- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Related titles
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
- Acknowledgments
- Part One. Introduction to offshore wind energy and offshore wind farm siting
- Part Two. Wind turbine components and design
- 5. Developments in materials for offshore wind turbine blades
- 6. Design of offshore wind turbine blades
- 7. Wind turbine gearbox design with drivetrain dynamic analysis
- 8. Design of generators for offshore wind turbines
- 8.1. Introduction: key issues in generator design
- 8.2. Electrical generators: types and principles of operation
- 8.3. Practical design and manufacture of electrical generators
- 8.4. Selection of generators for offshore wind turbines
- 8.5. Future trends in offshore wind turbine generators
- Sources of further information
- 9. Modelling of power electronic components for evaluation of efficiency, power density and power-to-mass ratio of offshore wind power converters
- 10. Design of offshore wind turbine towers
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Function and types of towers
- 10.3. Standards of reference
- 10.4. Design spiral process and loads' analysis
- 10.5. Shell and flange sizing
- 10.6. Secondary steel, other structure details, and coatings
- 10.7. Optimization considerations
- 10.8. Final remarks
- Glossary
- List of symbols
- List of greek symbols
- 11. Design of floating offshore wind turbines
- Part Three. Integration of wind farms into power grids
- 12. Offshore wind farm arrays
- 12.1. Fundamentals of offshore wind farm arrays
- 12.2. Design considerations
- 12.3. Main electrical components
- 12.4. Topologies
- 12.5. Converter interface arrangements and collector design
- 12.6. Wake farm arrangement – wake effects
- 12.7. Control objectives
- 12.8. Collector design procedure
- Abbreviations
- 13. Cabling to connect offshore wind turbines to onshore facilities
- 14. Integration of power from offshore wind turbines into onshore grids
- 15. Energy storage for offshore wind farms
- 16. Hydropower flexibility and transmission expansion to support integration of offshore wind
- 12. Offshore wind farm arrays
- Part Four. Installation and operation of offshore wind farms
- 17. Assembly, transportation, installation and commissioning of offshore wind farms
- 18. Condition monitoring of offshore wind turbines
- 18.1. Reliability of offshore wind turbines
- 18.2. Challenges in offshore wind turbine operation and maintenance
- 18.3. Offshore wind turbine condition monitoring techniques
- 18.4. Offshore wind turbine condition monitoring systems
- 18.5. Signal processing techniques used for WT CM
- 18.6. Existing issues and future tendencies of WT CM
- 19. Health and safety of offshore wind farms
- 20. Offshore wind turbine foundations – analysis and design
- 20.1. Foundation options for offshore wind-turbine structures
- 20.2. System of loading on offshore foundations
- 20.3. General aspects of OWT monopile foundation system
- 20.4. Offshore design codes and methods
- 20.5. Investigation of monopile–soil behaviour
- 20.6. Design of OWT foundation
- 20.7. Future outlook and research needs
- Nomenclature
- Abbreviations
- Index
Acknowledgments
Dr Chong Ng would like to expresses his sincere gratitude to the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, Mr. Ignacio Marti for allowing him the time and resources to work on this book. He is extremely grateful for the support given by Mr. David Southern, Mr. Hyunjoo Lee, Mr. Jonathan Hughes, Dr. Kirsten Dyer, and Mr. Tony Fong with their specialist knowledge in the reviewing process.
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