To achieve that ambitious target, apart from novel challenges regarding installation, operation, maintenance and logistics, the preliminary platform and turbine controller design, as well as early experimental design assessments, are key elements in the overall design process. The current key challenge in the FOWT industry and research is on designing economic floating systems that can compete with fixed-bottom offshore turbines in terms of levelized cost of energy.
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Projects focused on numerical tool development and code comparison such as the international OC3, OC4 and OC5 projects (IEA Wind Tasks 23 and 30) and European research projects such as UpWind have shown the tools' capability to sufficiently numerically represent the physics of FOWT systems. Hywind, WindFloat and Fukushima-FORWARD Phase 1 prototypes have demonstrated the technical feasibility of multi-megawatt floating wind turbines. In summary, the exemplary application of the reduced design and testing methodology for AFOSP confirms that it represents a viable procedure during pre-design of floating offshore wind turbine platforms.įloating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) represent a promising technology to enable economic offshore wind electricity generation in deep waters beyond 50 m. Extreme and fatigue loads and cost analysis of the AFOSP system confirm the viability of the presented design process. Results from the experimental tests compared to numerical simulations are presented and analysed and show very good agreement for relevant basic dynamic platform properties. The exemplary design and testing methodology for a monolithic concrete spar platform as performed within the European KIC AFOSP project is presented. In this contribution, a brief review of current floating offshore wind turbine platform pre-design and scaled testing methodologies is provided, with a focus on their ability to accommodate the coupled dynamic behaviour of floating offshore wind systems. The preliminary platform design, as well as early experimental design assessments, are critical elements in the overall design process. The current key challenge in the floating offshore wind turbine industry and research is on designing economic floating systems that can compete with fixed-bottom offshore turbines in terms of levelized cost of energy.
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