Assets reliability is a key issue to consider in the maintenance management policy and given its importance several estimation methods and models have been proposed within the reliability engineering discipline. However, these models involve certain assumptions which are the source of different uncertainties inherent to the estimations. An...
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March 20, 2020 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: March 25, 2023
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September 3, 2019 (v1)Publication
The growth in the wind energy sector is demanding projects in which profitability must be ensured. To fulfil such aim, the levelized cost of energy should be reduced, and this can be done by enhancing the Operational Expenditure through excellence in Operations & Maintenance. There is a considerable amount of work in the literature that deals...
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March 23, 2020 (v1)Publication
The increasing demand for energy from renewable sources is entailing the development of technologies oriented to increase the profitability of such projects and thus the attractiveness for potential investors. Wind power constitutes one of the most relevant renewable energy sources; however, the costs of the wind farms associated with...
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June 12, 2020 (v1)Publication
The maintenance management of large fleets of assets which include several technical solutions operating in different operational contexts has been a recurrent research topic in the literature. Current approaches to establishing fleet maintenance plans are primarily criticality-based, considering failures consequences and assets reliability;...
Uploaded on: March 27, 2023