PhD student in Floating Offshore wind turbines

[Jess1980]

How did you find PF?

I googled "aerodynamics forum"

Hi,

I'm doing a PhD on floating offshore wind turbines. I should be done with my PhD soon, but still need to write up quite a lot of theory and reports about experimental data.

 

[anorlunda]

Welcome to PF.

That sounds like an interesting subject. I wonder how deep it is practical to anchor a platform.

 

[Jess1980]

Hi,
in case your reply was a question, here is some quick general info on this which I read at the beginning of my PhD (so it might not be 100 % accurate): Floating platforms get interesting when the water depth exceeds 50 m. For water more shallow than this, it's better to install bottom founded wind turbines. I've heard of water depths of up to 700 m being feasible, though, the deeper you go and further away from the coast, the more expensive it gets, so the wind resource needs to be sufficiently powerful for the installation to be worth it). It also depends on the platform, SPAR type platforms need a minimum depth of 200 m.

 

[berkeman]

in case your reply was a question

Our Mentor @anorlunda is a very accomplished sailor, so I'm sure he (and I) are curious to learn more about ocean-based renewable energy state-of-the-art solutions. It's great to have you here.

Perhaps after you get comfortable with the PF and you get farther along in your PhD work, you might consider writing an Insights article for the PF about ocean-based wind farm energy production. That sounds like a very interesting article, IMO.

You can ask @anorlunda about writing Insights articles here, since he has written a number of them related to the power distribution grid, including this recent one about renewable energy sources and the grid...

https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/renewable-energy-meets-power-grid-operations/

 

[russ_watters]

Our Mentor @anorlunda is a very accomplished sailor...

Ahem - and power engineer!

 

[berkeman]

Ahem - and power engineer!

I thought that was pretty obvious from his Insights articles...

 

[Jess1980]

Our Mentor @anorlunda is a very accomplished sailor, so I'm sure he (and I) are curious to learn more about ocean-based renewable energy state-of-the-art solutions. It's great to have you here.

Perhaps after you get comfortable with the PF and you get farther along in your PhD work, you might consider writing an Insights article for the PF about ocean-based wind farm energy production. That sounds like a very interesting article, IMO.

You can ask @anorlunda about writing Insights articles here, since he has written a number of them related to the power distribution grid, including this recent one about renewable energy sources and the grid...

https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/renewable-energy-meets-power-grid-operations/

Hi,
I'm a little busy right now, trying to write up my thesis as quickly as possible. If you do want me to write something in the future, I'd need to know what the purpose of the articles is, that is what kind of public are you addressing. My work was very technical, and though I have some knowledge of what interests the general public, I certainly do not have more knowledge of what anyone could find easily on the internet, as most of my knowledge is basically coming from literature review. I did write up a somewhat interesting summary of the historic development of the use of wind energy, which summaries the content of several books (and unfortunately ended up not being very relevant to my PhD, so basically useless so far, except for satisfying my own curiosity...).

 

[anorlunda]

If you do want me to write something in the future

I agree that it would be welcome. But take your time to get used to PF first. Browse our forums. Read several threads, and look at some of our PF Insights articles. Some articles target beginners, and other articles target experts.

I see anchoring as a very interesting challenge, but also transmitting the power to shore as another big challenge.

But this is the New Member Introduction forum. We're not supposed to conduct technical discussions here.