Remaining Useful Life Estimation of Hydrokinetic Turbine Blades Using Power Signal

Marine hydrokinetic (MHK) turbines extract renewable energy from harsh marine environments, where biofouling and corrosion acting on turbine blades will affect system performance and lead to progressively increasing damages. Thus, accurately estimating a blade's remaining useful life (RUL) is important to achieving condition-based maintenance to ensure secure and reliable operations of MHK turbines, and the reduced cost of hydrokinetic power. In...