Abstract
The chapter deals with the basic concepts of installation, operation and maintenance of offshore renewable energy systems. Whilst focus is given to the offshore wind industry, the extension to ocean energy (wave and tidal) offers a wider perspective on the major issues concerning the installation and maintenance. A reliability-based approach has been adopted for the analysis of the failures, providing an overview about the most common functional decomposition methodologies as well as logistic requirements for the different operations at the various stages of the lifetime of an offshore renewable project. The economic modelling of the operations, based on strategies for their planning, briefly completes the chapter.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Renewable Energy from the Oceans |
| Publisher | Institution of Engineering and Technology |
| Pages | 397-424 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781785617669 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2019 |
Keywords
- Economic modelling
- Failure analysis
- Failure analysis
- Functional decomposition methodologies
- Logistic requirements
- Logistics
- Maintenance and reliability
- Maintenance engineering
- Ocean energy
- Offshore installations
- Offshore renewable energy systems
- Offshore renewables installation
- Offshore renewables maintenance
- Offshore renewables operation
- Offshore wind industry
- Other structures
- Planning strategies
- Plant engineering, maintenance and safety
- Power generation economics
- Power generation planning
- Power generation reliability
- Power system management, operation and economics
- Power system planning and layout
- Public utilities
- Reliability
- Reliability-based approach
- Renewable energy sources
- Tidal energy
- Tidal power stations
- Tidal power stations and plants
- Wave energy
- Wave power
- Wave power plants
- Wind power plants
- Wind power plants
