Descrizione del progetto
Innovazioni offshore galleggianti per ridurre l’impatto ambientale
L’eolico offshore galleggiante dispone di un enorme potenziale per svolgere un ruolo essenziale nel raggiungimento degli ambiziosi obiettivi fissati dalla Commissione europea al fine di realizzare una transizione energetica neutrale dal punto di vista climatico. Tuttavia, l’espansione della capacità eolica offshore galleggiante rappresenta una sfida significativa per la protezione e la conservazione della biodiversità nei bacini marini dell’UE. Il progetto INF4INiTY, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di sviluppare tecnologie critiche per i futuri parchi eolici offshore che consentano di trovare un equilibrio tra le esigenze umane di energia pulita e l’imperativo di ridurre al minimo gli impatti ambientali e sociali negativi. Il progetto si concentra su una progettazione inclusiva nei riguardi della natura per le ancore a gravità e il relativo sistema di protezione dalle mareggiate, nonché su un’innovativa struttura primaria di barriera corallina artificiale combinata con la struttura di una turbina eolica offshore galleggiante.
Obiettivo
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.
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- 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 ActionsCoordinatore
38106 Braunschweig
Germania