Feasibility Study of a Novel Open Ocean Aquaculture Ship Integrating with a Wind Turbine and an Internal Turret Mooring System

Marine aquaculture has been expanded into more remote areas due to the increasing demand for high value-added fish products, bringing challenges in fuel supply and mooring safety open ocean farms. Therefore, idea of integrating farms with offshore renewable energy attracted tremendous interest. This study proposes a novel ship integrated NREL 5 MW wind turbine. In addition, an internal turret system is installed at bow ship, making turbine always face blowing direction weathervaning effect. this study, preliminary dynamics power generation proposed was conducted. The aerodynamic elastic effects effect nets under wave current behavior on single-point moored were investigated. Furthermore, also studied investigate feasibility integrate