Projektbeschreibung
Weniger Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt durch schwimmende Offshore-Innovationen
Schwimmende Offshore-Windkraftanlagen bergen immenses Potenzial für das ehrgeizige Ziel der Europäischen Kommission, den Übergang zu klimaneutraler Energie zu meistern. Doch der Ausbau von schwimmenden Offshore-Anlagen stellt ein Problem für den Schutz und Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt in den EU-Meeresbecken dar. Über das EU-finanzierte Projekt INF4INiTY sollen kritische Technologie für Offshore-Windkraftanlagen der Zukunft entwickelt werden, um den menschlichen Bedarf an sauberer Energie mit der Notwendigkeit in Einklang zu bringen, die negativen Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt und die Gesellschaft zu minimieren. Schwerpunkt der Projektarbeit ist ein naturverträgliches Design für Schwerkraftanker und das dazugehörige Kolkschutzsystem sowie eine innovative künstliche Primärriffstruktur in Kombination mit der Basis einer schwimmenden Offshore-Windkraftanlage.
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The importance of an increased exploitation of renewable energy sources is highlighted by the recent geo-political events with their impact on energy security and pricing, together with the global efforts to mitigate the anthropogenic climate change. Floating offshore wind, with its tremendous potential, will play an important role in the future to achieve the European Commission’s ambitious goals towards a climate-neutral energy transition. However, the required expansion of floating offshore wind capacity to achieve, e.g. the EU’s SET Plan targets, challenges the goal to protect and preserve bio-diversity (habitats and species) in the EU sea basins as set forth, e.g. by the Mission Healthy oceans. The INF4INiTY project (INtegrated designs for Future Floating oFFshore wINd farm TechnologY) aims to support the solution of this challenge. By developing critical technologies for the offshore wind farm of the future which enable balancing human needs (clean energy) with nature’s and society’s demands (decreased negative environmental and social impact). In particular, INF4INiTY provides two major technology innovations: an innovative nature inclusive design for gravity anchors and their associated scour protection system and (2) an innovative primary artificial reef structure combined with the floating structure of a floating offshore wind turbine. To that end, INF4INiTY combines world class numerical modelling and experimental analysis expertise with leading industrial technology development. Being immersed in a holistic techno-environomic, multi-level, multi-objective optimisation framework, INF4INiTY’s technology development results in truly innovative, economically viable, and sustainable solutions for the current techno-socio-enviro-economic challenges of the floating offshore wind industry.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringocean engineering
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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