LAPSE:2020.0684
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LAPSE:2020.0684
Identifying Health Status of Wind Turbines by Using Self Organizing Maps and Interpretation-Oriented Post-Processing Tools
June 23, 2020
Background: Identifying the health status of wind turbines becomes critical to reduce the impact of failures on generation costs (between 25⁻35%). This is a time-consuming task since a human expert has to explore turbines individually. Methods: To optimize this process, we present a strategy based on Self Organizing Maps, clustering and a further grouping of turbines based on the centroids of their SOM clusters, generating groups of turbines that have similar behavior for subsystem failure. The human expert can diagnose the wind farm health by the analysis of a small each group sample. By introducing post-processing tools like Class panel graphs and Traffic lights panels, the conceptualization of the clusters is enhanced, providing additional information of what kind of real scenarios the clusters point out contributing to a better diagnosis. Results: The proposed approach has been tested in real wind farms with different characteristics (number of wind turbines, manufacturers, power, type of sensors, ...) and compared with classical clustering. Conclusions: Experimental results show that the states healthy, unhealthy and intermediate have been detected. Besides, the operational modes identified for each wind turbine overcome those obtained with classical clustering techniques capturing the intrinsic stationarity of the data.
Keywords
clustering, data science, fault diagnosis, interpretation oriented tools, post- processing, Renewable and Sustainable Energy, self organizing maps (SOM), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition(SCADA) data, wind farms
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Blanco-M. A, Gibert K, Marti-Puig P, Cusidó J, Solé-Casals J. Identifying Health Status of Wind Turbines by Using Self Organizing Maps and Interpretation-Oriented Post-Processing Tools. (2020). LAPSE:2020.0684
Author Affiliations
Blanco-M. A: Data and Signal Processing Group, U Science Tech, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, 08500 Vic, Catalonia, Spain; Smartive Wind Turbine’s Diagnosis Solutions, 08204 Sabadell, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain [ORCID]
Gibert K: Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning Research group at Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center, UPC, 08034 Barcelona, [ORCID]
Marti-Puig P: Data and Signal Processing Group, U Science Tech, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, 08500 Vic, Catalonia, Spain [ORCID]
Cusidó J: Smartive Wind Turbine’s Diagnosis Solutions, 08204 Sabadell, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain [ORCID]
Solé-Casals J: Data and Signal Processing Group, U Science Tech, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, 08500 Vic, Catalonia, Spain [ORCID]
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Energies
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11
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4
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E723
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2018
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2018-03-22
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1996-1073
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