Descripción del proyecto
Mantenimiento inteligente de los parques eólicos marinos
La Unión Europea es líder mundial en parques eólicos marinos, sector en rápido crecimiento, y ha contribuido significativamente a desarrollar la energía eólica mediante ambiciosas políticas e inversiones. Para aumentar la producción anual de energía eólica marina, el proyecto WATEREYE, financiado con fondos europeos, desarrollará una solución integral que permitirá a los operadores de los parques eólicos predecir con precisión las necesidades de futuras estrategias de mantenimiento. El proyecto viene motivado por las limitaciones actuales de la eficiencia de la operación y el mantenimiento (OM) de los parques eólicos marinos. La solución de WATEREYE aspira a reducir los costes de OM, que pueden representar hasta el 30 % del coste nivelado de la electricidad, mediante un control y una monitorización precisa de la salud estructural de los parques eólicos marinos. A través del despliegue de sistemas de supervisión novedosos, esta solución se centrará en predecir la tasa de degradación de las estructuras marítimas por corrosión.
Objetivo
Operation & Maintenance (O&M) costs are the main cost driver in offshore energy due to the difficult accessibility to the WTs, but also due to the environmental conditions. O&M costs can account for up to 30% of the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) and sensing & monitoring systems could help attain the expected fall to 70 EUR/MWh by 2030.
The highest criticality (in €/kWh) in offshore wind is caused by structural failure, that mainly occurs due to corrosion processes non-adequately neither predicted nor monitored. For that reason, it is crucial to implement new monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis and control tools into the offshore wind farms (WFs) to enable Wind Farm Operators (WFOs) to take predictive smart O&M decisions fully considering structural components real and future status.
WATEREYE aims to develop an integral solution that will allow to WFOs a 4% reduction of OPEX, accurately predicting the need for future maintenance strategy and increasing the offshore wind annual energy production. To this end, WATEREYE will:
1/ develop a monitoring system capable of remotely estimating the corrosion level in exact WT locations (tower, splash-zone, tower-platform junction) as a supporting tool for predictive maintenance to considerably reduce the O&M costs and reduce the risk for operation failures; New Ultrasound corrosion sensors (ad-hoc, low-cost, high accuracy, fast-response, non-invasive) will be developed, as well as high efficient and robust wireless communications specifically conceived for offshore WTs hard communicating environment. Besides, a novel drone-based mobile platform to move one mobile sensor inside the WT tower will be developed.
2/ develop enhanced prediction models by analysing the acquired data in novel ways (semantic models);
3/ develop WT & WF control algorithms with accurate consideration of the structural health, giving operators freedom to choose the best balance between energy production, protective control, and predictive maintenance.
Ámbito científico
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Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-LC-SC3-2019-RES-TwoStages
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
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