WP6: Transport and optimization of installation, operation, and maintenance

 

Leader: Wei He, STATOIL

 

The aim of WP6 is to develop the operator’s decision support tool-box for the MUP installation, operation and maintenance. The numerical tools which will be used include:

  • the database of the crucial wind/wave and site data, and wind farm design from WP3
  • the database of the aquaculture key parameters and the aquaculture farm design from WP4,
  • a quantitative evaluation of MUP specific transport technologies and a forecast of the transport vessels access rate and landing during installation, operation and maintenance
  • the useful tools of the remote sensing technology

 

A business case will illustrate the MUP design, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning. The MUP case includes an energy extraction facility (200×5 MW wind farm), an aquaculture farm (100 km2), and marine services for MUP and public.
The synergies and the disadvantages of the MUP comparison to the offshore wind farm will be quantitatively assessed with regard to the yield, cost and impacts on the marine environment.

 

Task 6.0    Technical coordination (Leader: Wei He, STATOIL)
Task 6.1    Set-up a MUP study case (Leader: Wei He, STATOIL)
Task 6.2    MUP transport technologies for installation, operation and maintenance (Leader: Giorgio Bellotti, UR3)
Task 6.3    The synergies and the disadvantages of the MUP (Leader: Wei He, STATOIL)
Task 6.4    Integrating remote sensing technology from fixed and floating devices – aquaculture (Leader: Øivind Bergh, IMR)
Task 6.5    Decision support systems for Multi-use Offshore Platforms – numerical flow and wave models (Leader: Jan-Joost Schouten, Deltares)