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Overview
We have supported a major WTG OEM across their portfolio of floating wind projects, spanning a range of different site conditions, water depths, foundation concepts and turbine sizes.
Case study
Floating wind project development
We have supported a major WTG OEM across their portfolio of floating wind projects, spanning a range of different site conditions, water depths, foundation concepts and turbine sizes.
The services we have delivered include design basis development, coupled load analysis, control system tuning, modelling and simulation, certification, and data analysis. We have provided this support for over 7 years with activities spanning early engineering, commissioning, and operations.
Our support has been provided from site-specific pre-engineering, through certification and into commissioning, executing work focused on reaching a fully certifiable coupled design for manufacture and deployment. We have directly represented our project partners to other parties in regard to technical analysis, loads assessment, site condition review and certification support.
During Pre-Engineering, our support has included:
- Developing DLC tables based upon the OEM interpretation of the IEC standard used for type certification, site conditions, and input from the foundation designer about platform dynamics and platform specific cases;
- Developing and testing approaches for coupling the OEM aeroelastic code to the foundation model (both in OrcaFlex and in a Foundation Designer in house tool);
- Performing model validation to demonstrate that the integrated model accurately represents the key features of the foundation dynamics for analysing turbine loading;
- Performing sensitivity studies to justify DLC interpretation (PLF, wind/wave conditions, turbine operating points);
- Running coupled load analysis as part of an iterative design process;
- Engage with the Foundation Designers to interpret the results and motivate changes to site specific designs;
- Design, implement and test new control features for floating wind turbines;
- Engage with certifying bodies to justify the approaches used.