THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH TOOLS FOR OFFSHORE WINDFARM IMPLEMENTATION

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)

Basic and strategic applied research
Applied Research and Development

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences)

Not Cross-cutting
Systems Analysis related to energy R&D (Other Systems Analysis)

Professor H Patel
School of Engineering
Cranfield University

Standard

EPSRC

01 July 1996

31 December 1999

42 months

£142,058

Systems engineering

East of England

Mechanical Engineering Responsive -- Engineering

Professor H Patel, School of Engineering, Cranfield University

Project Contact, University of Padua (Padova), Italy
Project Contact, Atkins

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

04/06/07