Dr David McMillan
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Publications
- On modelling insights for emerging engineering problems : a case study on the impact of climate uncertainty on the operational performance of offshore wind farms
- Dinwoodie Iain, McMillan David, Lazakis Iraklis, Dalgic Yalcin, Revie Matthew
- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability Vol 232, pp. 524-532 (2018)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1748006X17751493
- Availability, operation & maintenance costs of offshore wind turbines with different drive train configurations
- Carroll James, McDonald Alasdair, Dinwoodie Iain, McMillan David, Revie Matthew, Lazakis Iraklis
- Wind Energy Vol 20, pp. 361-378 (2017)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/we.2011
- Development of an O&M tool for short term decision making applied to offshore wind farms
- Dawid Rafael, McMillan David, Revie Matthew
- WindEurope Summit 2016 (2016)
- Time series semi-Markov decision process with variable costs for maintenance planning
- Dawid R, McMillan D, Revie M
- European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2016, pp. 183 (2016)
- Towards improved forecasting for offshore wind turbine O&M transfers
- Mills P R, Stephen B, McMillan D, Lazakis I
- Renewable Energies Offshore II Renewable Energies Offshore (2016)
- Forecasting for day-ahead offshore maintenance scheduling under uncertainty
- Browell J, Dinwoodie I, McMillan D
- Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability (ESREL) Conference, 2016 European Safety and Reliability Conference 2016, pp. 1-8 (2016)
Teaching
- wind power forecasting
- distribution system load flow
- small group tutorials
Research interests
+ Reliability Analysis
+ Decision Analysis
+ Probabilistic Modelling
+ Applied Statistics
Applications
+ Wind Energy
+ Asset Management
+ Energy Policy
+ Energy Security
Other areas of Interest
- Reliability Engineering
- Reliability Centred Maintenance
- Wind Turbine Safety Systems
- Operation and Maintenance Modelling
- Decision Analysis
- Probabilistic Modelling
Professional activities
- Wind Energy (Journal)
- Editorial board member
- 2020
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (Journal)
- Editorial board member
- 2020
- Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council (SOWEC) (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2020
- Science of Making Torque from Wind (TORQUE) 2020 (Event)
- Editorial board member
- 2020
- Power Available Signal Accuracy
- Contributor
- 10/10/2019
- Global Offshore Wind
- Participant
- 26/6/2019
Projects
- Datalab / ORACLES-X Stage 2
- McMillan, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2020
- Offshore Access Innovation Placement with EdF Renewables (Teeside) [£5,500]
- McMillan, David (Principal Investigator) Gilbert, Ciaran (Researcher)
- Offshore Access EPSRC National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) Innovation Placements
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2019
- SCORE: Satellite Climate Observation for Offshore Renewable Energy Cost Reduction (Supergen ORE Flex R1)
- McMillan, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2020
- KTP-Miros Scotland
- McMillan, David (Principal Investigator) Hart, Edward John (Co-investigator) KOUKOURA, Sofia (Co-investigator)
- 16-Jan-2019 - 15-Jan-2021
- TIC LCPE MET-ocean access sensor location study (WIND-09)
- McMillan, David (Principal Investigator) Browell, Jethro (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2019
- Balance of Plant / Offshore Transmission Availability & Reliability Improvement
- Warnock, John (Principal Investigator) McMillan, David (Principal Investigator)
- Collaboration with OREC and University of Manchester investigating the impact of the current offshore transmission regime on the functional reliability of offshore wind transmission assets. Methods being used draw from engineering and management sciences, such as, Bayesian methodology and quantification of anecdotal evidence.
- 06-Jan-2019 - 22-Jan-2019
Address
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University Centre