Potential impacts of floating wind turbine technology for marine species and habitats

SM Maxwell, F Kershaw, CC Locke… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Offshore wind energy is expanding globally and new floating wind turbine technology now
allows wind energy developments in areas previously too deep for fixed-platform turbines …

[HTML][HTML] An optimisation methodology for suspended inter-array power cable configurations between two floating offshore wind turbines

IB Ahmad, A Schnepf, MC Ong - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) convert wind energy to electrical energy in deeper
water areas where installing bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines is not feasible. However …

Optimization of floating wind farm power collection system using a novel two-layer hybrid method

D Song, J Yan, Y Gao, L Wang, X Du, Z Xu, Z Zhang… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Deep-sea floating wind farms have gained significant attention in recent years, however,
their high construction and operation cost remains a notable challenge. In the floating wind …

NOAA fisheries research geared towards climate-ready living marine resource management in the northeast United States

V Saba, D Borggaard, JC Caracappa… - PLOS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Climate change can alter marine ecosystems through changes in ocean temperature,
acidification, circulation, and productivity. Over the last decade, the United States northeast …

Feasibility study on suspended inter-array power cables between two spar-type offshore wind turbines

A Schnepf, C Lopez-Pavon, MC Ong, G Yin… - Ocean …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the feasibility of suspended inter-array cabling between two
floating offshore wind turbines. In these cable configurations, the power cables do not touch …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability analysis of floating wind turbine dynamic cables under realistic environmental loads

S Okpokparoro, S Sriramula - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The need for more robust design of dynamic cables used for power export in floating wind
turbine (FWT) systems is accentuated by the frequent occurrence of power cable failures …

[HTML][HTML] Application of suspended inter-array power cables in floating offshore wind farms

D Beier, MC Ong, MJ Janocha, N Ye - Applied Ocean Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The aim of the present study is to propose an engineering approach of designing
suspended inter-array power cable configuration for offshore wind farms. To achieve this, a …

A stepwise scheme for the optimization implementation of lazy wave dynamic cables

Y Wang, F Yan, Y Du, H Wang, S Ai, W Wang - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamic cables are usually designed to present a complex layout to improve service life
and safety in commercial scale floating applications. It is urgent to establish consistent …

Numerical investigations on suspended power cable configurations for floating offshore wind turbines in deep water powering an FPSO

A Schnepf, A Devulder… - Journal of …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are an opportunity for floating production storage
and offloading units (FPSOs) to reduce emissions. To avoid long connecting power cables …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of two dynamic power cable configurations for a floating offshore wind turbine in shallow water

S Zhao, Y Cheng, P Chen, Y Nie, K Fan - AIP Advances, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
For the study of the double wave configuration for the dynamic power cable of a Floating
Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) in shallow water, this paper presented a comparison of the …