Optimization of floating wind turbines using innovative control techniques and fully coupled open source engineering tool

Project Information

FLOATECH

Grant agreement ID: 101007142

DOI

10.3030/101007142

Project closed

EC signature date 14 December 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Total cost

€ 4 294 688,75

EU contribution

€ 4 096 355,00

Coordinated by

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (15)

2.3 DLC Database

A complete postprocessed DLC database from the simulations with QBladeOcean is loaded on the publicly accessible webserver

6.4 Final report on the project exploitation initiatives

Report on the concrete actions related to the protection and exploitation of the project results (including dissemination and communication activities) undertaken during the project duration toward the objectives (PEDR) and evaluation of their impact.

5.3 Report on the LCOE parameterization for AWC and AWM controlled wind turbines

Finalized report on the LCOE parameterization for AWC and AWM controlled wind turbines is worked out.

7.1 Quality Management Plan

A Quality Management Plan (based on ISO 9001 and 14001) will be defined and will include all the project procedures (information, reporting, dissemination, etc.). Simple output indicators will be developed for each WP with the aim to monitor the fulfilment. One revision will be done in M17 and M35.

6.2 Plan for exploitation and dissemination of the project results

Document which summarizes the beneficiaries strategy and concrete actions related to the protection dissemination communication and exploitation of the project results

2.4 Report on estimated reduction of uncertainties

Full report on the estimated reduction of uncertainty in comparison to the stateoftheart codes OpenFast and DeepLines Wind is compiled

D7.2

Midterm project report

5.2 Report on the LCOE improvement of AWM controlled FOWT

Report on the LCOE improvement of AWM controlled FOWT is ready

1.2 Technical Report: Higher Order Hydroelastic Module

The higher Order Hydroelastic Module has been integrated and validated

2.2 Validation report QBlade-Ocean

Av alidation report of the new integrated aerohydroservoelastic simulation framework QBladeOcean has been created

1.1 Technical Report: Hybrid Eulerian- Lagrangian Aerodynamic Model

The Implementation of hybrid EulerianLagrangian flow solver with multilevel method and coupling of the solver to QBladeocean is achieved and documented Parallelization of flow solver and demonstration of calculation with GPU acceleration has been carried out

D7.3

Final project report

6.3 Mid-term report on dissemination and communication activities

Report on the dissemination and communication actions for the first half of the project including KPIs report

1.3 Training Manual, Project Partner Workshop and Public Dissemination

A training workshop hosted by TUB and ECN for the project partners for use of the software will be carried out A user manual and set of exemplary use cases shall be provided and the partners trained in the use of the software A test case databank and code repository is made available through the FLOTECH website

5.1 Report on the LCOE improvement of AWC controlled FOWT

A report on the LCOE improvement of AWC controlled FOWT is compiled

Other (2)

2.1 Aero-hydro-elastic model definition

The Aerohydroelastic model definition is completed A database including the full aerohydroelastic model definition for OC4 DeepCWind SOFTWIND and Hexafloat test cases in QBladeOcean are prepared

3.1 Advanced open source wind turbine controller

An advanced open source wind turbine controller for power generation and load mitigation using real-time feedforward wave information is available.

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

6.1 Data Management Plan

The DMP will describe the data management life cycle for the data to be collected processed andor generated by the project according to type ORDP

Publications

Conference proceedings (6)

COMPUTATION OF SECOND-ORDER WAVE LOADS ON FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE PLATFORMS IN BI-CHROMATIC BI-DIRECTIONAL WAVES USING OPEN-SOURCE POTENTIAL FLOW SOLVER NEMOH

Author(s): Ruddy Kurnia; Guillaume Ducrozet
Published in: Proceedings of 18èmes Journées de l'Hydrodynamique, 2022
Publisher: 18èmes Journées de l'Hydrodynamique
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7418379

Second Order Difference- and Sum-Frequency Wave Loads in the Open-Source Potential Flow Solver NEMOH

Author(s): R. Kurnia, G. Ducrozet, J.-C. Gilloteaux
Published in: Proceedings of the ASME 2022 41st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, 2022, ISBN 978-0-7918-8589-5
Publisher: ASME
DOI: 10.1115/omae2022-79163

Development of phase-resolved real-time wave forecasting with unidirectional and multidirectional seas

Author(s): In-Chul Kim, Guillaume Ducrozet, Yves Perignon
Published in: ASME 2023 42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Issue Volume 5, Ocean Engineering, 2023, ISBN 978-0-7918-8687-8
Publisher: ASME
DOI: 10.1115/omae2023-104857

Annotated Guidelines for the Simulation of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines in a Real Environment

Author(s): Francesco Papi, Alessandro Bianchini
Published in: ASME 2023 42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Issue Volume 1: Offshore Technology, 2023, ISBN 978-0-7918-8683-0
Publisher: ASME
DOI: 10.1115/omae2023-101926

Derivation of Met-Ocean Conditions for the Simulation of Floating Wind Turbines: a European case study

Author(s): Francesco Papi, Yves Perignon, Alessandro Bianchini
Published in: Journal of Physics Conference Series, Issue Volume 2385 (1), 2022
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2385/1/012117

Using The Helix Mixing Approach On Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Author(s): Daniel van den Berg, Delphine de Tavernier, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Issue Volume 2265 (4), 2022
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2265/4/042011

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Real-time phase-resolved ocean wave prediction in directional wave fields: Enhanced algorithm and experimental validation

Author(s): I.-C. Kim, G. Ducrozet, F. Bonnefoy, V. Leroy, Y. Perignon
Published in: Ocean Engineering, Issue Volume 276, 2023, ISSN 0029-8018
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.114212

NEMOH: Open-source boundary element solver for computation of first- and second-order hydrodynamic loads in the frequency domain

Author(s): Ruddy Kurnia, Guillaume Ducrozet
Published in: Computer Physics Communications, Issue Volume 292, 2023, ISSN 0010-4655
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108885

A real-time wave prediction in directional wave fields: Strategies for accurate continuous prediction in time

Author(s): I.-C. Kim, G. Ducrozet, V. Leroy, F. Bonnefoy, Y. Perignon, S. Bourguignon
Published in: Ocean Engineering, Issue Volume 291, 2024, ISSN 0029-8018
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.116445

The Dynamic Coupling Between the Pulse Wake Mixing Strategy and Floating Wind Turbines

Author(s): D. van den Berg, D. de Tavernier, J.-W. van Wingerden
Published in: Wind Energy Science, Issue Volume 8, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 2366-7443
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/wes-8-849-2023

Numerical and experimental investigation on deterministic prediction of ocean surface wave and wave excitation force

Author(s): I.-C. Kim, G. Ducrozet, V. Leroy, F. Bonnefoy, Y. Perignon, S. Delacroix
Published in: Applied Ocean Research, Issue Volume 142, 2024, ISSN 0141-1187
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2023.103834