Description du projet
Conception de turbine avancée pour une récupération maximale d’énergie éolienne en haute mer
L’énergie éolienne est la clé de l’avenir vert de l’UE. La grande capacité des éoliennes offshore à produire de l’électricité, ainsi que le potentiel restreint des parcs éoliens terrestres, accentuent la nécessité d’exploiter l’énergie éolienne dans les eaux plus profondes de manière durable. Le projet FLOATECH, financé par l’UE, développera un ensemble d’outils de production et de surveillance innovants pour réduire les incertitudes dans le processus de conception des éoliennes flottantes. FLOATECH veut fournir des éoliennes flottantes plus sophistiquées, fiables et rentables, conduisant à une amélioration du rendement énergétique réel des parcs éoliens flottants.
Objectif
Wind is one of the leading sources of renewables contributing to EU energy mix, and its exploitation is pivotal to meet many of next environmental and energy policy goals. Europe being one of the world technological leaders, its wind energy sector has evolved into an important industry providing hundreds of thousands of jobs. Due to the limitations of available installation sites onshore, offshore wind is becoming crucial to ensure the further growth of the sector. In this scenario, exploiting the vast wind resources in deeper waters using floating wind farms and developing the required technology will enhance EU’s economy and will contribute to achieve its green energy goals.
FLOATECH aims at stimulating this transition by increasing the technical maturity and the cost competitiveness of floating offshore wind energy. This will be achieved by two types of actions. On the one hand, a fully-coupled, aero-hydro-servo-elastic design and simulation environment (named QBlade-Ocean) will be developed. The more advanced modelling theories will lead to a reduction of the uncertainties in the design process and then to more efficient, reliable and cost-effective floating wind turbines. On the other hand, two innovative control techniques will be introduced, i.e. the Active Wave-based feed-forward Control and the Active Wake Mixing, which will lead to an increase of the actual energy yield of floating wind farms. Wave tank and wind tunnel experiments, as well as the application to a utility-size floating wind turbine are foreseen as validation and demonstration methods.
The consortium comprises five public research institutions with relevant skills in the field of offshore floating wind energy, and three industrial partners, two of which have been involved in the most recent developments of floating wind systems. An innovation advisory board including stakeholders such as certifiers, research and business networks will support the dissemination of the project results.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
10623 Berlin
Allemagne