Descrizione del progetto
Studiare il trascinamento nell’energia eolica offshore
Il trascinamento dell’energia cinetica è un processo essenziale nei parchi eolici offshore nonché l’unico processo a immettere energia in parchi eolici molto grandi («infiniti»). Ulteriori analisi e lo studio del processo sono necessari per l’industria eolica offshore e la relativa politica di pianificazione. Il progetto Train2Wind, finanziato dall’UE, è una rete di formazione per ricercatori nella fase iniziale della carriera che si propone di approfondire il processo di trascinamento e determinare se esiste un limite alla densità di installazione di parchi eolici offshore. Applicherà modelli numerici avanzati ed esperimenti in galleria del vento in combinazione con strumenti di osservazione ad alta tecnologia quali droni, lidar e satelliti. Il progetto accederà ad alcuni dei più grandi parchi eolici offshore e ai loro dati fornendo conoscenze essenziali sia per il parco eolico che per le agenzie governative che lavorano alla pianificazione dello spazio marittimo.
Obiettivo
TRAIN2WIND is a PhD TRAINing school analysing enTRAINment in offshore WIND farms with computer models and experiments. By its very nature, a wind turbine extracts energy from the wind, which is replenished from the wind field on the sides and above due to the ambient turbulence. However, offshore the turbulence is lower, and wind farms are typically larger than onshore, therefore the wind can only be replenished from above in a process called entrainment. TRAIN2WIND will investigate the entrainment process using advanced high-resolution computer modelling and wind tunnel models together with measurements of the wind field above, in and downstream of large wind farms, using lidars, radars, satellites and Unmanned Aerial Systems.
Some of the largest operators of offshore wind farms will provide access to the data and the wind farms in order to investigate whether there is a limit to offshore wind power installation density coming from the refreshment of momentum in very large wind farms or clusters. For them, and for the government agencies currently preparing the Marine Spatial Plan for the European waters, updated knowledge of entrainment and the associated potential limits to wind power extraction offshore is paramount to avoid mis-allocation of tens of billions of euros when planning offshore wind farms too dense or too close.
Besides the natural science package, one humanities PhD student will investigate the collaboration between the researchers from a social science and collaboration tools perspective. The project will not only train PhDs, it will also give shorter opportunities to fellows who just want to commit to one year at a time, thus training a total of 20 fellows.
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- natural sciences
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradar
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinatore
2800 Kongens Lyngby
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