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Centeno-Telleria, Manu and Yue, Hong and Carroll, James and Penalba, Markel and Ignacio Aizpurua, Jose (2024) Impact of operations and maintenance on the energy production of floating offshore wind farms across the North Sea and the Iberian Peninsula. Renewable Energy, 224. 120217. ISSN 0960-1481

Morgan, Laurence and Leithead, William and Carroll, James (2024) On the use of secondary rotors for vertical axis wind turbine power take off. Wind Energy. ISSN 1095-4244

Rowell, David and McMillan, David and Carroll, James (2024) Offshore wind H&S : a review and analysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 189 (Part A). 113928. ISSN 1879-0690

Li, Mingxin and Carroll, James and Ahmad, Ahmad Sukri and Hasan, Nor Shahida and Zolkiffly, M. Zaid B. and Falope, Gboyega Bishop and Sabil, Khalik Mohamad (2023) Potential of offshore wind energy in Malaysia : an investigation into wind and bathymetry conditions and site selection. Energies, 17 (1). 65. ISSN 1996-1073

McMorland, J. and Collu, M. and McMillan, D. and Carroll, J. and Coraddu, A. (2023) Opportunistic maintenance for offshore wind : a review and proposal of future framework. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 184. 113571. ISSN 1879-0690

Li, Mingxin and Jiang, Xiaoli and Carroll, James and Negenborn, Rudy R. (2023) A closed-loop maintenance strategy for offshore wind farms : incorporating dynamic wind farm states and uncertainty-awareness in decision-making. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 184. 113535. ISSN 1879-0690

Rowell, David and Jenkins, Brian and Carroll, James and McMillan, David (2022) How does the accessibility of floating wind farm sites compare to existing fixed bottom sites? Energies, 15 (23). 8946. ISSN 1996-1073

Saeed, Kaiser and McMorland, Jade and Collu, Maurizio and Coraddu, Andrea and Carroll, James and McMillan, David (2022) Adaptations of offshore wind operation and maintenance models for floating wind. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2362 (1). 012036. ISSN 1742-6596

Jenkins, Brian and Belton, Ian and Carroll, James and McMillan, David (2022) Estimating the major replacement rates in next-generation offshore wind turbines using structured expert elicitation. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2362 (1). 012020. ISSN 1742-6588

McMorland, Jade and Flannigan, Callum and Carroll, James and Collu, Maurizio and McMillan, David and Leithead, William and Coraddu, Andrea (2022) A review of operations and maintenance modelling with considerations for novel wind turbine concepts. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 165. 112581. ISSN 1879-0690

Li, Mingxin and Jiang, Xiaoli and Carroll, James and Negenborn, Rudy R. (2022) A multi-objective maintenance strategy optimization framework for offshore wind farms considering uncertainty. Applied Energy, 321. 119284. ISSN 0306-2619

Jenkins, Brian and Squires, David and Barton, John and Strickland, Dani and Wijayantha, K. G. U. and Carroll, James and Wilson, Jonathan and Brenton, Matthew and Thomson, Murray (2022) Techno-economic analysis of low carbon hydrogen production from offshore wind using battolyser technology. Energies, 15 (16). e5796. 5796. ISSN 1996-1073

McMorland, J. and Collu, M. and McMillan, D. and Carroll, J. (2022) Operation and maintenance for floating wind turbines : a review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 163. 112499. ISSN 1879-0690

Turnbull, Alan and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair (2022) A comparative analysis on the variability of temperature thresholds through time for wind turbine generators using normal behaviour modelling. Energies, 15 (14). 5298. ISSN 1996-1073

Tartt, K and Kazemi-Amiri, A and Nejad, A R and McDonald, A and Carroll, J (2022) Development of a vulnerability map of wind turbine power converters. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2265 (3). 032052. ISSN 1742-6588

McMorland, Jade and Pirrie, Paul and Collu, Maurizio and McMillan, David and Carroll, James and Coraddu, Andrea and Jamieson, Peter (2022) Operation and maintenance modelling for multi rotor systems : bottlenecks in operations. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2265 (4). 042059. ISSN 1742-6588

Flannigan, Callum and Carroll, James and Leithead, William (2022) Operations expenditure modelling of the X-Rotor offshore wind turbine concept. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2265 (3). 032054. ISSN 1742-6588

Turnbull, Alan and Mckinnon, Conor and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair (2022) On the development of offshore wind turbine technology : an assessment of reliability rates and fault detection methods in a changing market. Energies, 15 (9). 3180. ISSN 1996-1073

R. Nejad, Amir and Keller, Jonathan and Guo, Yi and Sheng, Shawn and Polinder, Henk and Watson, Simon and Dong, Jianning and Qin, Zian and Ebrahimi, Amir and Schelenz, Ralf and Guzmán, Francisco Gutiérrez and Cornel, Daniel and Golafshan, Reza and Jacobs, Georg and Blockmans, Bart and Bosmans, Jelle and Pluymers, Bert and Carroll, James and Koukoura, Sofia and Hart, Edward and McDonald, Alasdair and Natarajan, Anand and Torsvik, Jone and Moghadam, Farid K. and Daems, Pieter-Jan and Verstraeten, Timothy and Peeters, Cédric and Helsen, Jan (2022) Wind turbine drivetrains : state-of-the-art technologies and future development trends. Wind Energy Science, 7 (1). pp. 387-411. ISSN 2366-7451

McKinnon, C and Tartt, K and Carroll, J and McDonald, A and Plumley, C and Ferguson, D (2022) Comparison of novel SCADA data cleaning technique for wind turbine electric pitch system. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2151 (1). 012005. ISSN 1742-6588

McKinnon, Conor and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and Koukoura, Sofia and Plumley, Charlie (2021) Investigation of isolation forest for wind turbine pitch system condition monitoring using SCADA data. Energies, 14 (20). 6601. ISSN 1996-1073

Jenkins, Brian and Prothero, Arran and Collu, Maurizio and Carroll, James and McMillan, David and McDonald, Alasdair (2021) Limiting wave conditions for the safe maintenance of floating wind turbines. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2018 (1). 012023. ISSN 1742-6588

de Mello, Elisha and Kampolis, Georgios and Hart, Edward and Hickey, Daryl and Dinwoodie, Iain and Carroll, James and Dwyer-Joyce, Rob and Boateng, Ampea (2021) Data driven case study of a wind turbine main-bearing failure. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2018. 012011. ISSN 1742-6596

Turnbull, Alan and Carroll, James (2021) Cost benefit of implementing advanced monitoring and predictive maintenance strategies for offshore wind farms. Energies, 14 (16). 4922. ISSN 1996-1073

Corley, Becky and Koukoura, Sofia and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair (2021) Combination of thermal modelling and machine learning approaches for fault detection in wind turbine gearboxes. Energies, 14 (5). 1375. ISSN 1996-1073

Dhiman, Harsh S. and Deb, Dipankar and Carroll, James and Muresan, Vlad and Unguresan, Mihaela-Ligia (2020) Wind turbine gearbox condition monitoring based on class of support vector regression models and residual analysis. Sensors, 20 (23). 6742. ISSN 1424-8220

Turnbull, Alan and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair (2020) Combining SCADA and vibration data into a single anomaly detection model to predict wind turbine component failure. Wind Energy, 24 (3). pp. 197-211. ISSN 1095-4244

McKinnon, Conor and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and Koukoura, Sofia and Infield, David and Soraghan, Conaill (2020) Comparison of new anomaly detection technique for wind turbine condition monitoring using gearbox SCADA data. Energies, 13 (19). 5152. ISSN 1996-1073

Corley, B. and Carroll, J. and Mcdonald, A. (2020) Fault detection of wind turbine gearbox using thermal network modelling and SCADA data. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1618. 022042. ISSN 1742-6588

Koukoura, Sofia and Peeters, Cédric and Helsen, Jan and Carroll, James (2020) Investigating parallel multi-step vibration processing pipelines for planetary stage fault detection in wind turbine drivetrains. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1618 (2). 022054. ISSN 1742-6588

Mckinnon, Conor and Turnbull, Alan and Koukoura, Sofia and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair (2020) Effect of time history on normal behaviour modelling using SCADA data to predict wind turbine failures. Energies, 13 (18). 4745. ISSN 1996-1073

Hart, Edward and Clarke, Benjamin and Nicholas, Gary and Kazemi Amiri, Abbas and Stirling, James and Carroll, James and Dwyer-Joyce, Rob and McDonald, Alasdair and Long, Hui (2020) A review of wind turbine main-bearings : design, operation, modelling, damage mechanisms and fault detection. Wind Energy Science, 5 (1). pp. 105-124. ISSN 2366-7451

Turnbull, Alan and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and Koukoura, Sofia (2019) Prediction of wind turbine generator failure using two-stage cluster-classification methodology. Wind Energy, 22 (11). pp. 1593-1602. ISSN 1095-4244

Leithead, William and Camciuc, Arthur and Kazemi Amiri, Abbas and Carroll, James (2019) The X-rotor offshore wind turbine concept. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1356. 012031. ISSN 1742-6596

Corley, Becky and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair (2019) Thermal modelling of a small wind turbine gearbox for condition monitoring. The Journal of Engineering, 2019 (18). pp. 5335-5339. ISSN 2051-3305

Koukoura, Sofia and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair (2019) On the use of AI based vibration condition monitoring of wind turbine gearboxes. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1222 (1). 012045. ISSN 1742-6588

Carroll, James and Koukoura, Sofia and McDonald, Alasdair and Weiss, Stephan and McArthur, Stephen (2018) Wind turbine gearbox failure and remaining useful life prediction using machine learning techniques. Wind Energy. ISSN 1095-4244

Koukoura, S and Carroll, J and McDonald, A and Weiss, S (2018) Wind turbine gearbox planet bearing failure prediction using vibration data. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1104. 012016. ISSN 1742-6596

Pandit, Ravi Kumar and Infield, David and Carroll, James (2018) Incorporating air density into a Gaussian process wind turbine power curve model for improving fitting accuracy. Wind Energy. pp. 1-14. ISSN 1095-4244

Koukoura, Sofia and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair (2018) An insight into wind turbine planet bearing fault prediction using SCADA data. Proceedings of the European Conference of the PHM Society, 4 (1).

Artigao, Estefania and Koukoura, Sofia and Honrubia-Escribano, Andrés and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and Gómez-Lázaro, Emilio (2018) Current signature and vibration analyses to diagnose an in-service wind turbine drive train. Energies, 11 (4). ISSN 1996-1073

Liniger, Jesper and Soltani, Mohsen and Pedersen, Henrik C. and Carroll, James and Sepehri, Nariman (2017) Reliability based design of fluid power pitch systems for wind turbines. Wind Energy, 20 (6). pp. 1097-1110. ISSN 1095-4244

Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and Dinwoodie, Iain and McMillan, David and Revie, Matthew and Lazakis, Iraklis (2017) Availability, operation & maintenance costs of offshore wind turbines with different drive train configurations. Wind Energy, 20 (2). pp. 361-378. ISSN 1095-4244

Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and McMillan, David (2016) Failure rate, repair time and unscheduled O&M cost analysis of offshore wind turbines. Wind Energy, 19 (6). pp. 1107-1119. ISSN 1095-4244

Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and McMillan, David (2015) Reliability comparison of wind turbines with DFIG and PMG drive trains. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 30 (2). pp. 663-670. ISSN 0885-8969

Book Section

Koukoura, Sofia and Carroll, James and Weiss, Stepha and McDonald, Alasdair; (2017) Wind turbine gearbox vibration signal signature and fault development through time. In: 25th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2017. IEEE, GRC, pp. 1380-1384. ISBN 9780992862671

McDonald, A. and Carroll, J.; Ng, Chong and Ran, Li, eds. (2016) Design of generators for offshore wind turbines. In: Offshore Wind Farms. Woodhead Publishing series in energy . Woodhead Publishing, Amsterdam, pp. 159-192. ISBN 9780081007792

Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and Barrera Martin, Oswaldo and McMillan, David and Bakhshi, Roozbeh; (2015) Offshore wind turbine sub-assembly failure rates through time. In: Scientific Proceedings. European Wind Energy Association, FRA, pp. 112-116. ISBN 9782930670003

Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and McMillan, David; (2015) Offshore cost of energy for DFIG PRC turbines vs. PMG FRC turbines. In: International Conference on Renewable Power Generation (RPG 2015). IET, CHN. ISBN 9781785610400

Conference or Workshop Item

Mckinnon, C. and Carroll, J. and McDonald, A. and Koukoura, S. and Soraghan, C. (2019) Comparison of anomaly detection techniques for wind turbine gearbox SCADA data. In: Wind Energy Science Conference 2019, 2019-06-17 - 2019-06-20, University College Cork.

Corley, B. and Carroll, J. and McDonald, A. S. (2019) Wind turbine gearbox condition monitoring : experimental validation of a thermal network model. In: Wind Energy Science Conference 2019, 2019-06-17 - 2019-06-20, University College Cork.

Mckinnon, Conor and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and Koukoura, Sofia (2019) Machine learning in wind turbine O&M. In: Future Wind and Marine, 2019-03-07, University of Strathclyde.

Turnbull, A. and Carroll, J. and Koukoura, S. and McDonald, A. (2018) Prediction of wind turbine generator bearing failure through analysis of high frequency vibration data and the application of support vector machine algorithms. In: The 7th International Conference on Renewable Power Generation, 2018-08-26 - 2018-09-27, DTU, Lyngby.

Ferguson, D and McDonald, A and Carroll, J and Lee, H (2018) Standardisation of wind turbine SCADA data for gearbox fault detection. In: The 7th International Conference on Renewable Power Generation, 2018-08-26 - 2018-09-27, DTU, Lyngby.

Corley, B. and Carroll, J. and McDonald, A.S. (2018) Thermal modelling of a small wind turbine gearbox for condition monitoring. In: The 7th International Conference on Renewable Power Generation (RPG2018), 2018-09-26 - 2018-09-27, DTU, Lyngby.

Koukoura, Sofia and Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair (2017) Wind turbine intelligent gear fault identification. In: Annual Conference of the PHM Society, 2017-10-02 - 2017-10-05.

Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and McMillan, David and Stehly, Tyler and Mone, Christopher and Maples, Ben (2015) Cost of energy for offshore wind turbines with different drive train types. In: EWEA 2015 Annual Event, 2015-11-17 - 2015-11-20, Paris expo Porte de Versailles.

Kourkoulis, Velissarios and Carroll, James and Leithead, William (2015) Effect of site conditions on offshore wind turbine failures. In: IET Renewable Power Generation (RPG), 2015-10-17 - 2015-10-18.

Carroll, James and May, Allan and McDonald, Alasdair and McMillan, David (2015) Availability improvements from condition monitoring systems and performance based maintenance contracts. In: European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) Offshore 2015, 2015-03-10 - 2015-06-12, Bella Center.

Carroll, James and Dinwoodie, Iain and McDonald, Alasdair and McMillan, David (2015) Quantifying O&M savings and availability improvements from wind turbine design for maintenance techniques. In: European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) Offshore 2015, 2015-03-10 - 2015-06-12, Bella Center.

Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and McMillan, David and Feuchtwang, Julian (2014) Offshore availability for wind turbines with a hydraulic drive train. In: 3rd Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG), 2014-09-24 - 2014-09-25.

Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and McMillan, David (2014) Reliability comparison of DFIG drive train configuration with PMG drive train configuration in the first 5 years of operation. In: 3rd Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG), 2014-09-24 - 2014-09-25.

Carroll, James and McDonald, Alasdair and Feuchtwang, Julian and McMillan, David (2014) Drivetrain availability in offshore wind turbines. In: European Wind Energy Association 2014 Annual Conference, 2014-03-10 - 2014-03-13.

Hart, Kerri and McDonald, Alasdair and Polinder, Henk and Corr, Edward Joseph and Carroll, James (2014) Improved cost energy comparison of permanent magnet generators for large offshore wind turbines. In: European Wind Energy Association 2014 Annual Conference, 2014-03-10 - 2014-03-13.

Report

Hart, Edward and Raby, Kaiya and Keller, Jonathan and Sheng, Shawn and Long, Hui and Carroll, James and Brasseur, James and Tough, Fraser (2023) Main Bearing Replacement and Damage − A Field Data Study on 15 Gigawatts of Wind Energy Capacity. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Washington, D.C..