Publications

2011

Journal papers

Parker, M A., Ng, C, Ran, L, Fault-tolerant control for a modular generator–converter scheme for direct-drive wind turbines, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 58(1), January 2011, pp 305-315

Wenxian Yang, Richard Court, Peter Tavner, and Chris Crabtree, Bivariate Empirical Mode Decomposition and its contribution to wind turbine condition monitoring, Jounal of Sound and Vibration, 330(15), 2011, pp 3766-3782

Yang, S, Bryant, A, Mawby, P, Xiang, D, Ran, L, Tavner, P J, An industry-based survey of reliability in power electronic converters, IEEE Trans, Industry Applications, 47(3), May/June 2011: 1441-1451

Conference papers

Zhang, C., Jamshidi, M., Barnes, S., Cauchi-Savona, S., Rouse, J., Bradley, R., Withers, P., Hogg, P., Investigation of the fatigue failure mechanisms for stitched and unstitched unidirectional composites, 18th International Conference for Composite Materials, Jeju, South Korea, 2011.

Crabtree, C. J., Tavner, P. J., Condition Monitoring Algorithm Suitable for Wind Turbine Use, IET Renewable Power Generation 2011, Edinburgh, UK, Sept. 2011.

Chen, B., Qiu, Y. N., Feng, Y., Tavner, P. J., Song, W., Wind Turbine SCADA Alarm Pattern Recognition, IET Renewable Power Generation 2011, Edinburgh, UK, Sept. 2011.

Djurovic, S., Crabtree, C. J. , Smith, A. C., Tavner, P. J., Influence of DFIG Rotor Fault Severity on Stator Current and Power Spectral Content, European Wind Energy Association, Brussels, March 2011.

Dutton, G., Blade modelling, lifetime assessment, and health monitoring, Institute of Physics (IOP) meeting on Wind Energy - challenges for materials, mechanics and surface science, 28 October 2010

Feng, Y., Qiu, Y., Crabtree, C., Long, H., and Tavner, P., Use of SCADA and CMS signals for failure detection and diagnosis of a wind turbine gearbox, EWEA2011, Scientific Track, Oral Presentaion, Brussels, Belgium, Mar 2011.

Faulstich, S., Lyding, P., Tavner, P. J., Effects of wind speed on wind turbine availability. EWEA2011, Brussels, March 2011

Long, H., Wu, J., Matthew, F., Tavner, P. J., Fatigue analysis of wind turbine gearbox bearings using SCADA data and Miner’s rule, EWEA2011, Brussels, March 2011

Peter Tavner, Yingning Qiu, Athanasios Korogiannos and Yanhui Feng, The correlation between wind turbine turbulence and pitch failure, EWEA2011, Scientific Track, Oral Presentaion, Brussels, Belgium, Mar 2011

Qiu, Y, Richardson, P, Feng, Y, Tavner, PJ, and Erdos, G, SCADA alarm analysis for improving wind turbine reliability, EWEA2011, Brussels, March 2011

Soler-Bientz R and Watson SJ, Study of the UK offshore wind resource: Preliminary results from the first stage of the Supergen Wind 2 project: Resource Assessment, EWEA2011, Brussels, March 2011.

Watson S., Kennedy I., and Gray C., The Application of Physics of Failure Modelling to Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring, EWEA2011, Brussels, March 2011, PP 309-312.

Wylie SJ and Watson SJ, A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study of wind flow around a model forest: Comparison of turbulent closure schemes and varying leaf area density, EWEA2011, Scientific Track, Brusulls, March 2011, PP 194-199.

2010

Journal papers

Arabian-Hoseynabadi H, Oraee H, and Tavner PJ, (2010) Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for wind turbines, Intertanational Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Vol 32, No 7, pp 817-824.

Arabian-Hoseynabadi H, Oraee H, and Tavner PJ, (2010) Wind turbine productivity considering electrical subassembly reliability, Renewable Energy, Vol 35, Issue 1, pp 190-197.

Dutton AG, Bonnet PA, Hogg P and Lleong YL, (2010) Novel materials and modelling for large wind turbine blades,Journal of Power and Energy, Vol. 224, No 2, pp 203-210. Top downloaded article in 2010 in the Journal of Power and Energy

Feng Y, Tavner PJ and Long H, (2010) Early Experiences with UK Round 1 Offshore Wind Farms, accepted Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Energy, 2010.

Faulstich S, Hahn B and Tavner PJ, (2010) Wind turbine downtime and its importance for offshore deployment, Wind Energy, doi: 10.1002/we.421.

Tavner, P J, Faulstich, S., Hahn, B., van Bussel, G J W, Reliability & availability of wind turbine electrical & electronic components, EPE Journal, 20(4), December 2010

Watson SJ, Xiang BJ, Yang W, Tavner PJ, Crabtree CJ. (2010). Condition Monitoring of the Power Output of Wind Turbine Generators using Wavelets. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp.715-721. doi:10.1109/TEC.2010.2040083

Yang, WX, Tavner, PJ, Crabtree, CJ and Wilkinson M (2010). Cost-effective condition monitoring for wind turbines, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Vol. 57, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 263-271, ISSN: 0278-0046, DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2032202

Yang, S, Xiang, D, Bryant, A, Mawby, P, Ran, L,Tavner, P J,  Condition monitoring for device reliability in power electronic converters: A Review, IEEE Transactions Power Electronics, 25(11), Nov, 2010: 2734-2752

Conference papers

Chatzopoulos A, Assessing the energy capture capability of a MW scale wind turbine during operation below rated operation. EWEC 2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010. 

Chatzopoulos A and Leithead WE, Reducing tower fatigue loads by a co-ordinated control of the Supergen 2MW exemplar wind turbine, Torque 2010: The Science of Making Torque From Wind, Proceedings of 3rd EAWE Conference, p667-674, 28-30 June, Heraklion, Greece.

Crabtree C, Feng Y and Tavner PJ, Detecting incipient gearbox failure in wind turbines: a new signal analysis method for on-line condition monitoring, EWEC2010 Scientific Track, Oral Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010.

Crabtree C, Djurovic S, Tavner PJ, and Smith AC, Condition monitoring of a wind turbine DFIG by current or power analysis. PEMD2010, Brighton, April 2010. (Presentation)

Djurovic S and Williamson S, Investigation of the impact of speed-ripple and inertia on the steady-state current spectrum of a DFIG with unbalanced rotor, PEMD2010, Brighton, April 2010.

Djurovic S and Williamson S, Influence of Supply Harmonic Voltages on DFIG Stator Current and Power Specturm, ICEM 2010, Sep 2010, Rome Italy.

Dutton G, Clarke M and Bonnet P, Modelling of static and fatigue failure in wind turbine blades using a parametric blade model. EWEC2010, Technical Track, Oral Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010.

Firth and Long H, A design software tool for conceptual design of wind turbine gearboxes, EWEC2010, Technical Track, Poster Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010.

Gao F, McGovern , Mingham CG, Ilic S and Causon DM. Numerical and experimental investigation of turbulent flow around a vertical circular cylinder. Proc. of the 20th (2010) Int. Offshore and Polar Engineering Conf. (Beijing, China), Vol.3, p639-643. ISBN 978-1–880653–77-7.

Kritharas PP and Watson SJ, Improved long term wind speed prognosis using advanced statistical methods, EWEC 2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010.

Smolders, Long H, Feng Y and Tavner PJ, Reliability analysis and prediction of wind turbine gearboxes. EWEC2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010.

Soler-Bientz R, Watson SJ and Infield DG, Preliminary results of a statistical wind resources analysis in offshore conditions in the Gulf of Mexico, EWEC 2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010.

Tavner PJ, Gindele, Faulstich, Hahn, Whittle and Greenwood, Study of effects of weather & location on wind turbine failure rates. EWEC2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010.

Tavner PJ, Higgins, Arabian, Long H and Feng Y, Use of the FMEA to determine wind turbine availability. EWEC2010, Technical Track, Oral Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010.

Wilkinson M, Hendriks B, Spinato F, Gomez, Bulacio, Roca, Tavner PJ, Feng Y and Long H, Methodology and results of the Reliawind reliability field study, EWEC 2010, Scientific Track, Oral Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010.

Wylie S and Watson S, Comparison of different turbulence closure schemes used for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling of a wind flow around a forest simulated in a wind tunnel. EWEC 2010, Scientific Track, Poster Presentation. Warsaw Poland, Apr 2010.

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