It is now widely accepted that, due to significant economies of scale, the levelized cost of energy in offshore wind industry decreases as the turbine size and rated power increases. For offshore wind turbines, fixed and floating foundations can be quite complimentary when sites span a large water depth range. This paper presents the new WindFloat semisubmersible design supporting a 10MW generic wind turbine made by DTU [1]. This study evaluates the initial global performance of the WindFloat 10MW hull. In addition, RAO and frequency domain accelerations at the nacelle are presented. A comparison of the OpenFAST model, that we plan to use in all the future analysis, will be conducted against the benchmarked OrcaFAST model used by PPI and validated against the WindFloat prototype [2].
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ASME 2018 1st International Offshore Wind Technical Conference
November 4–7, 2018
San Francisco, California, USA
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- Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5197-5
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Global Sizing of the WindFloat for a 10 MW Generic Wind Turbine Available to Purchase
Daewoong Son,
Daewoong Son
Principle Power, Inc., Emeryville, CA
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Romain Pinguet,
Romain Pinguet
Principle Power, Inc., Emeryville, CA
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Dominique Roddier
Dominique Roddier
Principle Power, Inc., Emeryville, CA
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Daewoong Son
Principle Power, Inc., Emeryville, CA
Romain Pinguet
Principle Power, Inc., Emeryville, CA
Dominique Roddier
Principle Power, Inc., Emeryville, CA
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IOWTC2018-1104, V001T01A035; 7 pages
Published Online:
December 13, 2018
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Son, D, Pinguet, R, & Roddier, D. "Global Sizing of the WindFloat for a 10 MW Generic Wind Turbine." Proceedings of the ASME 2018 1st International Offshore Wind Technical Conference. ASME 2018 1st International Offshore Wind Technical Conference. San Francisco, California, USA. November 4–7, 2018. V001T01A035. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IOWTC2018-1104
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