Marine Renewable Energy

FLOWRBI

#JIP 
With FLOWRBI JIP, BV and Principia will bring together operators, engineering companies and inspection contractors with the objective to develop a methodology for the design and follow-up of a monitoring and inspection plan for offshore wind farms in order to control of environmental impact and operating costs, while monitoring and maintaining acceptable operational risk levels and reduce insurance costs.

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OC7

#JIP 
TOWIN JIP aims to reduce the cost of towing floating offshore wind turbines—primarily semi-submersibles, with possible consideration of spars—by safely reducing conservatism in operations, such as increasing towing speed, reducing bollard pull, minimizing tugboat use, and expanding weather windows.

OC7

#JIP #MRE
OC7 is a research project managed by NREL. It is a new iteration following the Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration, Continued, with Correlation, and unCertainty (OC6) project. It aims to improve the modelling of hydrodynamic viscous loads for floating offshore wind platforms to validate the accuracy of load predictions (especially aerodynamic loads) in a wind farm, with a specific focus on the influence of the floater flexibility.

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CIGRE

CIGRE working group has the objective to build common guidelines to ensure that mechanical performance and mechanical limits of submarine power cables are established and verified consistently across the industry. 

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OPTIFOWT

#JIP #MooringIntegrity
OptiFOWT is a JIP aiming to streamline the mooring and floater design phase of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) with a methodology to estimate short-term responses. Bureau Veritas will carry out sensitivity studies on floater and mooring configurations, as well as developing a guidance note to advise on a reliable design methodology.

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FOW COMITTEE PROJECT IN SOUTH KOREA

#MRE#UserGroup
The FOW Committee gathers together around 40 entities, including shipyards, classification societies, power companies and government research institutes.

DIMPACT+

DIMPACT+ objectives are to develop new tools to improve the design of floating offshore wind turbines by better integrating loads due to wave breaking

SCALEWIND

The objective of Scalewind JiP is to establish validated procedures, models and datasets for the numerical and experimental modelling of the integrated FOWT response. Main points of attention are structural flexibility and the turbine controller. Parameters of interest are the platform motions and accelerations, ultimate and fatigue loads in the tower, floater and mooring system, and the electrical power output. These procedures in turn allow for safe and efficient designs of large-scale FOWT platforms.

HYROC

Through detailed hydrodynamic analysis and structural response evaluations, JIP HYROC aims to provide insights into vortex-induced vibration (VIV) responses of cables, as well as the cable protection system at the seabed level of offshore foundations.

MUTANC2

The objective is to study the technical and economic viability of shared anchoring systems (anchors and mooring lines) for offshore farms. 
 

OPERA

#Software #MRE
OPERA is our in-house independent simulation tool for Marine Operations including floating wind turbines, currently under development. It will take into account the full coupling extent between hydrodynamic and mooring loads, aerodynamic loads, the controller and any slender body element deformation.