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Zwaginga, J.J. (author), Stroo, Ko (author), Kana, A.A. (author)To decrease Europe's harmful emissions, the European Union aims to substantially increase its offshore wind energy capacity. To further develop offshore wind energy, investment in ever-larger construction vessels is necessary. However, this market is characterised by seemingly unpredictable growth of market demand, turbine capacity and...journal article 2021
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Hoogendoorn, G. (author), van den Bos, W. (author), Polinder, H. (author)Wind turbine industry is growing and future predictions are promising. However, a shortage of installation vessels could influence this growth in offshore wind industry. Commonly, wind turbines are installed in components using a jack-up vessel. Occasionally, wind turbines are installed fully assembled. Lifting above the wind turbine is not...conference paper 2021
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Rego, Leandro (author), Ragni, D. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Casalino, D. (author), Zamponi, R. (author), Schram, Christophe (author)This paper investigates the application of flow-permeable materials as a solution for reducing jet-installation noise. Experiments are carried out with a flat plate placed in the near field of a single-stream subsonic jet. The flat plate is modular and the solid surface near the trailing edge can be replaced with different flow-permeable...journal article 2021
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Ren, Zhengru (author), Verma, Amrit Shankar (author), Ataei, Behfar (author), Halse, Karl Henning (author), Hildre, Hans Petter (author)Being one of the most commonly used offshore operations, offshore lifting operations become increasingly challenging due to the gradually growing size and weight of payloads. The research on automatic control in lifting operations, e.g., anti-swing control and heave compensation, only considers simple-shaped payloads, such as lumped-mass...journal article 2021
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Ouwehand, Tim (author)With a global growing demand of energy, more offshore wind farms are installed, further away and in deeper waters. Nowadays, offshore wind turbines are mostly installed by jack-up installation vessels. Most existing jack-up vessels have legs that are becoming too short for these water depths while offshore wind turbines are increasing in size...master thesis 2020
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Gopalan Achary Venkitachalam, Gopan (author)A gap in the understanding of offshore wind submarine power cables is responsible for 70-80 % of failures in recent times. The failures originate from the phases of design, manufacturing, installation and operations. Joint industry collaborations such as the Cable Lifetime Monitoring project that form the background for this thesis, are aimed at...master thesis 2020
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van Duijn, Niels (author)A QUAD lift is a new lifting method in which dual crane vessels combine their vessel capability to increase their offshore lift performance. The use of the Jumbo J-Class vessels in a QUAD lift creates the opportunity to increase the offshore lift capacity and to install structures with larger dimensions. When floating vessels are close to each...master thesis 2020
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van den Berg, Maarten (author)In current offshore wind turbine (WTG) tower installations, bolted flange connections are common. These connections are however reaching their limit due to the maximized size of the bolts. Also, bolted connections require the motions between the tower and foundation to be limited during installation, suggesting their workability of installation...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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Bastiaanssen, Piet (author)The offshore wind energy industry has been developing rapidly due to the increasing demand for renewable energy. As a result, offshore wind turbines are increasing in mass and height and are installed at larger water depths and further away from shore. A floating vessel is not limited by water depth and soil conditions, but is sensitive to wave...master thesis 2020
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Hoogendoorn, Gerben (author)Wind turbine industry is growing and future predictions are promising. However, a shortage of installation vessels could influence this growth in offshore wind industry. Commonly, wind turbines are installed in components using a jack-up vessel. Occasionally, wind turbines are installed fully assembled. The center of gravity of a fully assembled...master thesis 2020
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van Kooten, Rob (author)Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), is a renewable energy resource that uses the thermal gradient of the ocean to generate electricity. Warm surface water and cold deep sea water, which can be found at depths of approximately 1000 [m], are used to generate electricity in a thermodynamic Rankine cycle. Due to its dimensions, the installation...master thesis 2020
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Tikai, Karan (author)As the exploration for oil and gas is shifting towards greater water depths, there is a market for subsea rock installation (SRI) at these large water depths as well. Boskalis is a key player in the rock installation market and installing rock material at water depths of approximately 3000 meters is still far from routine work. Therefore,...master thesis 2020
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Zwaginga, Jesper (author)To decrease Europe’s harmful emissions, the European Union aims to substantially increase its offshore wind energy capacity. To further develop offshore wind energy, investment in ever-larger construction vessels is necessary. Designing these vessels is difficult however, as this market is characterised by a large but seemingly unpredictable...master thesis 2020
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Boogaart, Lukas (author)The yearly installed percentage of offshore wind jacket substructures is rising. The most common installation method for a jacket structure nowadays starts by driving the foundation piles in the seabed through a pre-piling template. The jacket is then lowered on top until the legs are resting on the foundation piles through friction-based...master thesis 2020
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Jonoski, Ilin (author)Over the last decade, the demand for offshore power cables has increased significantly due to, in particularly, the emergence of offshore wind. Despite this growth, industry-wide rules and guidelines to analyse fatigue during cable installation operations are yet to be developed, even though fatigue can become an important...master thesis 2020
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Pekárik, Júlia (author)This graduation project follows the process of researching, developing and creating a demonstrator for a surface design using the electroluminescent material - EL for short - a sandwich structured composite that emits light when alternating current flows through it. The project kicks-off with an analysis phase where the electroluminescent...master thesis 2020
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de Boer, Isar (author)The Nederlands Fotomuseum is the Dutch national museum for photography and its archive has the biggest collection of photographic material in the country. Currently, the visitors of the museum have a rather passive role and are merely subjected to the visual artworks in the museum. The museum desires to give the visitors more insight in the...master thesis 2020
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Sinke, Joël (author)During the design phase of a foundation installation aspects are easily overlooked. When this aspect is overlooked a foundation element risks not reaching its design depth or getting damaged during the installation process. As a result significant delays and/or costs could occur. A driveability study gives insight in the installation aspects of...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