Dynamic effects of anchor positional tolerance on tension moored floating wind turbine


Autoria(s): Wright, Christopher; Pakrashi, Vikram; Murphy, Jimmy
Data(s)

20/10/2016

20/10/2016

2016

Resumo

For water depths greater than 60m floating wind turbines will become the most economical option for generating offshore wind energy. Tension mooring stabilised units are one type of platform being considered by the offshore wind energy industry. The complex mooring arrangement used by this type of platform means that the dynamics are greatly effected by offsets in the positioning of the anchors. This paper examines the issue of tendon anchor position tolerances. The dynamic effects of three positional tolerances are analysed in survival state using the time domain FASTLink. The severe impact of worst case anchor positional offsets on platform and turbine survivability is shown. The worst anchor misposition combinations are highlighted and should be strongly avoided. Novel methods to mitigate this issue are presented.

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Wright, C., Pakrashi, V. and Murphy, J. (2016) 'Dynamic effects of anchor positional tolerance on tension moored floating wind turbine', Journal of Physics: Conference Series 753(9), 092019 (9pp). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/753/9/092019

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9

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1742-6588

http://hdl.handle.net/10468/3197

10.1088/1742-6596/753/9/092019

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

092019

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en

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IOP Publishing

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© 2016, the Authors. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Palavras-Chave #Anchor #Offset #Position #Wind energy #Wind turbine
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Article (peer-reviewed)