but are not limited to:
- End-of-life decision-making (decommissioning, repowering, and life extension);
- Analysis of social, environmental, and economic impacts of end-of-life choices;
- Asset management and legislative aspects of end-of-life decisions;
- Consideration of the planning and permitting system for end-of-life decisions;
- Decision-making tools development and case study analysis;
- End of life options assessment based on optimisation techniques, stochastic modelling, etc.;
- Considerations of communities in end-of-life decision making, including social acceptance.
Determination of Remaining Useful Life (RUL) and extension of service life:
- Advanced methodologies to estimate RUL in on/offshore wind, repowering and lifetime extension: components include those in structural, mechanical and electro-mechanical subsystems;
- Stochastic methodology development: Uncertainty quantification and risk/safety assessment in lifetime extension;
- Monitoring, inspection and measurement: examples are but not limited to novel monitoring methods, measurement devices/sensors and inspection techniques;
- Novel control, devices and operation strategy to improve performance and reduce service life loads: retuning the control system over service life, machine learning based controller design, devices in terms of additions, e.g., vortex generators, vibration dampers, lubricant additives, etc.;
- Operation and maintenance strategy and reliability analysis over service life;
- Data-driven (machine learning) and statistical methods: non-conventional techniques for loads and damage assessment as well as end of life analysis.
Dr. Abbas Mehrad Kazemi Amiri
Prof. Dr. Alasdair McDonald
Dr. Rebecca Windemer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- onshore wind
- offshore wind
- repowering
- life-extension
- decommissioning
- life prediction
- failure analysis
- remaining useful life
- fatigue loads
- load mitigation
- uncertainty and risk assessment
- end-of-life decisions
- conditions and structural health monitoring
