The use of floating offshore wind farms for electrical energy supply is expected to rise significantly over the coming years. Suspended inter-array power cables are a new design to connect floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) with shorter cable le...
The suspended configuration of inter-array power cables between floating offshore wind turbines necessitates using various ancillary equipment, such as buoy elements and bend stiffeners, to maintain the desired cable geometry. The failure analysis is...
The current power cables IEC standards do not provide adequate recommendations for after-laying testing and diagnosis of offshore export and inter-array power cables. However the standards IEEE 400 and IEEE 400.4 recommend partial discharge monitored...
The reliability of an offshore wind farm (OWF) depends strongly on the export and inter-array cable installations. AC export cables (EXCs) are typically up to 120 km long and operate at voltages ranging from 220 to 275 kV. The newest inter-array cabl...
Offshore wind farms (OWFs) have a high utilization potential; however, their initial investment cost is very high. This study proposes a binary integer programming-based optimization framework for designing OWF inter-array systems. To alleviate the c...
The present study evaluates the feasibility of using a fully suspended inter-array cable system for an offshore wind farm. It includes both numerical simulations and a scaled-down experiment, conducted at a 1:49 scale, to validate the numerical resul...
Floating offshore wind is now receiving much attention as an expansion to bottom-fixed, especially in deep waters with large wind resources. In this regard, improving the performance and efficiency of floating offshore wind farms (FOWFs) is currently...
With wind turbines increasing in size, installed at greater distances from the mainland, and greater depths, submarine cables are facing new challenges. Materials and technologies used so far for the production of submarine cables with lead, aluminiu...
The exploitation and harnessing of offshore marine renewable energy have led to an increased demand for reliable marine power cables with long service lives. These cables constitute a considerable share of the total installation cost of offshore rene...
The collection grid represents a relevant share of the total initial investments into a wind power plant. Planning/optimizing collection grids is a task that grows severely in complexity according to the size of the analyzed plant, i.e., its number o...
Power cables transmit electricity from offshore wind turbines (OWTs) to consumers. The configuration, design, and optimization of power cables for floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are subject to various objectives, variables, and constraints....
Large scale offshore wind farms are relatively new infrastructures and are being deployed in regions prone to earthquakes. Offshore wind farms comprise of both offshore wind turbines (OWTs) and balance of plants (BOP) facilities, such as inter-array...
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems capture complex, nonlinear wave propagation across fiber-optic cables. Conventional event classification architectures, constrained by static physical topologies or isolated spatial grids, fail to effectivel...