OWF design life

The design life—or (economic) lifetime—of the off-shore wind farm. Note that this could be longer than the design life of the individual turbines, as turbine replacments can be foreseen.

type	real
unit	year

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downtime due to waiting list in steady state
downtime during preparations for failures of type j in steady state
downtime during work in progress for failures of type j in steady state
equivalent availability factor
lifetime number of preventive maintenance actions
lifetime O&M cost
LPC
number of operational turbines during the steady state
number of storms during lifetime of wind farm
total steady state time
total time of access vessel rental per year
total time that lifting equipment is in the wind farm per year

Describes 1

OWF structure

Input to 1

Zaaijer maintenance model

Notes

Should we consider design life extension?

Contributed by

E.R.G. Quaeghebeur (TU Delft), S. Sanchez Perez Moreno (TU Delft)

Cite the database: Quaeghebeur, E., Sanchez Perez-Moreno, S., and Zaaijer, M. B.: WESgraph: a graph database for the wind farm domain, Wind Energ. Sci., 5, 259–284, 2020. doi:10.5194/wes-5-259-2020

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