Abstract
As offshore wind turbines are moving to deeper water depths, mooring systems are becoming more and more significant for floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs). Mooring line failures could affect power generations of FOWTs and ultimately incur risk to nearby structures. Among different failure mechanics, an excessive mooring line tension is one of the most essential factors contributing to mooring failure. Even advanced sensing offers an effective way of failure detections, but it is still difficult to comprehend why failures happened. Unlike traditional parametric studies that are computational and time-intensive, this paper applies deep learning to investigate the major driven force on the mooring line tension. A number of environmental conditions are considered, ranging from cut in to cut out wind speeds. Before formatting input data into the deep learning model, a FOWT model of dynamics was simulated under pre-defined environmental conditions. Both taut and slack mooring configurations were considered in the current study. Results showed that the most loaded mooring line tension was mainly determined by the surge motion, regardless of mooring line configurations, while the blade and the tower elasticity were less significant in predicting mooring line tension.
Highlights
Renewable energy is clean and environmentally friendly, which plays a crucial role in decreasing global carbon emissions [1]
This study developed a novel mothed based on deep learning to study the inherent driven force on mooring line tensions
This paper studies the driven force of mooring line tension based on an advanced AHSE model and deep learning, taking into account different environmental conditions
Summary
Renewable energy is clean and environmentally friendly, which plays a crucial role in decreasing global carbon emissions [1]. Among different types of renewables, wind energy is one of the most fast-growing sectors [2]. In the UK, the renewable share of electricity generations has been continuously increasing in the past few years, where wind energy has dominated the share of electricity generations since 2011 [3]. Due to the evolution of wind turbines, the price of electricity generated from offshore wind is becoming less and less expensive. Under these circumstances, the possibility has been improved to meet the UK government’s target on replacing traditional energy supply with renewable energy.
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