New Approaches to Through-Life Asset Management in the Maritime Industry

Norden, Christian; Hribernik, Karl; Ghrairi, Zied; Fuggini, Clemente

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-12111-6_24

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“…Second, there was little in the public domain about how a company, industry or sector which is immature in TES can benchmark and design an appropriate implementation plan for delivering TES in their industry. For example, the likes of [11][12][13] mentioned earlier have only focused on identifying challenges and new opportunities and business models when applying TES in their respective sectors. Although, the authors acknowledge the works of the likes of [5,7,9,16,17] who have dealt with the design of functional or total care products and the services which need to be delivered whist these products are operational.…”

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“…Relevant to the scope of this research article, antecedent literature have researched into identifying and understanding the challenges and opportunities of TES in different sectors such as Nuclear [11], Maritime [12] and Automotive [13]. For example, Norden et al [12] proposed a new service contract business model for through-life asset management in the maritime industry.…”

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“…For example, Norden et al [12] proposed a new service contract business model for through-life asset management in the maritime industry. This model provides a holistic service package which is customisable and offered for a fixed time based fee.…”

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Through-life engineering services of wind turbines

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IntroductionRenewable and alternative energy technologies have developed from very small scale R&D projects to commercial technologies, contributing to the global energy and power generation mix [1]. Of significance is the power generation from wind energy which is now a very popular source of clean energy, having had an exponential growth in the last two decades (see Fig. 1) and currently generating about 2.5% of global electricity supply [2]. This growth has been forecasted to continue, as the amount of global electricity that could be supplied by wind in 2020 is estimated to be between 8 and 12% [2].As the typical WT is designed for at least a 20 year life time, there is an essential need for through-life support in order to sustain the continuous operation of the WTs at a minimum lifecycle cost. However, designing, delivering and most especially, supporting WTs are not without challenges, one of which is as a result of the nature of their operating environments (offshore locations in particular). Also, as governments reduce or pull out from subsidies and tax credits, the industry is faced with a challenge of cost reduction (both on the product design and manufacture, and the O&M costs) so as to be as competitive as the conventional and nuclear power sectors with relatively low cost of energy.This paper is in two parts: the first half explores the original topic of TES in the wind industry, presented by the authors in an earlier publication [1], by identifying the state-of-the-art and current challenges of TES in the wind industry. Also, a forward looking perspective is taken by identifying possible opportunities which could address the challenges and meet future TES needs and requirements in the industry. The second half presents a case study on WT gearbox through-life support, which takes further previous work by the authors (see [1]) by going through the key steps of identifying the TES requirements and needs and its implementation. A focus will be placed on how TES can be applied to offshore WFs since the impacts of poorly understood and executed inservice phase on O&M costs are far greater in offshore applications, and furthermore offshore wind is still in its nascent stages [4].The main contributions of this paper is as follows:This paper closes the gaps in literature in the topic of TES in the wind industry. As at the time of writing this paper, there was little literature in the research domain that dealt with the topic which is of importance for the wind industry. The past decade has seen exponential yearly growth in installed capacity wind energy power generation. As a result, wind farm (WF) projects have evolved from small scale isolated installations into complex utility scale power generation systems comprising of arrays of large wind turbines (WTs), which are designed to operate in harsh environments. However, this has increased the need for through-life engineering service (TES) for WTs especially in offshore applications, where the operations and maintenance (O&M) becomes more complicated as a...

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“…In addition, data gathered through condition monitoring can be used by the supplier to schedule maintenance tasks according to the actual condition of the equipment (i.e., to execute condition-based maintenance). This may reduce the risks and increase the benefits in terms of cost, availability, and reliability [30,32]. Besides, monitoring information can provide valuable operational feedback to the supplier, which is currently missing in the maritime sector.…”

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