With the increasing size of offshore structures, wind loads are becoming more and more important when designing vessels for operational conditions. For some locations, the wind may be the predominant load factor. There are several ways to determine the wind loads of typical vessels. A dramatic growth in computing power has meant that Computational Fluid
The Dutch tv program Het Klokhuis made an interesting broadcast about the 'floating future': a unique floating island concept that MARIN tested in their Offshore basin. Living and working in the middle of the sea, on a floating island, in the future, that might be quite common. But what if it storms, won't it
SPOWTT project provides fresh insight into ship motions, improving the wellbeing of technicians. The recently completed ‘Improving the Safety and Productivity of Offshore Wind Technician Transit’ (SPOWTT) project focused on improving the health and safety of technicians by developing models for a decision-support tool, assisting the shore operator in the ‘go/no go’ decision. Both
In the 5 Podcast, Thomas Loudon investigates issues and solutions that create a more sustainable world one step at the time. In this episode he focusses on noise pollution in the ocean. Just because we don’t hear much when we stick our heads in the water, doesn’t mean that there isn’t sound there. In
Crew Transfer Vessels (CTV) are essential for the maintenance of offshore wind turbines. Their high speed operation in waves can benefit from an innovative onboard wave radar, coupled with motion prediction. Figure 1 Wave observations with new radar in range 0-250m Predictions are done by combining measured wave profiles forward of the ship with wave
MARIN, Deltares and Bureau Veritas Group are starting the HAWA-III JIP (Shallow Water Initiative) which focuses on near shore terminals and their sensitivity to infragravity waves. The inclusion of infragravity waves in the terminal design is challenging and practical tools and guidelines will be delivered to cope with this. In addition the effectiveness of
Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion (WASP) is one of the methods available to help the shipping world reduce its reliance on (fossil) fuel and thereby enable a zero emission future. Of course this goes together with simply saving energy through measures such as having the main dimension and hull form optimised for actual operational conditions, efficient
POWER THE FUTURE Bringing sustainable energy into production, storage, power and motion The maritime industry will come together again in 2021, with the FPSO JIP Week and the BlueWeek set to be held between May 31-June 4. All activities will be live streamed to reach out to you wherever you are on our blue planet.
MARIN supports the development of offshore wind maintenance vessels - from concept to operation. Operation and maintenance costs make up around 20-30% of the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) of offshore wind energy, and a considerable part of this relates to the vessel and its ability to work. We can distinguish two main types of
On January 21, MARIN measured the severe wind conditions across the ECT Delta terminal in Rotterdam in combination with the motions and mooring line loads of MSC CHLOE, a 10,000 TEU container vessel moored at the quayside. The measurement campaign is part of the WINDLASS JIP which is aiming at the wind load modelling on
