Innovative circular materials and design methods for the development of Floating Wind Turbine components for offshore Wind Farms of the future

Project Information

MADE4WIND

Grant agreement ID: 101136096

DOI

10.3030/101136096

EC signature date 31 October 2023

Start date 1 December 2023

End date 31 May 2027

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

€ 6 003 276,25

EU contribution

€ 6 003 276,25

Coordinated by

SINTEF AS
Norway

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (4)

Reporting on Dissemination and Communication (Release 1)

The reports summarizing the communication and dissemination activities performed during the project. A major communication and dissemination plan for relevant stakeholders will be discussed.

Stakeholders mapping and position paper (Release 1)

Report on the target groups (relevant stakeholder identification) and plan to promote networking activities within the WIND industry value chain towards market update.

Project website and social network profiles

Launch of the online presence of the project open to public. All the major details related to the project will be uploaded. The website will serve as a collaborative space for internal information and document sharing among Project.

Plan for dissemination and exploitation

Strategy, guidelines and reference templates to promote project results. A sound communication and exploitation strategy will be prepared and described in the report.

Documents, reports (2)

Design of 15 MW lightweight drivetrain on TLP floating WT (Release 1)

In this report, the detailed design of the 15 MW lightweight drivetrain on a TLP floating wind turbine is provided. The design includes for example layout, gearbox parameters and generator specification. The report is updated as the optimization algorithms in T5.1 and T5.3 develop.

Use case scenario definition of the 15 MW FWT

Main objective of this deliverable to define a 15MW WT and TLP design that will serve as benchmark for the project, based on the SG 14-236 WT and augmented with publicly available data (IEA 15MW). This deliverable is an outcome of Task 2.1.

Publications

Conference proceedings (10)

Beyond resin chemistry: Architectural limits on the chemical recycling of pultruded carbon plank recyclamine composites

Author(s): Indraneel R. Chowdhury, Lars R. Jensen, Leonid Guverick, Francisco J. Hierro-Olabarria Salgado, Esben Lindgaard
Publisher: 3rd International conference on sustainable wind turbine blades, 17-19 November 2025, Roskilde, Denmark

New applications for aluminum in concrete marine infrastructure

Author(s): Baptiste Reyne, Virgile Delhaye and Rafael Ruiz-Maestre
Publisher: International Aluminium Conference (INALCO, 2026: Trondheim, Norway)

Accurate framework for modelling defect formation in the forming of binder-stabilised preforms in wind turbine blade manufacturing

Author(s): Peter H. Broberg, Esben Lindgaard, Adam J. Thompson, Jonathan P.-H. Belnoue, Stephen R. Hallett, and Brian L.V. Bak (AAU)
Publisher: ESAFORM 2025

Permanent Magnets in Offshore Wind: State of the Art, Future Trends and Risk

Author(s): Amir R. Nejad, Mihaela Ibrion
Published in: 2025 21st International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EEM64765.2025.11050118

Rare Earth Elements: Trade-Off for Environment, Energy Security and Policies

Author(s): Mihaela Ibrion, Amir R. Nejad
Published in: 2025 21st International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EEM64765.2025.11050308

FAST AND ACCURATE FORMING SIMULATION OF UNIDIRECTIONAL NON-CRIMP FABRICS USING A NEW KINEMATIC APPROACH

Author(s): Peter H. Broberg, Christian Krogh, Bastian Schäfer, Jan Paul Wank, Luise Kärger, Brian L.V. Bak, Esben Lindgaard
Publisher: 16th International Conference on Textile Composites (TexComp) in Bristol (UK) on 9-11 September 2026.

Reliability-based design optimization of fatigue-constrained main-bearing shaft assembly for large floating wind turbine drivetrains

Author(s): Vasudev Gupta and Amir Nejad
Publisher: Conference for Wind Power Drives (CWD)

A coherent chemical recycling study of glass fibre reinforcements recycled from novel Recyclamine epoxy composites

Author(s): Indraneel R. Chowdhury, Lars R. Jensen, Brian L.V. Bak, Esben Lindgaard
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Wind Energy Science Conference

Impact of chemical recycling on the surface roughness and sizing retention of carbon fiber reinforcements recovered from recyclamine epoxy composites

Author(s): Indraneel R. Chowdhury, Lars R. Jensen, Leonid Guverick, Brian LV. Bak, Esben Lindgaard
Published in: European Conference on Composite Materials, ECCM 22, 21 - 25 June 2026, Oslo, Norway
Publisher: European Conference on Composite Materials

Design and Modeling of a 15 MW Light-Weight Medium-Speed Drivetrain for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

Author(s): Mehlan, Felix; Nejad, R. Amir; Gupta, Vasudev
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Wind Energy Science Conference

Other (12)

Assessing surface integrity and mechanical performances of carbon fabrics recovered from recyclamine epoxy composites by chemical recycling

Author(s): Indraneel R. Chowdhury, Leonid Guverich, Fahimeh Shakibapour, Donghong Yu, Lars R. Jensen, Francisco J.Hierro-Olabarria Salgado, Esben Lindgaard

Chemical recycling and repurposing strategies for epoxy-based thermosets: toward functional circularity

Author(s): Virginia R.M.M. Cremonese

Sustainable chemical recycling of fibre-reinforced composites for wind turbine blades

Author(s): Indraneel R. Chowdhury, Peter H. Broberg, Rasmus L. Bjerg, Simon M. Jensen, Lars R. Jensen, Brian LV. Bak, Keld Lauridsen, Francisco J. Hierro-Olabarria Salgado, Ane KD. Gennaro, Esben Lindgaard
Publisher: The Future of Sustainable Plastics 2026, 13 March 2026, Aalborg, Denmark

MADE4WIND: New technologies for lightweight, recyclable, and easy-to-manufacture wind turbine blades of the future

Author(s): Indraneel R. Chowdhury, Peter H. Broberg, Rasmus L. Bjerg, Simon M. Jensen, Lars R. Jensen, Brian LV. Bak, Keld Lauridsen, Francisco J. Hierro-Olabarria Salgado, Esben Lindgaard
Publisher: EERA Deepwind Conference 2026, 14-16 January 2026, Trondheim, Norway

Optimisation of Preform Design for Wrinkle Reduction in Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing

Author(s): Tobias Ebek Sørensen, Jap Tade Carl, Moritz Griesel, Christian Krogh, Esben Lindgaard, Peter Hede Broberg

KinDrape3D: A kinematic forming tool for accurate multilayer composite forming

Author(s): Peter H. Broberg, Christian Krogh, Bastian Schäfer, Jan Paul Wank, Luise Kärger, Brian L.V. Bak, Esben Lindgaard

Low-energy closed-loop chemical recycling of glass fibre-reinforced recyclamine epoxy composites with fabric-scale recovery

Author(s): Indraneel R. Chowdhury, Rasmus L. Bjerg, Peter H. Broberg, Lars R. Jensen, Brian L.V. Bak, Francisco J.Hierro-Olabarria Salgado, Harald Stecher, Ane K. Di Gennaro, Esben Lindgaard
Publisher: Composites Part A journal

A new kinematic forming framework for fast and accurate prediction of transverse shear and inter-ply slip of thick multilayered preforms

Author(s): Peter H. Broberg, Christian Krogh, Bastian Schäfer, Jan Paul Wank, Luise Kärger, Brian L.V. Bak, Esben Lindgaard

An enhanced kinematic forming framework for fast and accurate prediction of in-plane strains in unidirectional fabrics

Author(s): Peter H. Broberg, Christian Krogh, Bastian Schäfer, Jan Paul Wank, Luise Kärger, Brian L.V. Bak, Esben Lindgaard
Published in: Composites Part B
Publisher: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/composites-part-b-engineering

Kinematic Optimisation of Preform Preshaping for Wrinkle Reduction in Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing

Author(s): Jap Tade Carl, Moritz Griesel, Tobias Ebek Sørensen

Design and Analysis of Wind Turbine Demonstrator

Author(s): Rasmus Christiansen, Sofie L. Overgaard, David P. Fernandez, Tiago M.M. Freire, Francisco D.S. Ramalho, Ali B. Moghaddam

CFD-Based Wake Steering Models for Floating Wind Turbines: Bridging High-Fidelity and Engineering Tools

Author(s): Balram Panjwani
Publisher: Deepwind 2026

Peer reviewed articles (5)

HISAPS: High-order smoothing spline with automatic parameter selection and shape constraints

Author(s): Peter H. Broberg; Esben Lindgaard; Asbjørn M. Olesen; Simon M. Jensen; Niklas K.K. Stagsted; Rasmus L. Bjerg; Riccardo Grosselle; Iñigo Urcelay Oca; Brian L.V. Bak
Published in: SoftwareX, 2025, ISSN 2352-7110
Publisher: ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOFTX.2025.102049

An Open-Access Integrated Hierarchical Optimization Framework applied to a 15 MW Medium-Speed Offshore Wind Turbine Drivetrain

Author(s): Felix C. Mehlan and Amir R. Nejad
Published in: Wind Energy Science, ISSN 2366-7451
Publisher: Copernicus Gmbh
DOI: 10.5194/WES-2026-90

Fatigue-constrained gradient-based design optimization of main bearing–shaft systems for floating wind turbine drivetrains

Author(s): Vasudev Gupta and Amir R. Nejad
Published in: Wind Energy Science, ISSN 2366-7451
Publisher: Copernicus Gmbh
DOI: 10.5194/WES-2026-105

System identification of offshore wind turbines for model updating and validation using field measurements

Author(s): Jakob Gebel, Ashkan Rezaei, Adithya Vemuri, Veronica Liverud Krathe, Pieter-Jan Daems, Jens Jo Matthys, Jonathan Sterckx, Konstantinos Vratsinis, Kayacan Kestel, Amir R. Nejad, Jan Helsen
Published in: Europeam Wind Energy Science, 2025, ISSN 2366-7451
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/WES-2024-173

Wind turbine blade root and blade bearing fatigue damage estimation based on field data

Author(s): Jakob Gebel; Ashkan Rezaei; Pieter-Jan Daems; Rebeca Marini; Jens-Jo Matthys; Amir R. Nejad; Jan Helsen
Published in: Forschung im Ingenieurwesen, 2025, ISSN 2352-7110
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S10010-025-00789-Z

Thesis and dissertations (1)

In-Situ SEM Testing Rig for Laminate Composite Failure Analysis

Author(s): Lukas R. Erichsen, Oliver V. Christensen, Jonas N. Isaksen, Jan A. Modrau, Magnus T.E. Ravn, Thor G.S. Verhoef