Dr. D. (Donatella) Zappalá
Dr. D. (Donatella) Zappalá
Profiel
Expertise
My research interests lie in the areas of:
- Wind farm asset management, with a focus on reliability and operations and maintenance.
- Onshore/offshore wind farm condition monitoring for fault detection, diagnosis and prognosis.
- Experimental investigation of wind turbine drive train component faults.
- Novel sensor technologies and advanced signal processing algorithms.
- Wind farm operational performance analysis.
I am Editorial Board member of the Wind Energy journal, Associate Editor of the Energy Reports journal and Topic Editor for the Energies journal.
Biografie
I am a TT Assistant Professor in the Wind Energy section at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. I graduated in Environmental Engineering at Universita`di Perugia, Italy (2008). I then received the MSc in New and Renewable Energy at Durham University, UK (2010), where I also completed my PhD in wind turbine condition monitoring (2015), under the supervision of Professor Peter Tavner within the EPSRC SUPERGEN Wind Phase 2 project. Before joining TU Delft in June 2020, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University within the EPSRC SUPERGEN Wind Hub, a number of EPSRC IAA Knowledge Transfer Secondments projects and the ESPRC Prosperity Partnerships: A New Partnership in Offshore Wind.
Expertise
Publicaties
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2025
A hybrid Convolutional Autoencoder training algorithm for unsupervised bearing health indicator construction
Ali Eftekhari Milani / Donatella Zappalá / Simon J. Watson
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2024
Boosting field data using synthetic SCADA datasets for wind turbine condition monitoring
Ali Eftekhari Milani / Donatella Zappalá / Francesco Castellani / Simon Watson
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2023
A use-case-driven approach for demonstrating the added value of digitalisation in wind energy
S. Barber / A. M. Sempreviva / S. Sheng / D. Farren / D. Zappalá
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2023
Convolutional neural network framework for wind turbine electromechanical fault detection
Emilie Stone / Stefano Giani / Donatella Zappalá / Christopher Crabtree
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2022
2.11 - Wind Turbine Reliability - Maintenance Strategies
D. Zappalá / Peter J. Tavner
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Nevenwerkzaamheden
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2019-10-01 - 2024-12-30
Advisering/onderzoek en overig
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2024-01-01 - 2025-12-31
Advisering/onderzoek en overig
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2024-01-01 - 2025-12-31
Advisering/onderzoek en overig