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Control of floating wind turbines
2012 American Control Conference (ACC), 2012Wind energy is a clean, renewable and extremely fast growing form of electricity generation and the potential to install turbines deep offshore is only just being realised. The vast majority of commercial offshore turbines have foundations on the seabed thereby restricting the depths at which offshore farms can be installed. In an attempt to facilitate
Gijs J. van der Veen +2 more
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Experimental Modelling of a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine
2018 23rd International Conference on Methods & Models in Automation & Robotics (MMAR), 2018Leading wind turbine manufacturers are increasinglylooking at the possibilities of sending offshore wind turbinesto deep seas. This can be done using a Floating Offshore WindTurbine (FOWT). Therefore FOWT is an interesting and timelyfield of study. The aim of the paper is to use System Identification(SI) to make a data-driven-based model for the FOWT ...
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Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, 2012
Far-offshore wind turbines are attractive in view of harnessing high-speed winds and reducing impact on population. When the sea is hundreds of metres deep, drilling wind turbines down to the seabed is too expensive. Today’s bottom-mounted foundations could be replaced by floating platforms, which can minimise the lateral wave-loads acting on the wind ...
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Far-offshore wind turbines are attractive in view of harnessing high-speed winds and reducing impact on population. When the sea is hundreds of metres deep, drilling wind turbines down to the seabed is too expensive. Today’s bottom-mounted foundations could be replaced by floating platforms, which can minimise the lateral wave-loads acting on the wind ...
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Structural control of floating wind turbines
Mechatronics, 2011Abstract The application of control techniques to offshore wind turbines has the potential to significantly improve the structural response, and thus reliability, of these systems. Passive and active control is investigated for a floating barge-type wind turbine.
Matthew A. Lackner, Mario A. Rotea
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Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
Marine Technology Society Journal, 2008Wind is a rapidly growing renewable energy source, increasing at an annual rate of 30%, with the vast majority of wind power generated from onshore wind farms. The growth of these facilities, however, is limited by the lack of inexpensive land near major population centers and the visual impact caused by large wind turbines.Wind energy generated from ...
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Study of a Floating Foundation for Wind Turbines
Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 2012Offshore wind farms are currently located predominantly in shallow water as it is possible to cost effectively install bottom fixed offshore turbines. Where shallow water sites are not available, floating offshore turbines could be a better solution than bottom fixed turbines. Currently three main concepts are promoted for the design of a floating wind
Sébastien Gueydon, Sam Weller
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A Review of Floating Wind Turbine Controllers
2013A review of the most important contributions made towards designing and testing controllers for floating wind turbines is presented in this chapter. These controllers range in complexity, description detail, simulation results and testing styles, and floating platform structure.
H. Namik, K. Stol
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Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
2014In this chapter, a perspective of floating offshore wind technology, applied concepts, and related statistics are given. Floating wind turbines are recently appearing in the offshore wind market. There is no wind park based on floating structures until now. However, some wind parks are planned to be constructed in near future.
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Floating wind turbine motion assessment
OCEANS'11 MTS/IEEE KONA, 2011In April and May 2011 model tests have been conducted in the Offshore wave basin of MARIN to calibrate and validate simulation codes for floating wind turbines. This paper reports on a numerical study of an offshore floating wind turbine (OFWT) and about the comparison of simulation results with experiments at model scale.
Sebastien Gueydon, null Wei Xu
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