Descripción del proyecto
Innovaciones flotantes en alta mar para reducir el impacto ambiental
La energía eólica marina flotante tiene un enorme potencial para desempeñar un papel esencial en la consecución de los ambiciosos objetivos de la Comisión Europea a fin de lograr una transición energética neutra para el clima. Sin embargo, la ampliación de la capacidad eólica marina flotante plantea un reto importante para la protección y conservación de la biodiversidad en las cuencas marinas de la Unión Europea. El equipo del proyecto INF4INiTY, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende desarrollar tecnologías críticas para los futuros parques eólicos marinos que equilibren las necesidades humanas de energía limpia con el imperativo de minimizar el impacto ambiental y social negativo. El equipo del proyecto se centra en un diseño que tiene en cuenta la naturaleza para anclajes de gravedad y su sistema asociado de protección contra la socavación, así como una innovadora estructura primaria de arrecife artificial combinada con la estructura flotante de una turbina eólica marina flotante.
Objetivo
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.
Ámbito científico
- 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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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
38106 Braunschweig
Alemania