Abstract
There are different monitoring procedures in wind farms with two main objectives: (i) to improve energy production by the capability of the national electrical network and (ii) to reduce the stooped hours due to preventive and or corrective maintenance activities. In this sense, different sensors are employed to sample in real-time the working conditions of equipment, the electrical production and the weather conditions. Despite this, just the anemometer measurement can be related to the more important errors of interruption of power regulation and anemometer errors. Both errors are related to gusty winds and contribute to more than 33% of the cost of a wind farm. The present paper reports some mathematical relations between weather and maintenance but there are no extreme values of each variable that let us predict a near failure and its corresponding loss of working hours. To achieve this, statistical analysis identifies the relation between weather variables and errors and different models are obtained. What is more, due to the difficulty and economic implications involving the implementation of complex algorithms and techniques of artificial intelligence, it is still a challenge to optimize this process. Finally, the obtained results show a particular case study that can be extrapolated to other wind farms after different case studies to adjust the model to different weather regions, and serve as a useful tool for weather maintenance.
Highlights
In 1981, the world’s first wind farm in the United States was launched
The application of the maintenance based on the condition seeing the technical and economic advantages that brings the implementation of this technique in wind farms [3]
We can make a description of the wind farm, find the errors defined by the maintenance personnel and, on the other hand, enumerate the various data mining techniques necessary to develop this research work
Summary
In 1981, the world’s first wind farm in the United States was launched From this milestone to the present day, the main pursued objectives, together with the technological progress of the equipment, are the increase in reliability, reduction of costs and, greater profitability in the production of wind energy. In this line, it is worth highlighting some scientific research that, in recent years, has tried to determine which is the best maintenance strategy to apply in wind farms, pursuing the aforementioned objectives. The application of the maintenance based on the condition seeing the technical and economic advantages that brings the implementation of this technique in wind farms [3]
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