Energy-related approach for reduction of CO2 emissions: A critical strategy on the port-to-ship pathway

AT Hoang, AM Foley, S Nižetić, Z Huang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The maritime sector has been searching for efficient solutions to change energy
consumptions patterns of ports and ships to ensure sustainable operation and to reduce CO …

Planning zero-emissions ports through the nearly zero energy port concept

N Sifakis, T Tsoutsos - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
This research work attempts to review and compare the available scientific literature, to
identify several crucial research opportunities, and to achieve the challenge of putting the …

Numerical study of the Wavestar wave energy converter with multi-point-absorber around DeepCwind semisubmersible floating platform

HR Ghafari, H Ghassemi, G He - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The presented paper numerically studies on the Wavestar wave energy converter (WEC)
with multi-point-absorber around the DeepCwind semisubmersible floating platform. The …

[HTML][HTML] A review of recent advancements in offshore wind turbine technology

T Asim, SZ Islam, A Hemmati, MSU Khalid - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Offshore wind turbines are becoming increasingly popular due to their higher wind energy
harnessing capabilities and lower visual pollution. Researchers around the globe have …

[HTML][HTML] Review of key technologies for offshore floating wind power generation

B Zhou, Z Zhang, G Li, D Yang, M Santos - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, due to the global energy crisis, increasingly more countries have recognized
the importance of developing clean energy. Offshore wind energy, as a basic form of clean …

Exploring inflow wind condition on floating offshore wind turbine aerodynamic characterisation and platform motion prediction using blade resolved CFD simulation

Y Zhou, Q Xiao, Y Liu, A Incecik, C Peyrard, D Wan… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study is aimed at investigating the effect of turbulent wind and shear wind on the
floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) structure by using a high-fidelity computational fluid …

[HTML][HTML] Floating offshore vertical axis wind turbines: Opportunities, challenges and way forward

A Arredondo-Galeana, F Brennan - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The offshore wind sector is expanding to deep water locations through floating platforms.
This poses challenges to horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWTs) due to the ever growing …

Introducing the cold‐ironing technique and a hydrogen‐based hybrid renewable energy system into ports

N Sifakis, E Vichos, A Smaragdakis… - … Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Natural resources' unexpected nature makes renewable energy sources' power supply
irregular and inflexible; weather conditions are impossible to be predicted. Energy storage …

Numerical investigation of aerodynamic responses and wake characteristics of a floating offshore wind turbine under atmospheric boundary layer inflows

S Xu, T Zhuang, W Zhao, D Wan - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) inflow has significant effects on behaviors of floating
offshore wind turbine (FOWT), especially for large-size wind turbine. In this study, numerical …

On the aerodynamic loading effect of a model Spar-type floating wind turbine: An experimental study

B Wen, Z Jiang, Z Li, Z Peng, X Dong, X Tian - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Aerodynamic loading is one of the most dominating environmental excitations of Floating
Wind Turbines (FWTs) and plays an important role in the FWT dynamics. In this study, we …