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Öhlschläger, Youri (author)
Changing the way of power production on a Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO)<br/>system by using renewable power can contribute to reducing an FPSO’s carbon footprint while operating. Bluewater Energy Services is interested in the use of a wind turbine placed on top of an<br/>FPSO, to power the FPSO’s internal electricity grid....
master thesis 2022
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Hageman, R.B. (author), van der Meulen, F.H. (author), Rouhan, A. (author), Kaminski, M.L. (author)
In order to obtain valuable information from an Hull Structure Monitoring system, a large data set and consistent analysis of that data is required. The monitoring requires significant efforts over multiple years and as a result, uncertainties obtained from in-service measurements are rarely published. Instead, researchers have to rely on...
journal article 2022
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van den Heuvel, Oscar (author)
Floating production units require to be permanently moored offshore. For shallow water field developments, typical designs include soft yoke mooring systems which is a single point mooring technology. Produced fluid is transported via a geostatic tower along the transfer hoses to the production unit. Single point mooring systems will weathervane...
master thesis 2020
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Donk, Rick (author)
Turret structures within FPSO's are subjected to a variety of repeated loads, due to the harsh environment they operate in during their service live, meaning that fatigue is a governing limit state in turret structural design. Turret structural components are connected by arc-welded joints which are considered particularly susceptible to fatigue...
master thesis 2019
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Pot, Hanna (author)
The rudders of moored FPSO’s are fixed in the center to avoid unwanted rudder motions. This is often done by mechanical locking of the rudder machine. Due to waves and current, the loads on the rudder are higher than expected, causing failure of the locking system. An empirical study is executed to predict the combined wave and current loads on...
master thesis 2018
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Dumans, Max (author)
Boskalis subsidiary Dockwise is the global market leader in heavy marine transport. Their fleet of over 20 semi-Submersible Heavy Transport Vessels (SHTV) is capable to carry the heaviest and largest structures. Until today the load or discharge operation of a floating body has only been performed in sheltered waters. Here, the influences of the...
master thesis 2017
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Koen, M. (author)
Floating Production, Storage & Offloading (FPSO) units are extensively utilized in remote offshore areas for deep water developments where a pipeline infrastructure is not an economically viable solution. Traditionally, FPSOs are converted from oil tankers, which entails that they are not equipped with an appropriate mooring system. A spread...
master thesis 2017
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Kardomateas, K.A. (author)
Contrary to conventional conversion FPSOs, new-build FPSOs are not equipped with a propulsion system. This thesis explores the idea of installing a cost-effective low-power propulsion system on a new-build FPSO and letting it transit self-propelled to its destination, without compromising the safety. To this end, a computational tool is...
master thesis 2016
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Aalbers, C. (author)
Wave drift loads on ships and offshore structures have been a topic of research over the past 50 years, however the linear theory which is used to calculate those has not changed. The aim of this research project is to investigate the effect of bow shape on the second order drift load. A better understanding of the difference between the actual...
master thesis 2016
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Tatsis, K. (author)
In the offshore oil and gas industry, production takes place at more and more remote locations, with Floating Production Storage Offloading units (FPSO’s) often being selected for field development. These units may remain on station during their entire lifetime while operating under adverse weather conditions. Inspections, which have to be...
master thesis 2016
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Van Wijnbergen, S.R. (author)
This study dealt with the problems caused by green water waves, waves that reach so high that significant overflow onto the deck occurs. The most important hazard caused by green water is the direct impact load on deck, threatening equipment, hull structure and personnel. The goal of current green water research is to be able to (better) predict...
master thesis 2016
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Van Wijnbergen, S.R. (author)
This study dealt with the problems caused by green water waves, waves that reach so high that significant overflow onto the deck occurs. The most important hazard caused by green water is the direct impact load on deck, threatening equipment, hull structure and personnel. The goal of current green water research is to be able to (better) predict...
master thesis 2016
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Zou, T. (author), Kaminski, M.L. (author)
In design and operation of floating offshore structures, one has to avoid fatigue failures caused by action of ocean waves. The aim of this paper is to investigate the applicability of WaveWatch-III wave model to fatigue assessment of offshore floating structures. The applicability was investigated for Bluewaters’ FPSO (Floating Production,...
journal article 2016
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Poen, G.J. (author)
The size and production capacity of Floating Production, Storage and Offloading units, or FPSOs, is ever growing. SBM Offshore specialized in converting existing oil tankers into FPSOs. One of the limitations they found was the available deck space for the topsides modules. A new concept was proposed to solve this problem: a twin hull FPSO, made...
master thesis 2015
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Dam, M.A.C. (author)
The design of a mooring system can be a frustrating and time consuming task, owing to the large number of design cases, software interfaces and sometimes changing requirements. Although frequency domain is a faster method, the behavior of the FPSO and the loads on the turret mooring system in a certain environment is most accurately predicted in...
master thesis 2015
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Van Kampen, M.J. (author)
As hydrocarbon supplies dwindle, technology develops and long-term hydrocarbon prices rise it is becoming more and more economical to develop hydrocarbon fields offshore. An FPSO vessel can be favored as it is flexible, quickly commissioned and cost-effective, be used at all water depths and does not require additional pipelines to shore. To...
master thesis 2015
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Van Vliet, E. (author)
A study in the application of topology optimization to problems of realtive nature, as found in the load distribution within an FPSO main bearing.
master thesis 2015
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Petillo, F. (author)
FPSOs are nowadays a common practice in the production of oil at sea. These ship-type offshore units, however, cannot have regular dry-docking as they have to be on field sometimes even for their entire lifetime. This is the reason why structural monitoring systems may play an important role in the safety of these units. The MONITAS JIP was...
master thesis 2015
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Tammer, M (author), Kaminski, M.L. (author)
The key challenge of managing Floating Production Storage and Offloading assets (FPSOs) for offshore hydrocarbon production lies in maximizing the economic value and productivity, while minimizing the Total Cost of Ownership and operational risk. This is a comprehensive task, considering the increasing demands of performance contracting, (down...
conference paper 2014
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Xue, H. (author), Popov, M. (author)
Large transient overvoltages are normally caused by vacuum circuit breaker (VCB) switching operation during disconnection of induction motors. In this paper VCBs, cables, generators, busbars, induction motors and surge arresters are modeled by making use of ATP-EMTP. Switching transient overvoltages of four typical induction motors are analyzed...
conference paper 2013
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