Sessions - WindEurope Offshore 2019

Sessions

Science & Research Symposium

Science & Research

When: Wednesday, 27 November 2019, 14:00 - 18:00
Where: A12

Session description

Organised in partnership with the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE), the science and research symposium will feature science & research presentations in the areas of:Environmental impacts and maritime spatial planning; Grid integration of offshore wind; Blades; Bearings; and Foundations. The presented material has been selected for publication in a special edition of the Wind Energy Science journal

Session chair

Wei He

Principal Engineer, Equinor ASA

Nicolaos Cutululis

Professor, DTU Wind Energy

John Korsgaard

Senior Director - Engineering Excellencee, LM Wind Power

Simon Watson

Professor of Wind Energy Systems, TU Delft

Mareike Collmann

Operations Manager of the Test Centre for Support Structures, Leibniz University Hannover

14:00 - Part 1 - environmental impacts and spatial planning

Presentations

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Session chair

Wei He

Principal Engineer, Equinor ASA

14:05 - Model testing of a multi-use North Sea farm; combining offshore wind turbines with floating solar panels and seaweed farming.

Floor Spaargaren

Project Manager, MARIN - Maritime Research Institute Netherlands

14:20 - Automatic Intelligent Eagle Detection, Deterrent and Blade-Event Monitoring

Roberto Albertani

Professor, Oregon State University

14:35 - Multi-sensor detection systems pave the way for automated monitoring of bird behaviour in offshore wind farms

Henrik Skov

Senior Ecologist, DHI

14:50 - Part 2 - Grids

Presentations

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Session chair

Nicolaos Cutululis

Professor, DTU Wind Energy

14:55 - Subsea cable management: Failure trending for offshore wind

Charlotte Strang-Moran

Electrical Engineer, ORE Catapult

15:10 - North Sea region energy system towards 2050: offshore grid and sector coupling drive offshore wind installations

Matti Koivisto

Researcher, DTU Wind Energy

15:25 - DC vs AC, the battle continues

Thomas Worzyk

Senior Principal Engineer, NKT HV Cables

15:40 - Part 3 - Blades

Presentations

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Session chair

John Korsgaard

Senior Director - Engineering Excellencee, LM Wind Power

15:45 - Characterisation of the Offshore Precipitation Environment to Help Combat Leading Edge Erosion in Wind Turbine Blades

Robbie Herring

EngD Student, ORE Catapult

16:00 - Developing Blade Leading Edge Protection (LEP) Systems

Kirsten Dyer

Senior Research Engineer, Materials, ORE Catapult

16:15 - Structural validation of a recyclable thermoplastic composite wind turbine blade

Ryan Beach

Mechanical Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

16:30 - Limitations of legacy certification standards and potential benefits of new standards demonstrated on a representative 100m blade

Christopher Harrison

Principal Engineer, DNV GL

16:45 - Part 4 - Bearings

Presentations

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Session chair

Simon Watson

Professor of Wind Energy Systems, TU Delft

16:50 - Constructing fast and accurate analytical models for main-bearings in wind turbines

James Stirling

PhD Student, University of Strathclyde

17:05 - Case study of pitch bearing performance review under individual pitch control based on SCADA data from 7MW turbine

Wooyong Song

Senior Research Engineer, Bearing, ORE Catapult

17:20 - Part 5 - Foundations

Presentations

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Session chair

Mareike Collmann

Operations Manager of the Test Centre for Support Structures, Leibniz University Hannover

17:25 - Monopile lateral pile-soil interaction calibration from longterm in-situ monitoring data

Bruno Stuyts

Researcher, OWI-lab / Vrije Universiteit Brussel

17:40 - Edgewise Vibration Control of Spar-Type Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Tower using SMA based Nonlinear TMD

Arunasis Chakraborty

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

17:55 - Systems Engineering for floating wind: Developing tools for integrated design and optimization

Frank Lemmer

Research Associate, University of Stuttgart (SWE)

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