1. Large-Scale Experiments to Improve Monopile Scour Protection Design Adapted to Climate Change—The PROTEUS Project
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Dogan Kisacik, Alexander Schendel, Viktoria Szengel, Richard J. S. Whitehouse, Vasiliki Stratigaki, Minghao Wu, Carlos Arboleda Chavez, David Todd, Torsten Schlurmann, Leen De Vos, Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa, Leen Baelus, Peter Troch, Paulo Rosa Santos, Mario Welzel, Annelies Bolle, Raul Villanueva, Francisco Taveira Pinto, and Faculdade de Engenharia
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Control and Optimization ,Technology and Engineering ,Scale (ratio) ,020209 energy ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,Context (language use) ,Engineering and technology ,02 engineering and technology ,laboratory tests ,Turbine ,lcsh:Technology ,sediment transport ,erosion patterns ,waves-current interaction ,Benchmark (surveying) ,ddc:551 ,Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,optical measurements ,FAILURE ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Wave–current interaction ,spatial resolution ,wave-current interaction ,wide-graded materials ,offshore wind farm ,scour ,large scale experiments ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,lcsh:T ,jacket ,Technological sciences, Engineering and technology ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,offshore wind turbines ,scour protection damage ,climate change conditions ,acoustic measurements ,Current (stream) ,Offshore wind power ,Flow conditions ,Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::551 | Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ,Ciências Tecnológicas, Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias ,Environmental science ,0210 nano-technology ,Energy (miscellaneous) ,Marine engineering - Abstract
This study aims to improve the design of scour protection around offshore wind turbine monopiles, as well as future-proofing them against the impacts of climate change. A series of large-scale experiments have been performed in the context of the European HYDRALAB-PLUS PROTEUS (Protection of offshore wind turbine monopiles against scouring) project in the Fast Flow Facility in HR Wallingford. These experiments make use of state of the art optical and acoustic measurement techniques to assess the damage of scour protections under the combined action of waves and currents. These novel PROTEUS tests focus on the study of the grading of the scour protection material as a stabilizing parameter, which has never been done under the combined action of waves and currents at a large scale. Scale effects are reduced and, thus, design risks are minimized. Moreover, the generated data will support the development of future scour protection designs and the validation of numerical models used by researchers worldwide. The testing program objectives are: (i) to compare the performance of single-layer wide-graded material used against scouring with current design practices; (ii) to verify the stability of the scour protection designs under extreme flow conditions; (iii) to provide a benchmark dataset for scour protection stability at large scale; and (iv) to investigate the scale effects on scour protection stability.
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- 2019