Mayorkinos Papaelias is a Reader in NDT and Condition Monitoring in the School of Metallogy and Materials at the University of Birmingham, UK. Dr Papaelias leads the research activity in Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Condition Monitoring at the Birmingham Railway Centre for Research and Education and conducts research in structural health condition monitoring of wind turbine towers, and advanced condition monitoring of wind turbine gearboxes and rotating machinery. He served as a technical consultant to TWI, ENGITEC, Innovative Technology and Science Ltd, and Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade. He is editor of two books on fault detection and condition monitoring, and has contributed chapters to books in fault detection and rail inspection. Mayorkinos is chairman of the Education Committee of the International Society for Condition Monitoring of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing.
1. Introduction2. Significance of NDT and Condition Monitoring for Renewable Energy Industry3. Trends in maintenance strategies for renewable energy assets4. NDT and condition monitoring for wind turbines5. Online evaluation of wind turbine power converters6. Wind turbine Gearboxes7. Onshore vs. Offshore Wind Turbines8. Condition Monitoring and inspection strategies for tidal turbines9. Reliable Wave Energy Devices10. Inspection and Condition Monitoring for Concentrated Solar Power Plants11. Remote Condition Monitoring for Photovoltaic Systems12. Inspection and Condition Monitoring Requirements of Biofuel and Biomass Power Plants13. General NDT Techniques14. Application of Acoustic Emission as an Effective Condition Monitoring Technique15. Vibration Analysis Overview16. Value of Long Range Ultrasonics17. ROV applications18. Effective automated control19. SCADA Systems and Effective Data Management20. Future Developments in NDT and Condition Monitoring
