Title
Maintenance optimization for a single wind turbine component under time-varying costs
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a new, single-component model for maintenance optimization under timevarying costs, specifically oriented at offshore wind turbine maintenance. We extend the standard age replacement policy (ARP), block replacement policy (BRP) and modified block replacement policy (MBRP) to address time-varying costs. We prove that an optimal maintenance policy under time-varying costs is a time-dependent ARP policy. Via a discretization of time, the optimal time-dependent ARP can be found using a linear programming formulation. We also present mixed integer linear programming models for parameter optimization of BRP and MBRP. We present a business case and apply our policies for maintenance planning of a wind turbine gearbox and show that we can achieve savings up-to 23%.(c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.ejor.2021.09.004
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Maintenance, Age replacement policy, Block replacement policy, Time-varying costs, Offshore wind turbine
Journal
300
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0377-2217
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thijs Nicolaas Schouten100.34
Rommert Dekker2763101.60
Mustafa Hekimoglu300.34
Ayse Sena Eruguz400.34