Webinar: Trends, Challenges, and Future Perspectives for Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Development
Thursday 1 September 2022
4pm – 5.30pm (AEST)
Offshore wind turbines are getting bigger every year, a trend that already helps offshore wind reduce costs all over the world. Whilst recent research suggests that costs will continue to dip as wind turbines get bigger and are deployed further offshore, the challenges to the design of the floating platform that supports the wind turbine increase.
You and your team are invited to this industry-university collaborative webinar that aims to facilitate the community’s awareness and understanding of the general trends, challenges, and future perspectives for floating offshore wind turbine development.
The webinar will present:
- An overview of the history of floating wind turbines and current design developments in Europe, and recent R&D work that tackles the design and optimisation challenges for 10MW to 25MW floating wind turbines.
- A review and analysis of scaling laws applied to the design of floating wind turbines.
- An overview of the global floating wind market perspectives and key challenges for the industry based on Saitec Offshore’s experience.
Presentation 1: Dr Erin Bachynski-Polić, Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Erin will provide an overview of the history of floating wind turbines and current design developments in Europe as well as the design and optimisation of 10MW to 25MW floating wind turbines.
Presentation 2: Dr Nataliia Sergiienko, Lecturer at the University of Adelaide
Nataliia will provide a review and analysis of scaling laws applied to the design of floating wind turbines.
Presentation 3: David Carrascosa, Director of Operations, Saitec Offshore
David will provide an overview of the global floating wind market perspectives and key challenges for the industry based on Saitec Offshore’s experience.
Q&A will follow.
Presenters
Name: Dr Erin Bachynski-Polić
Affiliation: Professor @Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dr Erin Bachynski-Polić is a professor of marine structures in the Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She holds bachelor and master’s degrees in naval architecture and marine engineering from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from NTNU, and has two years’ experience as a researcher at SINTEF Ocean. Erin’s main research areas are numerical and experimental modelling of offshore wind turbine structures, including hydroelasticity, nonlinear wave loads, structural response modelling, and optimization. Previous projects include development of numerical simulation tools for offshore wind turbines and real-time hybrid testing of a semi-submersible wind turbine.
Name: Dr Nataliia Sergiienko
Affiliation: Lecturer @University of Adelaide
Dr Nataliia Sergiienko is a lecturer in aerospace engineering in the School of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Adelaide. She received the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aerospace engineering from the National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, and the PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Nataliia is currently working on the hydrodynamic modelling and control of wave energy converters and floating offshore wind turbines.
Name: David Carrascosa
Affiliation: Director of Operations, Saitec Offshore
David Carrascosa has a Master in Civil Engineering from the University of Cantabria, Spain. He started his professional career as a structural engineer with a strong focus on structural dynamics. In 2014, he joined Saitec as Offshore Engineer becoming later the Head of the Offshore Wind Department. In 2016, David was appointed Chief Technology Officer at Saitec Offshore Technologies, the Floating Offshore Wind dedicated spin-off from Saitec’s Group. From June 2021, David holds the position of Director of Operations being part of the Board of Directors of the company.
Facilitators
Name: Dr Boyin Ding
Affiliation: Associate Professor & Deputy Director @University of Adelaide & Australia-China Joint Research Centre of Offshore Wind and Wave Energy Harnessing
Dr Boyin Ding is an associate professor in the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology, the University of Adelaide, and the deputy/executive director at the Australia-China Joint Research Centre of Offshore Wind and Wave Energy Harnessing. Boyin is a dynamic control engineer with over 15 years of research and engineering experience, recognised internationally by his research investigating robotic-based manipulating systems and ocean renewable energy systems such as wave energy converters, offshore wind turbines and their co-location/integration/hybridisation under power take-off control. His recent research concerns cost reduction of offshore wind and wave energy technologies for deployments in Australia.
Name: Professor Irene Penesis
Affiliation: Research Director, Blue Economy CRC
Professor Irene Penesis is the Research Director for the Blue Economy CRC-Co Ltd. Irene was the bid leader responsible for developing the successful application to the Commonwealth’s CRC program. Irene is on secondment from the University of Tasmania where she leads a multi-disciplinary research team working in the field of marine renewable energy and contributes to educating maritime engineering students, at the Australian Maritime College – National Centre for Maritime Engineering and Hydrodynamics.
Irene is currently leading an Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) funded project, Tidal Energy in Australia – Assessing Resource and Feasibility to Australia’s Future Energy Mix, with project partners CSIRO and UQ which started in July 2017. Irene has held several positions including Member of the MERIC Scientific International Committee since 2018, and Chair of Marine Renewable Energy Specialist Committee of the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) between 2011 and 2017, a peak international body developing technical guidelines and procedures relevant to the hydrodynamic testing of wave energy converters, marine current/tidal turbines and offshore wind turbines.
