dc.contributor.author | Rinaldi, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Thies, PR | |
dc.contributor.author | Walker, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Johanning, L | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-04T13:41:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-09-20 | |
dc.description.abstract | In order to accelerate the access into the energy market for ocean renewables, the operation and maintenance (O & M) costs for these technologies must be reduced. In this paper a reliability-based simulation tool for the optimization of the management of an offshore renewable energy (ORE) farm is presented. The proposed tool takes into account the reliability data of the simulated devices and estimations on the energy produced to create a series of results in terms of availability and maintainability of the farm. The information produced supports operational and strategic decision making regarding the O & M for offshore farms. A case study simulating a conceptual tidal energy project, consisting of an array of two tidal turbines located off the north coast of Scotland, is presented to show some of the results achievable with this model. The proposed methodology, although ado pted for a tidal farm here, is generally applicable to other kinds of ORE farms. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research has been conducted within the multinational Initial Training Network (ITN) OceaNET, funded under the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework ProgrammeFP7/2007-2013/under REA grant agreement no 607656. Mojo Maritime have provided access to Mermaid to support, and for integration with, this research. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 145, pp. 250 - 262 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2017.08.019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30825 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Reliability | en_GB |
dc.subject | Availability | en_GB |
dc.subject | Optimization | en_GB |
dc.subject | Operation and maintenance | en_GB |
dc.subject | Tidal farm | en_GB |
dc.title | A decision support model to optimise the operation and maintenance strategies of an offshore renewable energy farm | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0029-8018 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Ocean Engineering | en_GB |