| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L10987/01 |
| Title: |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH TOOLS FOR OFFSHORE WINDFARM IMPLEMENTATION |
| Principal Investigator: |
Patel, Professor H |
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Mechanical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
UCL |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 July 1996 |
Ends: |
31 December 1999 |
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142,058
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This proposal is focused on development of the basic research tools which are needed to investigate offshore wind energy. A secondary objective is to apply the tools developed to a particularly novel and economically promising configuration. The offshore environment is now being seriously considered as a means of widening the implementation of wind energy. However, nearly all of the basic research and tool development has understandably concentrated on land based (rigid founded) turbines. Furthermore, where offshore related work has been undertaken it has usually focused on environmental rather than technical issues. The primary objective of this proposal is to address these general technical issues which are important when operating wind turbines on flexible and yawing (floating) foundations. Of course, a fixed foundation situation is just one special case of this and so the tools developed will be downgradable to this situation.
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