Predictive maintenance planning of offshore wind farms – PhD position connected to the research centre FME Northwind
This PhD project is part of the newly established FME NorthWind (Norwegian Research Centre on Wind Energy) that has as aim to bring forward outstanding research and innovation to create jobs and grow exports, and to facilitate the sustainable development of wind power. The Centre is led by SINTEF, with research partners NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), UiO (University of Oslo), NINA (The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research), and NGI (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute). The Centre involves more than 40 national and international industrial partners that, together with the research partners, comprise a world leading consortium for the development of a sustainable wind energy future.
This PhD position is connected to work-package 2: “Marine operations and Logistics” within the FME NorthWind, and will focus on effective logistics planning to reduce the cost of maintaining offshore wind farms, while at the same time maximizing the energy output. The goal is to develop a methodology that combines probability distributions on failures, data on vessel capabilities and logistics planning to create optimal maintenance schedules. To develop this methodology new exact and/or heuristic solution methods must be developed, based e.g. on existing methods from mixed integer stochastic programming.
Duties of the position
Qualification requirements
In addition, the following qualifications will contribute positively to the evaluation of the applicant:
Recent graduates, or applicants who are in the final stage of their Master’s program, are encouraged to apply. Such an applicant may be offered the position under the condition that the diploma will show satisfactory final term results.
Please read more here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/203316
Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management
IØT has challenging and inspiring educational programmes and research projects in the cross-disciplinary field of technology management. Through its programmes of study, IØT educates candidates with a solid technological basis in methodology and theory on how to develop and manage technologically based organisations.
Participation in, and development of, research projects in close co-operation with Norwegian industry, the department is also developing models, tools and methods for how to manage Norwegian industry.