DNV has secured companions to launch a brand new undertaking to boost expertise improvement and put together for scale/industralisation of concrete substructures for floating offshore wind.
With the launch of a brand new joint business undertaking (JIP), known as Concrete FLOW, DNV goals to optimise necessities for concrete floaters, particularly tailor-made for floating offshore wind farms.
The undertaking encompasses concrete buildings, geotechnics, and floating applied sciences.
At a current kick-off assembly, 14 companions dedicated to redefining international requirements for the manufacturing of concrete floaters within the offshore wind business. The collaborative outcomes are earmarked for incorporation into future DNV service paperwork.
“This initiative symbolizes a collaborative effort to set new requirements and problem present ones, laying the groundwork for the way forward for floating wind. We have now engaged with 30 corporations to debate this initiative…,” mentioned Kim Sandgaard-Mørk, Government Vice President for Renewables Certification at DNV.
DNV mentioned that it sees concrete floaters as a cheap and environmentally pleasant various to metal floaters, significantly for bigger wind turbine sizes.
The organisation added that refinements to design provisions ought to improve materials effectivity whereas sustaining the traditionally strong efficiency of offshore concrete buildings.
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JIP’s major goal is to boost normal necessities, customizing them for industrial manufacturing to allow serial manufacturing, considerably decreasing prices and streamlining the manufacturing course of, mentioned DNV.
“Whereas the DNV-ST-0119 normal contains design provisions for concrete floaters, some necessities draw from oil and fuel expertise and others from backside mounted wind farms; they want refinement and optimization for use particularly for floating offshore wind developments”, mentioned Stefan Baars, Renewables Certification Head of Part for Concrete Buildings & Geotechnics at DNV.
“The undertaking will choose sizzling subjects to analyze as work packages, in order to replace and refine the concrete design provisions in DNV-ST-0119.”
The staff expects to conduct actions over a interval of 1 and a half to 2 years.
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