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| Reference Number | GR/L10987/01 | |
| Title | THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH TOOLS FOR OFFSHORE WINDFARM IMPLEMENTATION | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Renewable Energy Sources (Wind Energy) 100%; | |
| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 75%; Applied Research and Development 25%; |
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| Science and Technology Fields | ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 10%; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering) 50%; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering) 15%; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences) 25%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 75%; Systems Analysis related to energy R&D (Other Systems Analysis) 25%; |
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| Principal Investigator |
Professor H Patel No email address given School of Engineering Cranfield University |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 01 July 1996 | |
| End Date | 31 December 1999 | |
| Duration | 42 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £142,058 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Manufacturing | |
| Region | East of England | |
| Programme | Engineering | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Professor H Patel , School of Engineering, Cranfield University (100.000%) |
| Industrial Collaborator | Project Contact , Atkins (0.000%) |
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| Objectives | ||
| Abstract | This proposal is focused on development of the basic research tools which are needed to investigate offshore wind energy. A secondary objective is to apply the tools developed to a particularly novel and economically promising configuration. The offshore environment is now being seriously considered as a means of widening the implementation of wind energy. However, nearly all of the basic research and tool development has understandably concentrated on land based (rigid founded) turbines.Furthermore, where offshore related work has been undertaken it has usually focused on environmental rather than technical issues. The primary objective of this proposal is to address these general technical issues which are important when operating wind turbines on flexible and yawing (floating) foundations. Of course, a fixed foundation situation is just one special case of this and so the tools developed will be downgradable to this situation | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 04/06/07 | |
