REFOS: A Renewable Energy Multi-Purpose Floating Offshore System

Dimitrios N. Konispoliatis, Georgios M. Katsaounis, Dimitrios I. Manolas, Takvor H. Soukissian, Stylianos Polyzos, Thomas P. Mazarakos, Spyros G. Voutsinas and Spyridon A. Mavrakos
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Dimitrios N. Konispoliatis: Laboratory for Floating Structures and Mooring Systems, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Avenue, GR 157-73 Athens, Greece
Georgios M. Katsaounis: Laboratory for Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Avenue, GR 157-73 Athens, Greece
Dimitrios I. Manolas: Laboratory of Aerodynamics, School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Avenue, GR 157-73 Athens, Greece
Takvor H. Soukissian: Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, GR 190-13 Anavyssos, Greece
Stylianos Polyzos: Laboratory for Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Avenue, GR 157-73 Athens, Greece
Thomas P. Mazarakos: Department of Naval Architecture, University of West Attica, GR 122-43 Egaleo, Greece
Spyros G. Voutsinas: Laboratory of Aerodynamics, School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Avenue, GR 157-73 Athens, Greece
Spyridon A. Mavrakos: Laboratory for Floating Structures and Mooring Systems, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Avenue, GR 157-73 Athens, Greece

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-28

Abstract: The present paper deals with the development of a multi-purpose floating tension leg platform (TLP) concept suitable for the combined offshore wind and wave energy resources exploitation, taking into account the prevailing environmental conditions at selected locations along the European coastline. The examined Renewable Energy Multi-Purpose Floating Offshore System (REFOS) platform encompasses an array of hydrodynamically interacting oscillating water column (OWC) devices, moored through tensioned tethers as a TLP platform supporting a 10 MW wind turbine (WT). The system consists of a triangular platform supported by cylindrical floaters, with the WT mounted at the deck’s center and the cylindrical OWC devices at its corners. Details of the modelling of the system are discussed and hydro-aero-elastic coupling between the floater; the mooring system; and the WT is presented. The analysis incorporates the solutions of the diffraction; the motion- and the pressure-dependent radiation problems around the moored structure, along with the aerodynamics of the WT into an integrated design approach validated through extensive experimental hydrodynamic scaled-down model tests. The verified theoretical results attest to the importance of the WT loading and the OWC characteristics on the dynamics of the system.

Keywords: floating offshore wind turbine; oscillating water column devices; TLP; coupled hydro-aero-elastic analysis; European coastline; experimental model tests (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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