Floating Offshore Vertical Axis Wind Turbines: Opportunities, Challenges and Way Forward
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چکیده
The offshore wind sector is expanding to deep water locations through floating platforms. This poses challenges horizontal axis turbines (HAWTs) due the ever growing size of blades and support structures. As such, maintaining structural integrity reducing levelised cost energy (LCoE) HAWTs seems increasingly difficult. An alternative these could be found in vertical (VAWTs). It known that VAWTs have certain advantages over HAWTs, fact, some small-scale developers successfully commercialised their onshore prototypes. In contrast, it remains unknown whether can offer an advantage for farms. Therefore, here we present a multi-criteria review different aspects address this question. farm power density reliability decisive factors make feasible arrays. Finally, propose way forward based on findings review.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Energies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1996-1073']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en14238000