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Huigen, Vincent (author)The offshore wind industry is a quickly growing market because the increasing demand for clean energy sources. Large wind speeds and the abundance of potential wind farm locations make Offshore Wind Turbines an interesting solution. Because of high continuous dynamic loading and extreme environmental conditions, the structural design requires a...master thesis 2021
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Verbruggen, Jaap (author)Using a floating vessel operating on its DP-system and using a motion-compensated pile gripper to install monopiles could be the installation method of the future. Therefore, this thesis focuses on this method. The main objective of this thesis project is to build a model that accurately describes the motions of the Stella Synergy, the monopile,...master thesis 2021
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Gast, Tomas (author)The European Union has set ambitious goals in their climate and energy framework to guide our transition to a more sustainable society. To achieve this goal, a mix of sustainable sources will have to be utilised, in which wind energy plays a crucial role. Offshore wind has been growing in popularity within this market, as the onshore market is...master thesis 2021
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Thangaraju, Deepakraj (author)To increase the benefit of wind energy, the next generation wind turbines are becoming larger and are moving into deeper waters. This significantly increases the size and weight of the corresponding monopile support structures. In current practice, the majority of monopiles are installed using jack-ups or floating vessels using so-called...master thesis 2021
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Markolefas, Panagiotis (author)The preliminary design of wind turbine support structures within an offshore wind farm plays a significant role in decreasing the costs involved and is pivotal in establishing the wind sector as a leading contributor towards a sustainable future. During the early design stages, the optimization of structural dimensions, which involves a large...master thesis 2020
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Bottemanne, Job (author)In order to meet the climate goals to minimize the global temperature rise, an accelerated growth of renewable energy sources is necessary. Within the renewables market, the offshore wind sector takes a big part and has experienced a rapid growth over the past years. Around 80% of offshore wind turbines have a monopile foundation, (a large...master thesis 2020
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Broersen, Tijn (author)The number of offshore wind farms is growing rapidly, which increases the likelihood of ship collisions with offshore wind turbines. Additionally, the cost of energy reduction for wind turbines is achieved due to radical design optimizations. Therefore, simple methods should be obtained to determine the offshore wind turbine response during ship...master thesis 2020
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Taks, Thomas (author)With increasing diameters of offshore monopile foundations, impact hammers require more energy per blow in order to drive them into the seabed. This does not only increase the fatigue loading on the monopile, but it also increases underwater noise that affects marine life. The increase in installation costs due to additional material on the...master thesis 2020
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van Essen, Thijs (author)Offshore wind energy is one of the solutions to meet the growing demand for renewable energy. The offshore wind turbines producing this energy keep increasing in size and, as a result, the monopile foundations are becoming larger and heavier. The traditional jack-up installation vessels have limited crane capacity and many of these vessels are...master thesis 2020
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Groen, Olivier (author)A combination of the growth of the offshore wind energy sector and the decline in both species richness and species abundance in the North Sea has inspired the goal to use the scour protection in wind farms as a means to enhance marine life. Present research has focused on general changes which are to be applied to benefit marine life. However,...master thesis 2019
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Bascunan Chaparro, Sebastian (author)Monopiles are commonly used as foundations for offshore wind turbine generators (WTGs). Due to the rapid growth of the offshore wind energy sector, there is increasing demand for WTGs of larger capacities which evidently leads to demand for monopiles with larger diameter. An industry standard approach for assessing pile lateral response is the p...master thesis 2019
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Quinten, Tristan (author)As a result of population growth and economical prosperity, energy consumption has been on the rise for decades. Present-day projections predict the continuation of this trend with the rapid industrialization of former second world countries. Together with the rise of energy demand, incentives fo the scientific community to quantify the...master thesis 2019
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van Hoogstraten, Sara (author)Offshore wind energy is considered a necessary renewable energy resource, that may stimulate the transition from fossil fuels. Following the successful development in Western Europe, offshore wind is quickly gaining momentum in the Asia-Pacific region. At variance with North Sea-based offshore wind turbines, structures installed in the Asia...master thesis 2019
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Verlinde, Ronald (author)Offshore wind energy is considered a necessary energy resource, that may stimulate the transition from fossil fuels. Following the successful development in Western Europe, offshore wind is quickly gaining momentum in the Asia-Pacific region. At variance with North-Sea based offshore wind turbines (OWTs), structures installed in the Asia-Pacific...master thesis 2019
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van der Veen, Gerard (author)To respond to the growing offshore industry Jumbo Maritime has designed a new vessel to expand its offshore fleet: The Stella Synergy. The vessel will be able to install monopiles for the offshore wind and oil and gas industry. The main objective of this thesis is: Making a model that is able to predict the motions of the vessel as well as the...master thesis 2019
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Blok, Sanne (author)Offshore wind turbines are commonly supported by monopile foundations. Impact hammering is the conventional method for installing offshore monopiles but has several disadvantages. Time-consuming installation procedures, high noise emissions and steel fatigue due to the high impact are problems resulting from this installation procedure. GBM...master thesis 2019
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Jutten, Daan (author)Offshore wind farms are moving to deeper waters, implying that larger substructures will need to be installed. The monopile is the leading substructure nowadays and this structure could be promising for use in deeper waters as well. Generally, jack-up vessels are used for the installation of the substructures and turbines. However, the jacking...master thesis 2019
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Misios, George (author)Wind turbines constitute a sustainable and effective solution to produce energy using wind power. Offshore wind turbines are becoming of special interest and more demanding with continuously increased diameters. However, their design poses great challenges, since the installation and fabrication tolerances in combination with high cyclic loading...master thesis 2019
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Hasper, Youri (author)With increasing evidence of human-induced accelerated climate change, the need of sustainable, non-polluting, energy sources becomes evident. Offshore wind generated electricity is currently one of the most promising sources of energy to create a sustainable global energy mix. The offshore wind industry has developed rapidly over the last years....master thesis 2019
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Thakor, Sawan (author)To fulfil the increase in global demand of clean energy, the dimensions of offshore wind turbines are expected to increase with greater capacities and move further offshore in deep waters. For these conditions, the diameter of the monopile will have to increase beyond current manufacturing capacities. The slip joint connection can provide a...master thesis 2019