Mustafa Albara

Master of science Mustafa Albara will Monday March 13, 2023, at 12:15 hold his disputas for the PhD degree in Science. The title of his thesis is: 

"Risk and Resilience Assessment of Wind Farms Performance in Cold Climate Regions"

Summary:

Wind energy conversion systems such as wind farms are growing in numbers and capacity all over the globe. The onshore wind energy generation sector witnessed an increase of approximately 144 TWh during 2020, with onshore wind farms capacity addition of 108 GW, which is twice as much as the added capacity during 2019 (IEA, 2021). This staggering increase in capacity imposes higher needs for improved methodologies and expertise, in measuring the performance of wind farms and improving it. Cold climate regions are known to have an appealing potential for attracting wind farms installation and investments. However, the weather conditions in the cold climate regions impose risks and challenges to the operation and maintenance of wind turbines, and to the workers at the wind farms.

Evaluation Committee 

• Professor Uday Kummar, Luleå University of Technology (1. Opponent)
• Dr. Afsib Abbasi, Lead Data Scientist at Skyfri Technologies, Oslo (2. Opponent)
• Associate Professor Hassan Khawaja, ITS, UiT (internal member, and leader of the commitee)

Supervisors 

• Professor Abbas Barabadi, Department of Technology and Safety, UiT (main supervisor)
• Professor Yngve Birkelund, Department of Physics and Technology, UiT

The Disputas will be led by Professor Javad Barabady of the Department of Technology and Safety at UiT.

Streaming site

The disputas and trial lecture will be streamed from these sites:

Disputas (12:15 - 15:00)

Trial Lecture (10:15 - 11:00)

Thesis

The thesis is available through Munin.