Water-hydraulic power transmission for offshore wind farms

The current state of the art of offshore wind turbine power transmission technology is expensive, heavy and maintenance intensive. The Delft Offshore Turbine project considers a radically new concept for power transmission in an offshore wind farm: using seawater as power transmission medium. For this project, small scale experiments have been...

MicroDOT: Design of a 10W prototype of the Delft offshore turbine

The Delft Offshore Turbine (DOT) project is a research project within DUWIND. The main objective of the project is to reduce the costs of offshore wind energy through technical solutions. A defining characteristic of the DOT concept is the fluid power transmission. The next step for the DOT concept is to make a full preliminary design. A helpful...