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Yan Dong, Jian Zhang, Shaofeng Zhong and Yordan Garbatov
The study aims to develop a simplified strength assessment method for the preliminary structural design of a semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine platform. The method includes load cases with extreme wave load effects and a load case dominated...
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Mingsheng Chen, Lenan Yang, Xinghan Sun, Jin Pan, Kai Zhang, Lin Lin, Qihao Yun and Ziwen Chen
Evidence points to increasing the development of floating wind turbines to unlock the full potential of worldwide wind-energy generation. Barge-type floating wind turbines are of interest because of their shallow draft, structural simplicity, and moonpoo...
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Tianhui Fan, Jianhu Fang, Xinkuan Yan and Yuan Ma
The floating offshore wind turbine provides a feasible solution for the development of renewable ocean energy. However, the sizeable rotor diameter of the wind turbine results in large wind heeling moments and pitch amplitude. It will increase the struct...
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Sungjun Park and Joonmo Choung
Fully coupled integrated load analyses (ILAs) to evaluate not only the load response but also the structural integrity are required to design a floating offshore wind turbine, since there has been no firmly established approach for obtaining the structur...
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Hoi-Yi Tong, Tsung-Yueh Lin and Shiu-Wu Chau
This study predicted the motion response and power performance of a floating wind turbine system equipped with a semisubmersible Taida platform, an IEA 15 MW wind turbine, and a 3 × 2 mooring design in the Hsinchu offshore area in the Taiwan Strait. The ...
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Dennis Beier, Anja Schnepf, Sean Van Steel, Naiquan Ye and Muk Chen Ong
The use of floating offshore wind farms for electrical energy supply is expected to rise significantly over the coming years. Suspended inter-array power cables are a new design to connect floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) with shorter cable length...
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Arjun Srinivas, Bryson Robertson, Jonah Benjamin Gadasi, Barbara Gwynne Simpson, Pedro Lomónaco and Jesús María Blanco Ilzarbe
The worldwide effort to design and commission floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) is motivating the need for reliable numerical models that adequately represent their physical behavior under realistic sea states. However, properly representing the hyd...
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Wenxiang Yang, Yaozhen Han, Ronglin Ma, Mingdong Hou and Guang Yang
The floating platform motion of an offshore wind turbine system can exacerbate output power fluctuations and increase fatigue loads. This paper proposes a new scheme based on a fast second-order sliding mode (SOSM) control and an adaptive super-twisting ...
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Yushun Lian, Fan Zhong, Jinhai Zheng, Wenxing Chen, Gang Ma, Shan Wang and Solomon C. Yim
The influence of mooring systems with lines of different material on the dynamic response of a floating wind turbine is studied using a 5 MW OC4-DeepCwind semi-submersible wind turbine as a representative prototype in this study. Two types of mooring sys...
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Brendan Saunders and Ryozo Nagamune
Floating offshore wind farm control via real-time turbine repositioning has a potential in significantly enhancing the wind farm efficiency. Although the wind farm power capture increase by moving platforms with aerodynamic force has been verified in a r...
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Chenglin Zhang, Jincheng Xu, Jianjun Shan, Andong Liu, Mingchao Cui, Huang Liu, Chongwu Guan and Shuangyi Xie
To maximize the utilization of ocean resources, shorten the return period of investment and directly supply energy to the fishing cage, this paper performs a preliminary study for a state-of-the-art concept integrating a floating offshore wind turbine wi...
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Diane Scicluna, Claire De Marco Muscat-Fenech, Tonio Sant, Giuliano Vernengo and Tahsin Tezdogan
There exist vast areas of offshore wind resources with water depths greater than 100 m that require floating structures. This paper provides a detailed analysis on the hydrostatic stability characteristics of a novel floating wind turbine concept. The pr...
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Xiaojiang Guo, Yu Zhang, Jiatao Yan, Yiming Zhou, Shu Yan, Wei Shi and Xin Li
Wind energy in the deep-sea area is more abundant and the capacity of wind turbines can be made larger. Therefore, the research on deep-sea floating offshore wind turbines will be the primary strategy for wind energy exploitation in the future. The spar-...
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Izleena Md Iqbar, Masdi Muhammad, Syed Ihtsham Ul-Haq Gilani and Frank Adam
In this study, the viability of harnessing wind energy for offshore oil and gas (O&G) platforms as a micro-grid solution in low wind speed regions to power O&G platforms is explored. However, wind, as a renewable energy, is known to be highly var...
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Decao Yin, Elizabeth Passano, Fengjian Jiang, Halvor Lie, Jie Wu, Naiquan Ye, Svein Sævik and Bernt J. Leira
The motivation for this study is the fast development of floating offshore wind energy and the immature methodology and engineering practice related to predictions of vortex-induced motions (VIM). Benefiting from the oil and gas industry, in the past sev...
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Shiqi Liu, Zhenju Chuang, Kai Wang, Xin Li, Xin Chang and Lixun Hou
The full exploitation of offshore wind resources can essentially satisfy the massive energy demand. The realization and application of ultra-high-power offshore wind turbines are crucial to achieving full use of deep-sea wind energy and reducing the cost...
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Yiming Zhou, Yajun Ren, Wei Shi and Xin Li
Tension leg platform (TLP) is a cost-effective and high-performance support structure for floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) because of its small responses in heave, pitch, and roll with the constraint of the tendons. China, as the largest market of o...
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Jiahuan Lin, Huawei Duan, Baoming Xu, Yangwei Wang and Jun Zhang
The Froude-scaled offshore floating wind turbine model is inevitably affected by the Reynolds number effect, making the model unable to correctly reproduce the thrust performance of the reference wind turbine (RWT). To solve this problem, an Xfoil-Airfoi...
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Hongjian Zhang, Hao Wang, Xin Cai, Jiaojie Xie, Yazhou Wang and Ningchuan Zhang
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) still face many challenges in improving platform stability. A fully submersible FOWT platform with inclined side columns is designed to tackle the current technical bottleneck of the FOWT platform, combining the st...
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Shamsan Alsubal, Mohd S. Liew and Lim Eu Shawn
Floating offshore wind turbine foundations are based on platforms operated by the oil and gas industry. However, they are designed and optimized to meet the wind turbines? operating criteria. Although Malaysia is considered a low-wind-speed country, ther...
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