Introducing a new system performance function to formulate reliability analysis problems of wind turbines

Abstract

Consideration of safety is one of the current requirements to design a new system that is often implemented by defining the system failure probability. Renewable energy systems (RESs) do have the same requirements when it comes to safety and reliability. When designing a wind turbine, as a RES, its reliability is of the highest importance. So, efficient reliability models are required to ensure the turbine is working safely to generate electricity. A new model is introduced in this paper by taking into account the wind speed and the wind angle as two effective factors. These two random variables are reported to follow the Gaussian and Weibull probability distributions, and so are employed to define a limit-state function for the turbines. This limit-state function, which is also called system performance function, will then be used to find out the system failure probability.