Offshore wind farm service vessel, hull design optimisation
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2012-10
Authors
Shanley, Matthew
Murphy, Jimmy
Molloy, Padraig
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International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE)
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Abstract
Access to a wind turbine is a major issue, currently there is a 1.5m significant wave height (Hs) limit for the standard “step over” method for transferring personnel to an offshore wind turbine. According to the Carbon Trust being able to access, wind turbines at a wave height of 3m would be worth ₤3 billion to the offshore wind industry. The current research addresses this issue by examining a novel multihull design concept for an Offshore Wind Farm Service Vessel. The objective of this work is to carry out a feasibility study of the proposed design as previous research indicated that the design reduces the heave and pitch motions by dampening its response to the wave motion. The proposed design is analysed with both hydrostatic and hydrodynamic analysis using the computational fluid dynamic (CFD) package ANSYS CFX. Also to be undertaken is physical model testing of the analysed design in the National Ocean Test Facility’s wave basin to determine the accuracy of the computational analysis.
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Offshore wind , Operation and maintenance , Personnel transfer , Wind farm service vessel , Offshore wind farm service vessel , Hull design optimisation , Crew transfer vessel , CTV , WFSV
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Shanley, M., Murphy, J. and Molloy, P. (2012) 'Offshore wind farm service vessel, hull design optimisation', 4th International Conference on Ocean Energy, Dublin, 17-19 October.
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© 2012 The Authors.