Floating offshore wind turbines - technology and potential
The main purpose of this paper is to present a short review of the actual progress on the floating offshore wind turbines. Floating offshore wind turbines have several advantages: overcoming the depth constraint, floating offshore wind turbines can be ...
Aurel Dan Maimon
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Numerical Investigations of Wake Expansion in the Offshore Wind Farm Using a Large Eddy Simulation
Due to abundant wind resources and land saving, offshore wind farms have been vigorously developed worldwide. The wake of wind turbines is an important topic of offshore wind farms, in which the wake expansion is a key issue for the wake model and the ...
Mingqiu Liu, Zhichang Liang, Haixiao Liu
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Vibration Reduction Strategy for Offshore Wind Turbines
The operational environment of offshore wind turbines is much more complex than that of onshore wind turbines. Facing the persistent wind and wave forces, offshore wind turbines are prone to vibration problems, which are not conducive to their long-term ...
Haoming Liu +5 more
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Development Status and Prospects of Offshore Wind Farms and It’s Key Technology
In recent years, the development of offshore wind power industry is very rapid, the number of offshore wind farms is increasing and the scale is expanding. This paper first reviewed the operating wind farms, the characteristics of the main components and
XU Bin, XUE Shuai, GAO Houlei, PENG Fang
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On motion analysis and elastic response of floating offshore wind turbines [PDF]
Wind energy industry is expanded to offshore and deep water sites, primarily due to the stronger and more consistent wind fields. Floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) concepts involve new engineering and scientific challenges.
Hayatdavoodi, Masoud, Lamei, Azin
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Surface impacts of large offshore wind farms
Future offshore wind farms around the world will be built with wind turbines of size and capacity never seen before (with diameter and hub height exceeding 150 and 100 m, respectively, and rated power exceeding 10 MW).
Maryam Golbazi +2 more
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Foundations for offshore wind turbines
An important engineering challenge of today, and a vital one for the future, is to develop and harvest alternative sources of energy. This is a firm priority in the UK, with the government setting a target of 10% of electricity from renewable sources by 2010.
Byrne, B, Houlsby, G
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Typhoon Resistance Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines: A Review
A typhoon is a tropical cyclone in the western Pacific Ocean and the China seas. Typhoons are some of the most destructive natural disasters on Earth. In China, typhoons have had major impacts on the stability and structural integrity of offshore wind ...
Jiawen Li +3 more
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Availability, operation & maintenance costs of offshore wind turbines with different drive train configurations [PDF]
Different configurations of gearbox, generator and power converter exist for offshore wind turbines. This paper investigated the performance of four prominent drive train configurations over a range of sites distinguished by their distance to shore ...
Carroll, James +5 more
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Offshore wind power digital twin modeling system for intelligent operation and maintenance applications [PDF]
Offshore wind power operates in a complex and harsh environment, while turbines continue to develop in the direction of large capacity and scale. Therefore, offshore wind power increasingly needs to reduce the overall operation and maintenance costs and ...
Zhang Ernu +5 more
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