Aerodynamic Design Optimization of Floating Wind Turbines for In Situ Hydrogen Production

The energy transition towards carbon neutrality requires a rapid electrification of all energy sectors by 2050. In the EU-27, the REPowerEU strategy, initiated in March 2022, is pursuing this target even more ambitiously. However, in order to achieve the aforementioned goals, the increasing demand for green hydrogen will...

Low-Wind Turbines in the Dutch Power Grid: Understanding the Effect of Low-Wind Turbines on Storage Capacity and System Costs

One of the major challenges that the world currently faces is the energy transition. The aim of most countries worldwide is to reduce their carbon footprint, in order to slow climate change. Fossil fuel powered energy generation is replaced with an increasing share of variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy. Because of...

Tip leakage reduction in small turbines for rocket applications

Dawn Aerospace is developing a small launch vehicle in the form of a spaceplane, which is powered by a turbopump driven rocket. To reach higher engine efficiency and save weight, there is a need for a small highly-power dense turbine. The efficiency of small turbines strongly depends on the tip gap sizes compared to the blade height. Existing...

Wind Turbine Design for a Hybrid System: with the emphasis on generation complementarity

The global issue on global warming leads nations to reduce their carbon emission, and one way to do it is by decarbonising the power system and employing higher penetration of renewable energy technology. However, due to the variable nature of renewable energy, their integration to the power system poses challenges to the utilities and system...

A new coupled modelling framework for turbine inflow generation: mesoscale-synthetic turbulence

At the mercy of strong winds, high wind shear, unstable boundary layer and anomalous atmospheric conditions, stands a wind turbine designed to produce sustainable power under harsh conditions. The field of wind energy is a promising prospect for a sustainable future. Diverse research towards the improvement of a wind turbine’s capability and...

Offshore wind + Energy Storage: Selection and design of energy storage for the integration of offshore wind energy in the future Dutch electricity system

The Dutch government has set out to largely reach reductions in carbon emissions in the electricity sector with the utilization of offshore wind energy. Due to the intermittency of wind energy this poses new problems and challenges for the future electricity system in the Netherlands. The objective of this report is to identify the challenges...

Supersonic Axial & Radial Rotor Design for ORC Applications: Using Method of Characteristics

The growing environmental concerns has put a lot of political & ethical pressure on the conventional industrial practices. The research community is ever so eager to investigate new technologies that can offer an efficient and environmentally sound solution to the issues caused by the polluting industrial processes. One of the potential...

Design and Noise Study of a Low-Drag Wind Turbine for Airborne Power Applications: A Numerical and Experimental assesment

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...

Active subspaces for the preliminary fluid dynamic design of unconventional turbomachinery

The fluid dynamic preliminary design of unconventional turbomachinery is customary done with meanline design procedures coupled with gradient-free optimizers. This method features various drawbacks, since it might become computationally expensive, and it does not provide design insights or guidelines to the designer. This work proposes a...

Final report WP 4.2: Support Structure Concepts for Deep Water Sites: Deliverable D4.2.8 (WP4: offshore foundations and support structures)

With the number of offshore wind farms rapidly increasing, in a wide variety of site conditions and using different turbine sizes, the need for alternative support structures other than the conventional monopile structure is apparent and several projects have been realised using other support structure types. In this report the results of Upwind...

Executive summary (WP4: Offshore foundations and support structures)

Upwind design basis (WP4: Offshore foundations and support structures)

The presented design basis gives a summarized overview of relevant design properties for a later offshore wind turbine design procedures within work package 4. The described offshore site is located in the Dutch North Sea and has a water depth of 21m. Therefore it will be chosen as shallow site within the work package for further design studies....