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Floating wind turbines: marine operations challenges and opportunities
Rahul Chitteth Ramachandran
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
MaREI Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Cian Desmond
Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions Ltd., Dublin, Ireland
Frances Judge
MaREI Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Jorrit-Jan Serraris
Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Jimmy Murphy
MaREI Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Marine operations represent a significant proportion of costs involved in the installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning phases of a floating wind farm. The floating-wind industry is reaching array-scale deployments, and it is very important to optimize the various marine operations involved in each of these phases. This paper analyses the various challenges in the path and opportunities for encountering them by the transfer of technical know-how from similar offshore sectors.
Marine operations represent a significant proportion of costs involved in the installation,...
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