ORCID
- Greaves, Deborah: 0000-0003-3906-9630
Abstract
The growth of the offshore wind industry in the last couple of decades has made this technology a key player in the maritime sector. The sustainable development of the offshore wind sector is crucial for this to consolidate within a global scenario of climate change and increasing threats to the marine environment. In this context, multipurpose platforms have been proposed as a sustainable approach to harnessing different marine resources and combining their use under the same platform. Hybrid wind-wave systems are a type of multipurpose platform where a single platform combines the exploitation of offshore wind and wave energy. In particular, this paper deals with a novel hybrid wind-wave system that integrates an oscillating water column wave energy converter with an offshore wind turbine on a jacket-frame substructure. The main objective of this paper is to characterise the hydrodynamic response of the WEC sub-system of this hybrid energy converter. A 1:50 scale model was tested under regular and irregular waves to characterise the hydrodynamic response of the WEC sub-system. The results from this analysis lead to the proof of concept of this novel hybrid system; but additionally, to characterising its behaviour and interaction with the wave field, which is a requirement for fully understanding the benefits of hybrid systems.
DOI
10.3390/en11030637
Publication Date
2018-03-13
Publication Title
Energies
Volume
11
Issue
3
ISSN
1996-1073
Organisational Unit
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
First Page
1
Last Page
20
Recommended Citation
Perez-Collazo, C., Greaves, D., & Iglesias, G. (2018) 'A Novel Hybrid Wind-Wave Energy Converter for Jacket-Frame Substructures', Energies, 11(3), pp. 1-20. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/en11030637
