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Consequences of introducing a cut-out wave height on a floating wind turbine concept

Amundsen, Jonas Skaare
Master thesis
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2013-08-27
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Abstract
This master's thesis has investigated the consequences of implementing a survival mode

system on the

oating wind turbine concept Tension-Leg-Buoy (TLB) which shuts down the

turbine at the cut-out wave height Hs;cut-out. The purpose of this is to reduce loads on the

turbine structure at extreme wave conditions. One possible system is to move the top mooring

lines upwards to the root of the nacelle, which has the potential of reducing loads in both

mooring lines and anchors. If this is achieved, the excess buoyancy can be reduced by making

the

oater smaller which again reduces the material cost of the turbine.

The downside of such a system is that the some of the annual energy production from the

wind turbine or wind farm will be lost since the turbine does not produce power in survival

mode. This leads to a yearly income loss which in total must be lower than the cost reduction

obtained from using less materials in the turbine components, in order for the system to

reduce the total cost of energy delivered by the turbine.

By using time series of meteorological data sets containing wind speed and signi cant wave

height from measurement stations in the North and Norwegian Sea, the energy loss at

di erent values of Hs;cut-out for all the sites has been found. If an energy loss of below 1% is

accepted, the optimal cut-out wave height for the various sites obtains a value of between 8

and 9 metres (signi cant wave height). Scaling of the wave data has shown that Hs;cut-out

could be lower for milder wave climates. Additionally, three di erent control strategies for the

survival mode system have been developed. The simulations using these strategies indicate

that a strategy combining measurements and wave forecasts has the best overall performance,

but these results rely on relatively high accuracy in the forecasting of wave heights.

Load simulations on the TLB have shown that there are still many challenges left to solve

with the survival mode system using recon guration of mooring lines. There was no clear

trend that the system is capable of reducing overall loads, which prevents any reduction in the

mass of the

oater. Nevertheless, the ndings regarding energy loss and control strategies,

which has the been the main focus of this thesis, will anyhow be valid for any survival mode

system. These results may be used further even though the current concept does not achieve

the load reductions required to bring down the material cost of the turbine.
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Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås

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