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Assessment of Early Stopping through Statistical Health Prognostic Models for Empirical RUL Estimation in Wind Turbine Main Bearing Failure Monitoring

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  • Jürgen Herp

    (The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark)

  • Niels L. Pedersen

    (Diagnostics, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, 7330 Brande, Denmark)

  • Esmaeil S. Nadimi

    (The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark)

Abstract

Details about a fault’s progression, including the remaining-useful-lifetime (RUL), are key features in monitoring, industrial operation and maintenance (O&M) planning. In order to avoid increases in O&M costs through subjective human involvement and over-conservative control strategies, this work presents models to estimate the RUL for wind turbine main bearing failures. The prediction of the RUL is estimated from a likelihood function based on concepts from prognostics and health management, and survival analysis. The RUL is estimated by training the model on run-to-failure wind turbines, extracting a parametrization of a probability density function. In order to ensure analytical moments, a Weibull distribution is assumed. Alongside the RUL model, the fault’s progression is abstracted as discrete states following the bearing stages from damage detection, through overtemperature warnings, to over overtemperature alarms and failure, and are integrated in a separate assessment model. Assuming a naïve O&M plan (wind turbines are run as close to failure as possible without regards for infrastructure or supply chain constrains), 67 non run-to-failure wind turbines are assessed with respect to their early stopping, revealing the potential RUL lost. These are turbines that have been stopped by the operator prior to their failure. On average it was found that wind turbines are stopped 13 days prior to their failure, accumulating 786 days of potentially lost operations across the 67 wind turbines.

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  • Jürgen Herp & Niels L. Pedersen & Esmaeil S. Nadimi, 2019. "Assessment of Early Stopping through Statistical Health Prognostic Models for Empirical RUL Estimation in Wind Turbine Main Bearing Failure Monitoring," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-18, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:13:y:2019:i:1:p:83-:d:301186
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