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Journal articles on the topic "Floating offshore wind turbines"

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Sclavounos, Paul. "Floating Offshore Wind Turbines." Marine Technology Society Journal 42, no. 2 (2008): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/002533208786829151.

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Wind 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 floating offshore wind farms is the next frontier. Vast sea areas with stronger and steadier winds are available for wind farm development and 5 MW wind turbine towers located 20 miles from the coastline are invisible. Current offshore wind turbin
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Pham, Thanh-Dam, Minh-Chau Dinh, Hak-Man Kim, and Thai-Thanh Nguyen. "Simplified Floating Wind Turbine for Real-Time Simulation of Large-Scale Floating Offshore Wind Farms." Energies 14, no. 15 (2021): 4571. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14154571.

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Floating offshore wind has received more attention due to its advantage of access to incredible wind resources over deep waters. Modeling of floating offshore wind farms is essential to evaluate their impacts on the electric power system, in which the floating offshore wind turbine should be adequately modeled for real-time simulation studies. This study proposes a simplified floating offshore wind turbine model, which is applicable for the real-time simulation of large-scale floating offshore wind farms. Two types of floating wind turbines are evaluated in this paper: the semi-submersible and
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Barooni, Mohammad, Turaj Ashuri, Deniz Velioglu Sogut, Stephen Wood, and Shiva Ghaderpour Taleghani. "Floating Offshore Wind Turbines: Current Status and Future Prospects." Energies 16, no. 1 (2022): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16010002.

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Offshore wind energy is a sustainable renewable energy source that is acquired by harnessing the force of the wind offshore, where the absence of obstructions allows the wind to travel at higher and more steady speeds. Offshore wind has recently grown in popularity because wind energy is more powerful offshore than on land. Prior to the development of floating structures, wind turbines could not be deployed in particularly deep or complicated seabed locations since they were dependent on fixed structures. With the advent of floating structures, which are moored to the seabed using flexible anc
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Ahmad, Aabas. "Load Reduction of Floating Wind Turbines Using Tuned Mass Dampers." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. 9 (2021): 1298–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.38178.

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Abstract: Offshore wind turbines have the potential to be an important part of the United States’ energy production profile in the coming years. In order to accomplish this wind integration, offshore wind turbines need to be made more reliable and cost efficient to be competitive with other sources of energy. To capitalize on high speed and highquality winds over deep water, floating platforms for offshore wind turbines have been developed, but they suffer from greatly increased loading. One method to reduce loadsin offshore wind turbines is the application of structural control techniques usu
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Roddier, Dominique, and Joshua Weinstein. "Floating Wind Turbines." Mechanical Engineering 132, no. 04 (2010): 28–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2010-apr-2.

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This article discusses the functioning of floating wind turbines. The engineering requirements for the design of floating offshore wind turbines are extensive. Wind turbine design tools usually consist of an aerodynamic model (for flow around the blades) coupled with a structural code. Aero-elastic models used in the design of fixed turbines calculate all the necessary loading parameters, from turbine thrust and power generation, to blade and tower deflections. The design of floating structures usually involves hydrodynamics tools such as WAMIT Inc.’s software for studying wave interactions wi
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Li, Jiawen, Jingyu Bian, Yuxiang Ma, and Yichen Jiang. "Impact of Typhoons on Floating Offshore Wind Turbines: A Case Study of Typhoon Mangkhut." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9, no. 5 (2021): 543. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse9050543.

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A typhoon is a restrictive factor in the development of floating wind power in China. However, the influences of multistage typhoon wind and waves on offshore wind turbines have not yet been studied. Based on Typhoon Mangkhut, in this study, the characteristics of the motion response and structural loads of an offshore wind turbine are investigated during the travel process. For this purpose, a framework is established and verified for investigating the typhoon-induced effects of offshore wind turbines, including a multistage typhoon wave field and a coupled dynamic model of offshore wind turb
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Pham, Thi Quynh Mai, Sungwoo Im, and Joonmo Choung. "Prospects and Economics of Offshore Wind Turbine Systems." Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology 35, no. 5 (2021): 382–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.26748/ksoe.2021.061.

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In recent years, floating offshore wind turbines have attracted more attention as a new renewable energy resource while bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines reach their limit of water depth. Various projects have been proposed with the rapid increase in installed floating wind power capacity, but the economic aspect remains as a biggest issue. To figure out sensible approaches for saving costs, a comparison analysis of the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) between floating and bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines was carried out. The LCOE was reviewed from a social perspective and a cost brea
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Maimon, Aurel Dan. "Floating offshore wind turbines - technology and potential." Analele Universităţii "Dunărea de Jos" din Galaţi. Fascicula XI, Construcţii navale/ Annals of "Dunărea de Jos" of Galati, Fascicle XI, Shipbuilding 43 (December 15, 2020): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.35219/annugalshipbuilding.2020.43.11.

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"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 installed further offshore and therefore on the one hand have little or no visual impact from the coast, and on the other hand to take advantage of more constant and stronger winds, thus increasing the production efficiency of electricity. They are assembled to port and then transported to site with an ordinary tug, which can also bring them ash
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Yang, Wenxian, Wenye Tian, Ole Hvalbye, Zhike Peng, Kexiang Wei, and Xinliang Tian. "Experimental Research for Stabilizing Offshore Floating Wind Turbines." Energies 12, no. 10 (2019): 1947. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12101947.

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Floating turbines are attracting increasing interest today. However, the power generation efficiency of a floating turbine is highly dependent on its motion stability in sea water. This issue is more marked, particularly when the floating turbines operate in relatively shallow water. In order to address this issue, a new concept motion stabilizer is studied in this paper. It is a completely passive device consisting of a number of heave plates. The plates are connected to the foundation of the floating wind turbine via structural arms. Since the heave plates are completely, rather than partial
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Raisanen, Jack H., Stig Sundman, and Troy Raisanen. "Unmoored: a free-floating wind turbine invention and autonomous open-ocean wind farm concept." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2362, no. 1 (2022): 012032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2362/1/012032.

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This paper contributes to emerging deep offshore wind literature by presenting the design for a novel free-floating offshore wind turbine for deep water use. The wind turbine uses one large underwater propeller to maintain its position and move as needed, while two small propellers turn the unit. This allows access to areas of high energy production potential in the open ocean out of reach to contemporary floating wind turbines, which are anchored to the seabed. An autonomous ocean-based wind farm concept is also presented. Together, the semi-autonomous wind turbines form a floating wind farm
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