LOAD MITIGATION ON FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES WITH ADVANCED CONTROLS AND TUNED MASS DAMPERS

Conference · Sun Nov 04 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1115/IOWTC2018-1096· OSTI ID:1461950

General Electric, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) and Glosten have recently completed a Department of Energy funded research program to study technologies for mitigating loads on floating offshore wind turbines through the use of advanced turbine controls and tuned mass dampers (TMDs). The analysis was based upon the Glosten PelaStar tension leg platform (TLP) with GE Haliade 150 turbine, a system developed in a previous FEED study funded by the Energy Technology Institute in the UK. The platform was designed for the WaveHub wave energy research site, with a mean water depth of 59 m.

• Research Organization: Alstom Renewable US LLC (GE Subsidiary), aka - Alstom Power Inc
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Wind Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: EE0005494
• OSTI ID: 1461950
• Report Number(s): DoE Alstom 0005494-7
• Resource Relation: Conference: Proceedings of the ASME 2018 1st International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, November 4-7, 2018, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA, November 4-7, 2018
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

Offshore Wind Turbines
advanced turbine controls
Tuned Mass Dampers
TMDs
passive
semi-active
fixed-bottom
monopile
floating
tension leg platform
FEED
WaveHub