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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"mooring system"”.
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Open ocean fish cage and mooring system dynamics
… industry. To design and evaluate fish cages and moorings for the energetic open ocean requires a systematic approach utilizing physical and numerical modeling techniques. Using these methods, two robust fish cage and mooring systems were designed, deployed and have survived two New England …
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Dynamic analysis of a spar-type offshore floating wind turbine and its mooring system
… by a spar platform and held in place with three mooring lines. It is important to study the dynamic responses of the floating platform and the mooring system behaviour so that the OFWT can be designed and constructed safely and economically and generate electricity with reliability. However, …
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Innovative Floating Wind Turbine with Synthetic Mooring System and Feasibility Analysis of a Solar-Wind-Battery Hybrid System
Synthetic mooring lines, characterized by their neutral buoyancy and high strength, are crucial for maintaining the station-keeping of Floating Wind Turbines (FWTs) by providing the necessary restoring forces while minimizing the vertical loads on the platform. This thesis explores the evolution of …
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A CFD study of fluid-structure interaction problems for floating offshore wind turbines
… wind turbines, an FOWT is a fully coupled system where the wind turbine with flexible blades and the floating platform with its mooring system interact with each other in wind and waves, which makes old design tools inadequate.;This work aims to develop a fully coupled high-fidelity …
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Hydrodynamic analysis of the offshore floating nuclear power plant
… improve hydrodynamic performance. A catenary mooring system was designed and analyzed for both plant models. The number of chains and the length of each were selected to ensure the mooring systems would withstand, with sufficient margins of safety, the maximum tension produced in a 100-year …
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A hydrodynamic analysis of deep-water moorings
… to deep water has an impact on the selection of mooring system configuration and design method. Methods of analysis need to be re-evaluated as water depth increases. The primary purpose of this thesis is to study the hydrodynamics of deep water moorings and the nonlinear dynamic response of the …
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Mooring lines analysis and design for wave energy converters
… mainly by colliding waves. Therefore, their mooring system is a fundamental component, which inuences overall performance characteristics through its dynamic behaviour.;The mooring component of wave power devices has been typically analysed and designed by using a simplified static and …
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Flexible dynamics of floating wind turbines
… consisting of a tower, a floating platform and a mooring system. In this multi-body, linear frequency-domain model, the tower is represented as a series of uniform Timoshenko beams connected to each other. The deflections of the tower are solved analytically in each beam while the mass, damping …
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Dynamic response analysis of spar buoy floating wind turbine systems
… energy crisis solution. Floating wind turbine systems are being considered as a key solution to make the offshore wind farm feasible from an economic viewpoint, and viable as an energy resource. This paper presents the design of a synthetic mooring system for spar buoy floating wind turbines …
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Experimental analysis of an energy self sufficient ocean buoy utilizing a bi-directional turbine
… monitoring buoy using a unique gumby hose mooring system. The buoy's mission is to monitor the Massachusetts Bay for Right whale vocalizations. The turbine needed to convert a suitable amount of energy without interfering with the buoy's overall survivability or mission readiness. The …
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Design of subsea energy storage chamber
… replacing dependable fossil-fuel based energy systems. This limitation could be overcome if the energy harvested from these resources could be stored temporarily and then released when needed. The large hydrostatic head at the ocean floor provides a unique opportunity for storing energy …
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The relationship of potential hazards towards safety impact at Malaysian floating storage facility
… based on the ship building technology, the system will easily contribute to the potential hazard or risk that is difficult to quantify due to short of experience, if compared to shipping industry. This thesis gives an overview of the potential hazards during normal activity and the safety …
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An experimental investigation into the most prominent sources of uncertainty in wave tank testing of floating offshore wind turbines
… CoG, and errors due to incorrect replication of mooring forces and aerodynamic forces from the turbine. Scaling wind turbine blade properties can be challenging; this is because aerodynamic forces are scaled using Reynolds scaling, but all hydrodynamic forces are scaled using Froude scaling. For …
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Modelling, survivability, assessment, and control of moored wave energy conversion systems
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment