Estimation of the optimal wind turbine size for offshore wind farms: Focusing on drive train configurations in a multi-disciplinary optimization

The development of a wind farm is a highly sophisticated task, whereby many stakeholders are involved and several unique disciplines come together to form a whole. Commonly, the unique disciplines are optimized individually which leads to sub-optimal windfarm designs. Therefore, it is of great importance that an interdisciplinary approach is...

Upscaling the TetraSpar: Large-scale floating offshore wind turbines design methodology and modelling

During the past decade, the offshore wind energy industry evolved to bigger turbines, going into deeper waters and farther offshore. As bottom-fixed wind turbines are limited to shallow water depths, floating wind structures are the next frontier to unlock the vast potential of wind energy. Despite many techno-economic challenges, several full...

Estimation of the Optimum Wind Turbine Size for two Different Offshore Sites and Wind Farm Rated Powers

Large turbines are a synonym of more energy harvested from the wind, but also of increment in the costs. This dilemma has led many researchers on the field of wind energy to wonder about the optimum size for wind turbines concerning the lowest cost of energy. This project studies the optimum turbine size for offshore applications through the...

Multidisciplinary design optimization of large wind turbines: Technical, economic, and design challenges

Wind energy has experienced a continuous cost reduction in the last decades. A popular cost reduction technique is to increase the rated power of the wind turbine by making it larger. However, it is not clear whether further upscaling of the existing wind turbines beyond the 5–7MW range is technically feasible and economically attractive. To...

Beyond Classical Upscaling: Integrated Aeroservoelastic Design and Optimization of Large Offshore Wind Turbines

Issues related to environmental concern and fossil fuel exhaustion has made wind energy the most widely accepted renewable energy resource. However, there are still several challenges to be solved such as the integrated design of wind turbines, aeroelastic response and stability prediction, grid integration, offshore resource assessment and...