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NEW CONCEPTS FOR INSTALLING WINDTURBINES OFFSHORE
NEW CONCEPTS FOR INSTALLING WINDTURBINES OFFSHORE
all-in-one offshore turbine installations
les installations éoliennes offshore tout compris
Dolf Elsevier van Griethuysen
Ballast Nedam Offshore Energy
Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
Marseille, Jeudi 19 Mars 2009
Co authors
Edwin van de Brug
Marcel van Bergen
Jurjan Blokland
Ballast Nedam Offshore
Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
NEW CONCEPTS FOR INSTALLING WINDTURBINES OFFSHORE
Tradition in developping installation concepts:HLV Svanen installing Confederation Bridge, Canada
Tradition in developping installation concepts:HLV Svanen installing Wind turbine Foundations at Egmond, NL
Tradition in developping installation concepts:HLV Svanen installing Wind turbine Foundations at Egmond, NL
Tradition in developing installation concepts:HLV Svanen installing Wind turbine Foundations in UK
And also a tradition in installing gravity based foundations
HLV Svanen installing offshore wind farm foundations:
• 2006: 36 x at Egmond, The Netherlands
• 2008: 25 x at Rhyl Flats, UK
• 2008/2009: 32 x at Gunfleet Sands, UK
• 2010: 22 x at Baltic I, Germany
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Present Concepts
for
installing Windturbines
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Present Windturbine installation method
Other concepts in development
The Challenges
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Challenges in the emerging market of offshore wind:
• political, financial and logistic constraints,
• grid access,
• weather conditions,
• increasing water depths.
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Challenges in the emerging market of offshore wind:
• political, financial and logistic constraints,
• grid access,
• weather conditions,
• increasing water depths.
And:
• more powerful and lager turbines
• with the subsequent need for larger installation equipment
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Technical challenge I
The concept of present-day installation equipment, mainly jack-ups, is limited by its own inherent contradiction:
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Technical challenge I
The concept of present-day installation equipment, mainly jack-ups, is limited by its own inherent contradiction:
• on the one hand lifting capacity should be as extensive as possible
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Technical challenge I
The concept of present-day installation equipment, mainly jack-ups, is limited by its own inherent contradiction:
• on the one hand lifting capacity should be as extensive as possible
• on the other hand the soil pressure of the legs should be kept as low as possible.
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
The Jack Up internal constraint: lifting capacity vs leg pressure
The Jack Up internal Constraint: lifting capacity vs leg pressure
Technical Challenge II
For the installation of some of today’s largest offshore turbines, a one-lift concept has been successfully used, involving the deployment of a floating crane
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Technical Challenge II
For the installation of some of today’s largest offshore turbines, a one-lift concept has been successfully used, involving the deployment of a floating crane
Still, operations remain time-consuming and weather, wave and wind-sensitive.
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
The first all-in-one offshore turbine lift, Beatrice, UK
Using a Sheer Leg or an A-frame has the disadvantage of ‘multiplying effects’ on the movement of the vessel, or barge in larger displacements of the load carried by the hook of the crane.
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Using a Sheer Leg or an A-frame has the disadvantage of ‘multiplying effects’ on the movement of the vessel, or barge in larger displacements of the load carried by the hook of the crane.
Lifting the load in the centre of gravity of the crane vessel will substatially reduce this effect
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Displacements standard Sheerleg or Crane Vessel
Displacements when load is in centre of gravity
In order to meet the need for suitable and efficient equipment in installing increasingly larger and powerful turbines, new concepts have to be developed if the offshore wind energy sector wishes to contribute to the European targets set with respect to renewable energy.
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
In the floating crane concept optimum use can be made of water forces.
• A solution should be sought to maintain maximum stability combined with maximum lifting capacity, as required.
• And the problem to be solved is how to control acceleration forces at ‘touch-down’,
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Ballast Nedam has developed a concept to control touch-down operations in a one-lift concpt with a floating crane.
The result is a combination of a soft-landing and holding device.
The principle behind the controlled operation is that before touch-down the tower will be indirectly connected to the foundation with a device that introduces a pre-stressed connection which compensates the accelerations during touch-down.
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Thus, it is possible to install the heaviest and largest wind turbines in one single controlled and wave-independent operation.
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
The greatest advantage demonstrated by our concept is not primarily formed by the mere installation costs themselves,
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
The greatest advantage demonstrated by our concept is not primarily formed by the mere installation costs themselves,
but much rather the fundamental fact that the one-lift concept is actually possible and feasible;
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
The greatest advantage demonstrated by our concept is not primarily formed by the mere installation costs themselves,
but much rather the fundamental fact that the one-lift concept is actually possible and feasible;
that the entire commissioning and testing process can be completed onshore,
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
The greatest advantage demonstrated by our concept is not primarily formed by the mere installation costs themselves,
but much rather the fundamental fact that the one-lift concept is actually possible and feasible;
that the entire commissioning and testing process can be completed onshore,
and finally that we have decreased the number of weather, wave and wind-sensitive operations to be held offshore.
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
This presents a truly revolutionary step in risk mitigation
and thus in cutting back overall costs
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Ballast Nedam
Innovation:
The One Lift Concept
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
PRESS RELEASE Ballast Nedam, 13 March 2009
“BN has developed a frame that enables the heavy lift vessel Svanen to pick up complete heavy windmills in the harbour, transport them to the offshore location, and then install them on site.
This development renders unnecessary the assembly of wind turbines from multiple modules in expensive and risky offshore time.”
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Technical details
Technical details
Technical details
AnimationOne Lift Concept
Another and recent Innovation:
The Drilled Concrete Monopile
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
PRESS RELEASE Ballast Nedam, 13 March 2009:
“The technical feasibility of a drilled prefabricated concrete pile as an offshore wind turbine foundation has been demonstrated.
The advantages of this foundation are:
• Reduced noise levels (no percussion),
• lower manufacturing costs,
• greater price stability of concrete compared with steel.”
New concepts for installing Windturbines Offshore
Drilled (concrete) monopiles, based on existing technologies
(Drilled) concrete monopiles, based on existing technologies
The pile will be built up from vertically poured ring elements which are stored vertical to avoid ovalization and are assembled horizontally.
Drilling and installing of a concrete monopile
Step 10: Continue drilling until target level is reached.
Drilling and installing of a concrete monopile with HLV Svanen
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NEW CONCEPTS FOR INSTALLING WINDTURBINES OFFSHORE
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