Conference paper
Concept Testing of a Simple Floating Offshore Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark1
Test and Measurements, Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark2
Aeroelastic Design, Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark3
Wind Turbines, Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark4
Aalborg University5
Vestas Wind Systems AS6
The wind energy community is researching new concepts for deeper sea offshore wind turbines. One such concept is the DeepWind concept. The concept is being assessed in a EU-FP7 project, called DeepWind. Objectives of this project are to assess large size wind turbines (5-20MW) based on the concept. One task in the project is to test a 1kW concept rotor (not a scaled down MW size rotor) partly under field conditions in a fjord in Denmark, partly in a water tank under controlled conditions in Netherlands.
The objective of testing the 1kW concept turbine is to verify the dynamical behaviour under varying wind and wave conditions, and to compare such behaviour with computer code calculations. The concept turbine was designed and constructed by the project task partners, and all parts were assembled and installed at sea in the Roskilde fjord right next to DTU Risø campus.
The turbine is under a testing program of which the initial tests have been completed, and a testing program with various wind and wave conditions are being carried out. The design ideas and the offshore implementation will be demonstrated, and some of the initial testing results of the testing program will be shown.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) |
Year: | 2013 |
Pages: | 959-966 |
Proceedings: | European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition 2013 |
Types: | Conference paper |
ORCIDs: | Schmidt Paulsen, Uwe and Aagaard Madsen, Helge |