The Drop Keel Concept: an Assembly Focused Solution to Commercial Deep Water Floating Wind Turbine Development

落龙骨概念：商业深水浮式风力发电机开发的以装配为中心的解决方案

• 批准号: 105004
• 金额: $ 17.83万
• 依托单位: FLOATING ENERGY SYSTEMS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105004
• 关键词: Drop; Keel; Concept; Assembly; Focused

Wind is proving to be a commercially viable source for generating electrical power. The UK is exploiting this opportunity with its consistent wind resource using wind turbines fixed to the seabed along its coastline up to 50 metres in depth.Other coastal regions around the world are considering offshore wind turbine projects and, despite some being too deep for fixed seabed wind turbines, floating wind turbines may provide the solution.18 miles offshore Peterhead, Scotland, such a test program is in operation. Known as Hywind Scotland, the project deploys five interconnected floating turbines supplying sufficient electricity to power 20,000 UK households.The next step in development is to design floating foundation structures with commercial potential for mass production. Test level projects may then be scaled up to develop floating windfarms deploying hundreds of interconnected units supplying commercially viable electricity to the world's major coastal cities.Designs for the floating bases upon which the turbines stand remain a challenge. The Hywind floating bases must be assembled in deep water Norwegian fjords and specialist heavy lift floating cranes for construction which add to the project cost. Alternative floating base designs present different construction challenges such as large widths that make assembly and launch difficult using facilities found in typical ports. Also, the UK currently has to rely on intellectual property rights owned in the US, Norway, France and Japan to take advantage of this new technology.CPDSYS Ltd is investigating how to optimise floating wind turbine foundation design and intallation. It has developed the Drop Keel concept, a compact, shallow draft design which Atkins Engineering has analysed and identified as possessing operational performance and motion characteristics acceptable for commercial wind turbine operation. Scale model tank tests are planned with Strathclyde University for a 10MW capacity unit followed by further analysis to investigate the relationship between wave motion, aerodynamic performance and motion control systems. The objective is to produce a full scale Drop Keel foundation design protected by UK Intellectual property rights that not only supports renewable power opportunities in the UK's deeper coastal waters but also meets the demands of a global export market.CPDSYS is also investigating how the Drop Keel concept may support marginal deep water oil and gas fields by providing a source of electricity in remote marine locations that could assist with recovery of hydrocarbons similar to the way that pump jacks (nodding donkeys) power onshore oil wells.

事实证明，风是产生电力的商业上可行的来源。英国正在使用其稳定的风力涡轮机利用固定在海岸线上的风力涡轮机的稳定风力，深度为50米。世界各地的其他沿海地区都在考虑海上风力涡轮机项目，尽管有些太深了固定的海底风力涡轮机，但浮动风力涡轮机可能提供解决方案。18英里的scothead peterhead，Scothew，Scotland，Scotland，Scotland，Scotland，scotland，scotland，test Promip a test Protip。该项目被称为Hywind Scotland，部署了五个相互连接的浮动涡轮机，可为20,000英国的家庭提供足够的电力。开发的下一步是设计具有大众生产商业潜力的浮基础结构。然后可以扩大测试水平的项目，以开发部署数百个相互联系的单元的浮动风电场，可为世界上主要的沿海城市提供商业上可行的电力。设计涡轮机坚持的浮动基地的设计仍然是一个挑战。 Hywind浮动基地必须在深水挪威峡湾和专业重型升降机浮动起重机中组装，以增加项目成本。替代浮动底座设计提出了不同的构造挑战，例如较大的宽度，这些宽度使组装和使用典型端口中发现的设施变得困难。此外，英国目前必须依靠在美国，挪威，法国和日本拥有的知识产权来利用这项新技术。它已经开发了滴龙骨概念，这是一种紧凑的浅水草稿设计，Atkins Engineering已分析并确定为具有可用于商用风力涡轮机操作的操作性能和运动特性。规模模型储罐测试计划与Strathclyde University进行10MW容量单元，然后进一步分析，以研究波动运动，空气动力学性能和运动控制系统之间的关系。目的是制作一个受英国知识产权保护的全尺度下降龙骨基础设计，不仅支持英国更深的沿海水域中可再生的电力机会，而且还满足了全球出口市场的需求。 （点点头驴）电力油井。