TY - JOUR
T1 - Hydrodynamic analysis of floating offshore wind turbine
AU - Chodnekar, Yeshwant Prabhu
AU - Mandal, Sukomal
AU - Balakrishna Rao, K.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a Grant ( 06132MFDS370 ) from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Ever increasing population of India demands high production of electrical energy which puts immense pressure on our limited stock of non-renewable resources of energy and makes us dependent over imports from foreign countries. But slowly we are shifting our focus towards renewable resources of energy. The present study focuses on the innovative concept of renewable offshore wind energy to fill the void of high energy demand. The hydrodynamic analysis of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) is carried out using hydrodynamic analysis module of ANSYS Workbench 14.5 on a Tension Leg Platform (TLP) floater concept which supports 5MW baseline wind turbine. The responses of the platform are investigated by changing the diameter, draft and ballast weight of FOWT under operational wave and wind conditions by considering the combined effect incident at 0o and 45o. It is observed that by maintaining low reserve buoyancy and high metacentric height for TLP FOWT, the mooring forces in cables and the platform draft can be lowered without compromising the responses.
AB - Ever increasing population of India demands high production of electrical energy which puts immense pressure on our limited stock of non-renewable resources of energy and makes us dependent over imports from foreign countries. But slowly we are shifting our focus towards renewable resources of energy. The present study focuses on the innovative concept of renewable offshore wind energy to fill the void of high energy demand. The hydrodynamic analysis of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) is carried out using hydrodynamic analysis module of ANSYS Workbench 14.5 on a Tension Leg Platform (TLP) floater concept which supports 5MW baseline wind turbine. The responses of the platform are investigated by changing the diameter, draft and ballast weight of FOWT under operational wave and wind conditions by considering the combined effect incident at 0o and 45o. It is observed that by maintaining low reserve buoyancy and high metacentric height for TLP FOWT, the mooring forces in cables and the platform draft can be lowered without compromising the responses.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.258
DO - 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.258
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84941208391
SN - 1877-7058
VL - 116
SP - 4
EP - 11
JO - Procedia Engineering
JF - Procedia Engineering
IS - 1
T2 - 5th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts, APAC 2009
Y2 - 13 October 2009 through 16 October 2009
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