Li, Y.; Liu, L.; Li, S.; Hu, Z.-Z. The Probability of Ship Collision during the Fully Submerged Towing Process of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines. Sustainability2024, 16, 1705.
Li, Y.; Liu, L.; Li, S.; Hu, Z.-Z. The Probability of Ship Collision during the Fully Submerged Towing Process of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines. Sustainability 2024, 16, 1705.
Li, Y.; Liu, L.; Li, S.; Hu, Z.-Z. The Probability of Ship Collision during the Fully Submerged Towing Process of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines. Sustainability2024, 16, 1705.
Li, Y.; Liu, L.; Li, S.; Hu, Z.-Z. The Probability of Ship Collision during the Fully Submerged Towing Process of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines. Sustainability 2024, 16, 1705.
Abstract
As global warming intensifies, the development of offshore wind farms is swiftly progressing, especially deep-water floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) capable of energy capture in deep-sea regions, which have emerged as a focal point of both academic and industrial interest. Although numerous researchers have conducted comprehensive and multifaceted studies on various components of wind turbines, less attention has been paid to the operational stage response of FOWTs to wind, waves, and currents, and the reliability of structural components. This study primarily employs theoretical analysis to establish mathematical models under a series of reasonable assumptions, examining the possibility of collisions between FOWT transport fleets and other vessels in the passage area during the towing process. Using the model, this paper takes the Wanning Offshore Floating Wind Farm (FOWF) project, which is scheduled to be deployed in the South China Sea, as the research object and calculates the probability of collisions between FOWTs and other vessels in three time periods from the total assembly pier in Hainan Wanning to the predetermined position 22 km away. The findings of the analysis suggest that the mathematical model has the capability to efficiently determine the frequency of collisions between vessels within the domain and the transport team during the transportation process. This holds substantial relevance for future risk assessment and disaster prevention and mitigation measures in the context of FOWT transportation.
Keywords
FOWTs; ship collision; mathematical model
Subject
Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
