Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines

Abstract- Renewable energy has attracted a great deal of attention among academics, industries and governments all over the world in recent times. Wind energy has catered to the increasing demand for pollution-free production of energy. in a number of countries, offshore wind turbines are being...

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Main Authors: Kurian, V.J., Ganapathy, C.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2010
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http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/2362/1/SBI-O2-INFR-06-Kurian.pdf
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Ganapathy, C.
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description Abstract- Renewable energy has attracted a great deal of attention among academics, industries and governments all over the world in recent times. Wind energy has catered to the increasing demand for pollution-free production of energy. in a number of countries, offshore wind turbines are being used to convert the energy from wind over the oceans to electric energy. Offshore winds flow at higher speed than onshore winds over a much larger space. More than fifteen offshore European wind facilities with turbine ratings of 450 kW to 4 MW exist today in very shallow waters of 5 to 15 m. Offshore wind turbines are bigger compared to onshore wind turbines, and the tower heights are in the range of 60 to 80 m. The costs of building and maintaining the turbines and transmitting the power back to shore also increase sharply as the distance from land increases. Three different types of foundations have been used generally to support offshore wind mills. They are gravity based, monopile and torpid foundations. Monopiles with diameters reaching up to 6 m are used on most offshore projects. The objective of this paper is to review the parameters of design of the monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines. The environmental loads would be calculated for specific cases. Keywords: offshore wind energy, monopile foundation, wind turbines, environmental load.
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spelling oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:23622017-03-20T01:59:53Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/2362/ Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines Kurian, V.J. Ganapathy, C. TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Abstract- Renewable energy has attracted a great deal of attention among academics, industries and governments all over the world in recent times. Wind energy has catered to the increasing demand for pollution-free production of energy. in a number of countries, offshore wind turbines are being used to convert the energy from wind over the oceans to electric energy. Offshore winds flow at higher speed than onshore winds over a much larger space. More than fifteen offshore European wind facilities with turbine ratings of 450 kW to 4 MW exist today in very shallow waters of 5 to 15 m. Offshore wind turbines are bigger compared to onshore wind turbines, and the tower heights are in the range of 60 to 80 m. The costs of building and maintaining the turbines and transmitting the power back to shore also increase sharply as the distance from land increases. Three different types of foundations have been used generally to support offshore wind mills. They are gravity based, monopile and torpid foundations. Monopiles with diameters reaching up to 6 m are used on most offshore projects. The objective of this paper is to review the parameters of design of the monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines. The environmental loads would be calculated for specific cases. Keywords: offshore wind energy, monopile foundation, wind turbines, environmental load. 2010-06 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/2362/1/SBI-O2-INFR-06-Kurian.pdf Kurian, V.J. and Ganapathy, C. (2010) Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines. In: ICSBI 2010, part of ESTCON 2010, 15-17 June 2010, Kuala Lumpur.
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Kurian, V.J.
Ganapathy, C.
Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
title Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
title_full Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
title_fullStr Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
title_full_unstemmed Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
title_short Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
title_sort monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines
topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
url http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/2362/
http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/2362/1/SBI-O2-INFR-06-Kurian.pdf