GOALI/Collaborative Research: A System-Level Framework for Operation and Maintenance: Synergizing Near and Long Term Cares for Wind Turbines

GOALI(GOALI)合作研究项目旨在了解系统运行和维护方法如何提高风力涡轮机的效率和盈利能力。目前，运行和维护的概念和方法主要是面向组件的。该项目将表明，系统级方法可以在风险和成本之间产生更好的权衡，从而优化工程系统以实现整体经济价值。该团队将开发一种方法来衡量风力涡轮机系统的整体性能，并在系统层面上跟踪其随时间的下降。建立系统级指标使我们能够主动调整汽轮机的运行，实现近期发电量和系统可靠性之间的权衡。它还允许PI权衡维护成本和电力效率损失，从而做出具有成本效益的维护决策。这一新方法的成功开发应该会导致可再生能源生产的成本效益高的运营和维护，并降低其总体成本并增强其市场适销性(这是风能到2030年20%的目标和长期可持续性的关键)。风能领军企业通用电气是该项目的研究合作伙伴。通用电气的直接参与加速了所产生的方法在实际风能运营系统中的应用。这项研究和行业参与的合作性质为大学带来了行业视角，并正在培训我们在新能源经济中的下一代劳动力。系统级的概念和方法一旦在风能应用中得到展示，就可以超越并应用于其他电力生产系统，以及汽车系统、航空航天系统和海洋系统。

The objective of this Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) collaborative research project is to understand how a systems approach to operations and maintenance can enhance the effectiveness and profitability of wind turbines. Currently, operation and maintenance concepts and methods are predominantly components-oriented. This project will show that a system-level approach can yield a better trade-off between risks and costs, thereby optimizing an engineered system for overall economic value. The team will develop a way to measure a wind turbine system's holistic performance and tracks its decline over time at a system level. Establishing a system-level metric enables us to actively adjust a turbine's operation and realize a trade-off between near-term power production and system reliability. It also allows the PIs to weigh cost of maintenance against loss in power efficiency, leading to cost-effective decisions of maintenance. The successful development of this new methodology ought to lead to cost-effective operation and maintenance of renewable energy productions, and reduce its overall cost and enhances their marketability (a key to the wind energy's 20percent-by-2030 goal and long-term sustainability). General Electric, a leading enterprise in wind energy, is a research partner of this project. GE's direct participation accelerates the application of the resulting methodologies to actual wind energy operational systems. The collaborative nature of this research and industrial involvement brings industrial perspective to the universities and is training our next-generation workforce in the new energy economy. The system-level concepts and methodologies, once demonstrated in wind energy applications, can go beyond and be applied to other power production systems, as well as automobile systems, aerospace systems, and marine systems.