Noise reduction for offshore pile-driving of monopiles

Title

Noise reduction for offshore pile-driving of monopiles

 Author

Haarman, Mirthe (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences; TU Delft Hydraulic Engineering)

Contributor

Metrikine, A. (mentor) ORCID 0000-0002-3514-3541
Tsouvalas, A. (graduation committee) ORCID 0000-0002-5830-5654
Braam, C.R. (graduation committee)
Van Wuijckhuijse, Bas (graduation committee)

Degree granting institution

Delft University of Technology

 Date

2017-06-20

 Abstract

The demand for offshore wind farms is developing rapidly due to the increased demand for renewable energy. Installation of foundation piles for offshore wind, however, are accompanied by a serious by-product which is the high underwater noise levels emitted during the pile-driving process. Current mitigation methods have proven to decrease the underwater noise emission, but these methods come at high costs. Moreover, these methods do not reduce the noise generation, but mitigate the noise that is already radiated into the water column. This study investigates a new concept, namely the reduction of noise at its source by altering the waves as they propagate downwards the pile.

 Subject

underwater noise
offshore monopiles
pile-driving

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 Embargo date

2022-06-20

 Part of collection

Student theses

 Document type

master thesis

 Rights

© 2017 Mirthe Haarman
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