Professor James Carroll

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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Personal statement

I am a Reader and former Strathclyde Chancellor’s Fellow in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering. I obtained my PhD in Wind Energy Maintenance Modelling and Turbine Reliability from the EPSRC Wind Energy Systems CDT, hosted at the University of Strathclyde. Following my PhD I was awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize to research wind turbine component failure and remaining useful life prediction. I continue to carry out research in both the areas of my PhD and Post Doc, as well as the area of novel wind turbine concept development. 
Before my time at the University of Starthclyde I worked for a wind turbine developer in Germany and a wind turbine manufacturer and operator in both Germany and Denmark. My research is driven and made possible by close links to a number of leading wind turbine developers, manufacturers and operators. 

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Publications

Daylight considerations for offshore wind operations and maintenance
Donnelly Orla, Carroll James
Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 2875 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2875/1/012018
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
Modelled cost reductions for the X-rotor offshore wind turbine
Devoy McAuliffe F, Anderson F, Carroll J, Murphy J
Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 2875 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2875/1/012003
The impact of LIDAR‐assisted pitch control on floating offshore wind operational expenditure
Russell Andrew J, McMorland Jade, Collu Maurizio, McDonald Alasdair S, Thies Philipp R, Keane Aidan, Quayle Alexander R, McMillan David, Carroll James, Coraddu Andrea
Wind Energy Vol 27, pp. 1450-1461 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2951
O&M-aware techno-economic assessment for floating offshore wind farms : a geospatial evaluation off the North Sea and the Iberian Peninsula
Centeno-Telleria Manu, Yue Hong, Carroll James, Aizpurua Jose I, Penalba Markel
Applied Energy Vol 371 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.123684
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

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Research Interests

My research focuses on the wind energy area, both onshore and offshore. I have a particular interest in:

- 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

- Novel wind turbine concept development

Professional Activities

Wind Energy Science Conference 2019
Keynote/plenary speaker
2019

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Projects

BLOG-H (using a Battolyser to produce LOw cost Green Hydrogen)
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator)
01-Dec-2022 - 31-May-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-May-2022 - 31-Oct-2022
WindEurope Digitalisation Project
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator) Infield, David (Co-investigator) Leithead, Bill (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Dec-2023
A hybrid and scalable digital twin for intelligent direct drive powertrain condition monitoring JC (Supergen)
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator)
01-May-2021 - 30-Jun-2022
Offshore Wind Power to Battolyser Economic Research
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator)
26-Apr-2021 - 02-May-2022
Reliability analysis, diagnosis and prognosis of direct drive and medium speed generators (New Investigator)
Carroll, James (Principal Investigator)
01-Mar-2021 - 29-Feb-2024

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Professor James Carroll
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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