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Floating Offshore Wind Farms

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Editors:
  1. Laura Castro-Santos

    1. Universidade da Coruña, Departamento de Enxeñaría Naval e Oceáni, A Coruña, Spain

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  2. Vicente Diaz-Casas

    1. Universidade da Coruña, Departamento de Enxeñaría Naval e Oceáni, Ferrol, Spain

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  • Provides a new perspective on floating offshore wind farms
  • Focuses on the economic aspects of this renewable-energy technology
  • Presents economic maps demonstrating the main costs involved
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Present and Future of Floating Offshore Wind

    • Sara Ferreño González, Vicente Diaz-Casas
    Pages 1-22

  3. Life-Cycle Cost of a Floating Offshore Wind Farm

    • Laura Castro-Santos
    Pages 23-38

  4. Economic Feasibility of Floating Offshore Wind Farms

    • Laura Castro-Santos
    Pages 39-51

  5. Floating Offshore Wind Platforms

    • E. Uzunoglu, D. Karmakar, C. Guedes Soares
    Pages 53-76

  6. CFD Applied to Floating Offshore Wind Energy

    • M. I. Lamas, C. G. Rodríguez
    Pages 77-87

  7. Mooring and Anchoring

    • Raúl Rodríguez Arias, Álvaro Rodríguez Ruiz, Verónica González de Lena Alonso
    Pages 89-119

  8. Resource Assessment Methods in the Offshore Wind Energy Sector

    • N. Salvação, C. Guedes Soares
    Pages 121-141

  9. A Spatiotemporal Methodology for Deep Offshore Resource Assessment

    • Ana Estanqueiro, António Couto, Luis Rodrigues Jr.
    Pages 143-160

  10. Tools for Ocean Energy Maritime Spatial Planning

    • Paulo Costa, Teresa Simões, Ana Estanqueiro
    Pages 161-179

  11. Operation and Maintenance of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

    • Fernando P. Santos, Ângelo P. Teixeira, Carlos Guedes Soares
    Pages 181-193
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About this book

This book provides an overview of floating offshore wind farms and focuses on the economic aspects of this renewable-energy technology. It presents economic maps demonstrating the main costs, and explores various important aspects of floating offshore wind farms. It examines topics including offshore wind turbines, floating offshore wind platforms, mooring and anchoring, as well as offshore electrical systems. It is a particularly useful resource in light of the fact that most water masses are deep and therefore not suitable for fixed offshore wind farms. A valuable reference work for students and researchers interested in naval and ocean engineering and economics, this book provides a new perspective on floating offshore wind farms, and makes a useful contribution to the existing literature.


Reviews

“This new book … explores the safe and economical extension of this technology far into the ocean, which is believed to be a major source of renewable energy. … a number of valuable references are presented for those who may require further, relevant material on the subject. This title is an excellent reference for research on wind power and a valuable tool for a course on renewable energy. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals and practitioners.” (J. Tavakoli, Choice, Vol. 54 (2), October, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidade da Coruña, Departamento de Enxeñaría Naval e Oceáni, A Coruña, Spain

    Laura Castro-Santos

  • Universidade da Coruña, Departamento de Enxeñaría Naval e Oceáni, Ferrol, Spain

    Vicente Diaz-Casas

About the editors

Laura Castro-Santos obtained the title of Industrial Engineering (Energy) in 2009 and her PhD in Industrial Engineering at the Naval and Oceanic Engineering Department in 2013 from the University of A Coruña, where she is currently working as Lecturer in the Department of Naval and Oceanic Engineering. Her current research activities are focused on technical and economic analysis of offshore energy, particularly the floating offshore wind energy. She has collaborated on several research projects focused on mooring and anchoring of offshore renewable energy devices and on the development of the roadmap of the offshore renewable energies in Portugal. She has participated in several international research exchanges: National Energy Laboratory (LNEG), and Centro de Engenharia e Tecnologia Naval (CENTEC) of the University of Lisbon, both in Lisbon (Portugal). She has assisted to a great quantity of teaching and offshore renewable energy courses and international conferences. She haswon the research prize “González-Llanos” of naval engineering. 


Vicente Diaz-Casas is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Naval and Oceanic Engineering of the University of A Coruña (Spain). His academic and research activities have been strongly linked to the Engineering School of the University of A Coruña (Spain). He received his Master in Naval Architecture and Marine and Offshore Engineering from that university and his Ph.D in Mathematical Methods and Numerical Simulation in Engineering and Applied Sciences through an interuniversity program of University of Santiago de Compostela, University of Vigo and University of A Coruña. He has participated in several international and national research exchanges: Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (Sardinia, Italy), University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand), Instituto Superior Tecnico, (Lisbon, Portugal), Polytechnic University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain) and CEHIPAR,Towing tank and ship hydrodynamics laboratory of the Spanish Government (Madrid, Spain). He has worked closely with industry; in fact he is currently the coordinator the Naval Architecture division of the Research Group. He has participated in a high number of multidisciplinary and border line research projects. In his research he has combined different approaches and knowledge areas with topics such as artificial intelligent (artificial neural networks and evolutionary computation), computational fluid dynamics, mechanical design and control systems. However his main research topics are ship design and floating structures simulation. Right now his research is focused on simulation and design of floating platform for offshore wind turbines.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Floating Offshore Wind Farms

  • Editors: Laura Castro-Santos, Vicente Diaz-Casas

  • Series Title: Green Energy and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27972-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27970-1Published: 14 March 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80250-3Published: 25 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27972-5Published: 05 March 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1865-3529

  • Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 193

  • Number of Illustrations: 103 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Systems, Environmental Economics, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Oceanography

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