Integrated Design Optimization of Offshore Support Structure

Autor: ZHOU Yiming, LI Xiaoyong, CHEN Xiaoqing
Jazyk: English<br />Chinese
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: 南方能源建设, Vol 6, Iss 4, Pp 86-92 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2095-8676
DOI: 10.16516/j.gedi.issn2095-8676.2019.04.014
Popis: [Introduction] Currently the SIA (Sequential Iterated Approach) method and process are used in China′s offshore wind projects bidding stage. The wind turbine manufacture usually presents the tower′s design and guarantees the quantity. The whole support structure is hardly the lightest design. This paper aims to present the IDO (Integrated Design Approach) to search for the global optimum for the whole support structure. It also suggests that the wind turbine manufacture and the design institute could present the whole design plan together in the bidding stage to find the global optimum and reduce the offshore LCoE (Levelized Cost of Energy). [Method] To investigate the mechanisms of IDO, this paper compared the results of 18 designs with different tower bottom diameters and monopile diameters. [Result] The results we obtained demonstrate that by IDO the mass of the whole support structure is greatly lighter than the lightest tower design which is obtained by SIA. [Conclusion] This work provides some guidance for the further offshore wind project bidding plan. To reduce the LCoE of offshore wind projects, the IDO method and process could be adopted to obtain the feasible solution with the lightest whole support structure design.
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