Professor James Carroll

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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James Carroll is a Professor and former Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering (EEE). James is the Director and PI of the Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures CDT (2019 to 2027), he is the Strathclyde Director and PI of the new EnerHy Wind and Hydrogen CDT (2024-2032), and is the Co-Lead of the Wind Energy and Control (WEC) Group. WEC is one of the largest university based wind energy research groups in the UK with 8 academics and over 35 researches.  

Professor Carroll joined EEE and the Wind Energy and Control Group in 2012 as a Wind Energy Systems CDT PhD student, he secured a Chancellor’s Fellowship in 2018 and was promoted to Professor in 2023. His core research areas include wind turbine reliability/maintenance modelling, novel wind turbine development and data driven failure prediction of wind turbine components. 

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Publications

The silver lining : utilising curtailment in offshore wind as an opportunity for operation and maintenance
Donnelly Orla, Carroll James
Ocean Engineering Vol 330 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121190
On confidence interval-based anomaly detection approach for temperature predictions of wind turbine drivetrains to assist in lifetime extension assessment
Tartt Kelly, Kazemi-Amiri Abbas Mehrad, Nejad Amir R, Carroll James
Forschung im Ingenieurwesen Vol 89 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10010-025-00791-5
Effect of blade inclination angle for straight-bladed vertical-axis wind turbines
Morgan Laurence, Amiri Abbas Kazemi, Leithead William, Carroll James
Wind Energy Science Vol 10, pp. 381-399 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-381-2025
Assessing heavy maintenance alternatives for floating offshore wind farms : towing vs. onsite replacement strategies
Centeno-Telleria Manu, Yue Hong, Carrol James, Penalba Markel, Aizpurua Jose I
Applied Energy Vol 377 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124437
Life extension of wind turbine drivetrains by means of SCADA data : case study of generator bearings in an onshore wind farm
Tartt Kelly, Kazemi-Amiri Abbas Mehrad, Nejad Amir R, Carroll James, McDonald Alasdair
Results in Engineering Vol 24 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2024.102921
Application of systems safety principles for O&M of floating offshore wind
Rowell D, McMillan D, Carroll J
Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 2875 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2875/1/012023

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Research Interests

Professor Carroll's research focuses on the wind energy area, both onshore and offshore. He has a particular interest in:

- Novel wind turbine concept development

- Wind turbine reliability

- O&M cost modelling

- Wind Turbine cost of energy modelling

- The impact of turbine drive train selection on reliability and cost

- Wind turbine component condition monitoring

- Wind turbine component failure prediction

- Wind turbine component remaining useful life prediction based on data driven machine learning approaches and physical modelling approaches

- SCADA and Vibration data analytics

Professional Activities

Wind Energy Science Conference 2019
Keynote/plenary speaker
2019

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Projects

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Engineering Hydrogen Net Zero EnerHy | Samiei, Mojgan
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Anaya-Lara, Olimpo (Co-investigator) Samiei, Mojgan (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Engineering Hydrogen Net Zero EnerHy
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2032
BLOG-H (using a Battolyser to produce LOw cost Green Hydrogen)
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2024
Predictive maintenance for offshore wind turbines
Atkinson, Robert (Principal Investigator) Andonovic, Ivan (Co-investigator) Cardona Amengual, Javier (Co-investigator) Carroll, James (Co-investigator) McMillan, David (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022
WindEurope Digitalisation Project
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Infield, David (Co-investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
A hybrid and scalable digital twin for intelligent direct drive powertrain condition monitoring JC (Supergen)
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022

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Professor James Carroll
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Email: j.carroll@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted