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Kamarlouei, M., Gaspar, J.F., Calvário, M., Hallak, T.S., Mendes, M.J.G.C., Thiebaut, F. and Guedes Soares, C. (2022), “Experimental study of wave energy converter arrays adapted to a semi-submersible wind platform”, Renewable Energy, Vol. 188, pp. 145-163.
The design of offshore wind turbine floating platforms has, among various objectives, the aim of minimizing pitching motions to reduce large accelerations and loads on the turbine, nacelle, and blades, and so, to increase their fatigue life. However, the upscaling to more powerful wind turbines will amplify the effects of pitching motions, since the wind turbines’ height and mass will be higher. Thus, innovative solutions to control the pitching motions should be developed. This study presents a solution based on a concentric array of wave energy converters which was originally designed to be attached on a floating platform to generate wave energy. Meanwhile, it was found that the concept may provide bigger restoring moments for platforms, amplified by its lever type arms, which are useful to control the pitching motions. Thus, a wind thrust simulator has been adapted to the original experimental model and tests performed to understand the advantage of using these converters in the control of the pitching motions of a wind turbine platform. The experimental results indicate that platform motions are controllable by the wave energy converters however must be optimized to achieve better performance. These results also provide some design knowledge to test the concept at bigger rated power wind turbines.
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