How energy service companies moderate the impact of industrialization and urbanization on carbon emissions in China?

S Zheng, R Wang, TMW Mak, SC Hsu… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Energy service companies (ESCOs) have emerged to carry out energy efficiency retrofit
projects, playing an essential role in mitigating carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions in China …

A review of survivability and remedial actions of tidal current turbines

L Chen, WH Lam - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Tidal current energy is one of the most predictable ocean renewable energies. Survivability
of the device used to harness tidal power and its remedial actions are critical to ensure a …

Offshore wind turbine fatigue loads: The influence of alternative wave modeling for different turbulent and mean winds

E Marino, A Giusti, L Manuel - Renewable Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The coupled hydro-aero-elastic response and fatigue loads of a bottom-supported offshore
wind turbine under different wind conditions and for different wave modeling assumptions is …

Floating offshore wind turbine reliability analysis based on system grading and dynamic FTA

X Zhang, L Sun, H Sun, Q Guo, X Bai - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Currently, floating offshore wind power acts as a new form of marine renewable energy,
attracting much attention all over the world. Due to constraints of technology and cost …

Variability of breaking wave characteristics and impact loads on offshore wind turbines supported by monopiles

S Hallowell, AT Myers, SR Arwade - Wind Energy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Most existing and planned offshore wind turbines (OWTs) are located in shallow water
where the possibility of breaking waves impacting the structure may influence design …

Decoupled modelling approaches for environmental interactions with monopile-based offshore wind support structures

P van der Male, M Vergassola, KN van Dalen - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
To meet the political goals regarding renewable energy production, offshore wind keeps
expanding to waters with larger depths and harsher conditions, while the turbine size …

Effects of spilling and plunging type breaking waves acting on large monopile offshore wind turbines

Y Tang, W Shi, D Ning, J You… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In the present paper, the computational fluid dynamics method is used to investigate the
effects of breaking wave loads on a 10-MW large-scale monopile offshore wind turbine …

Wind tunnel tests on floating offshore wind turbines: A proposal for hardware-in-the-loop approach to validate numerical codes

I Bayati, M Belloli, A Facchinetti… - Wind …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper describes the realization of a 2-DoF experimental rig, performed at Politecnico di
Milano Wind Tunnel, aimed at simulating the motion of a floating wind turbine scale model …

A novel numerical strategy for the simulation of irregular nonlinear waves and their effects on the dynamic response of offshore wind turbines

E Marino, C Lugni, C Borri - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a novel numerical procedure for the prediction of nonlinear hydrodynamic loads
exerted on offshore wind turbines exposed to severe weather conditions. The main feature …

The role of the nonlinear wave kinematics on the global responses of an OWT in parked and operating conditions

E Marino, C Lugni, C Borri - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2013 - Elsevier
High accuracy in the prediction of design loads for offshore wind turbines is a crucial
prerequisite to achieve safe and economic designs. In this paper it is shown that numerical …