With single elements weighing up to hundreds of tonnes and lifted to heights of 100 meters, offshore wind turbines can pose risks to personnel, assets, and the environment during installation and maintenance interventions. ...

Offshore wind turbine reliability, one of the industry's biggest sources of uncertainty, is the focus of the present paper. Specifically the impact of uncertain component failure distributions at constant failure rates has ...

This study investigates the viability of localising job roles in the oil and gas industry and whether job role localisation can reduce staffing costs. The principal barrier to job role localisation is high standards required ...

As a consequence of the gradually expanding aviation network, civil aircrafts are occupying an increasingly high proportion of the transport industry. Air transport now dominates the intercity rapid transit, long-distance ...

This work investigates the deoxygenation reaction during the decomposition of anisole (methoxy-rich model compound of lignin) over bi-functional catalyst. The bi-functional catalyst consisted of a single metal loaded on ...

The Subsea blowout preventer (BOP) which is latched to a subsea wellhead is one of several barriers in the well to prevent kicks and blowouts and it is the most important and critical equipment, as it becomes the last ...

With single components weighing up to hundreds of tonnes and lifted to heights of approximately 100 m, offshore wind turbines can pose risks to personnel, assets, and the environment during installation and maintenance ...

This paper compares the three state-of-the-art algorithms when applied to a real-world case of the wind energy sector. Optimum locations are suggested for a wind farm by considering only Round 3 zones around the UK. The ...

The non-isothermal drying behavior and kinetics of human feces (HF) were investigated by means of thermogravimetric analysis to provide data for designing a drying unit operation. The effect of heating rate and blending ...

The need to exploit enhanced wind resources far offshore as well as in deep waters requires the use of floating support structures to become economically viable. The conventional three-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine ...