Routing and scheduling of maintenance support vessels for an offshore wind and solar farm

Routing and scheduling of maintenance support vessels for an offshore wind and solar farm

Hablé, Joelle (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering)

Jiang, X. (mentor)
Negenborn, R.R. (graduation committee)
Coraddu, A. (graduation committee)
Bakhmet, Iana (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Mechanical Engineering | Multi-Machine Engineering

2022-06-16

Floating photovoltaic (FPV) is an emerging concept. Potential is recognized in combining FPV and off­ shore wind farms to create an offshore wind and solar farm. One of the remaining uncertainties around the potential of an offshore wind and solar farm is the value of the operations and maintenance cost. As one of the main contributing factors to operations and maintenance costs of offshore wind farms is the accessibility, integration of the transport for maintenance of the wind turbines and solar units can minimize the costs. By means of a route and scheduling optimization tool the optimal route and sched­ ule of maintenance support vessels for a virtual OWSF is investigated. The research indicates that the optimal route and schedule of maintenance support vessels for a virtual OWSF does not include integration of the transport. The main reason is the low costs of an RHIB compared to the cost of a CTV or SOV. However, the optimal route and schedule is very case dependent. Thus recommended is to apply the model to multiple case studies to form a general conclusion.

Routing and Scheduling
Offshore Wind Energy
Offshore Solar Energy
Optimization
operation & maintenance
Maintenance vessels

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2023-07-04

Student theses

master thesis

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