Research on wind turbine safety analysis: Failure analysis, reliability analysis, and risk assessment

Abstract

Wind power is an affordable, efficient, and abundant source of electricity. It is pollution‐free and cost‐competitive with energy from new coal‐ and gas‐fired power plants in many regions. The wind industry has been growing rapidly in recent years. The rapid development of wind power industry requires higher performance and reliability of equipment. Thus, safety problem is extremely important to large scale wind turbines, as make safety engineering become the focus of WTs R&D. Thus, relevant researches have gained increasing attention in the wind industry. Accordingly, this article reviews the basic analysis types and their corresponding applications in WTs system safety analysis, aiming to let more experts deeply understand the current research status and also provide some guidance for relevant researches. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 35: 1848–1861, 2016

Two-Dimensional Reconstruction of Heat Transfer in a Flat Flame Furnace through Computer-Based Tomography and Tunable-Diode-Laser Absorption Spectroscopy

“…Multiple pixels of the grid are processed and modified. Regarding the reconstruction process of the water vapor concentration of the flame furnace, the previously lagging With the method of rebuilding the temperature and then obtaining the results, the method was abandoned, and a new multiple iteration process was used to directly reconstruct the water vapor concentration and build the process [21]. The results obtained through this method are accurate and reliable.…”

Different functionalized chord and twist distributions in aerodynamic design of HAWTs

“…Nowadays because of several reasons such as scarcity of fossil fuels, air pollution, and utilization of renewable energies has been in priority for all countries. Wind energy can be considered as one of the most popular, affordable, and efficient renewable energies . Size of the turbines has grown significantly in the last 25 years.…”

Evaluation of Fatigue Crack Propagation of Gears Considering Uncertainties in Loading and Material Properties

“…Wind energy has been considered one of the most promising renewable energy sources due to its low environmental impact and high potential for cost reduction [1,2]. Optimistic estimations point out that by 2020 wind energy will be responsible for up to 12% of the global energy matrix, rising to 22% by 2030 [3].…”