Renewable energy engineering: offshore wind and floating solar
Coupled wave and wind analysis for fixed and floating offshore wind foundations, and anchoring and mooring design for floating solar arrays, in SACS, GH Bladed, FAST, OrcaFlex and MOSES.
- 3floating solar projects in India
- 5analysis tools: SACS, GH Bladed, FAST, OrcaFlex and MOSES
- USApartner for floating solar mooring: Stewart Technology Associates
Two renewable markets, one offshore team
The same wave, wind and mooring analysis we run for oil and gas, applied to turbines and floating solar.
Offshore wind, fixed and floating
Design and analysis of offshore wind turbine structures under wave, wind and mechanical loading, with fatigue and extreme loads for the substructure and non-linear foundations.
SoftwareSACS ยท GH Bladed ยท FAST
Explore offshore wind
Floating solar
Anchoring and mooring design for floating solar arrays on reservoirs, with our US partner Stewart Technology Associates.
SoftwareOrcaFlex ยท MOSES
Explore floating solarHow we analyse a wind turbine structure
Wave and wind loads go into one coupled model, and every sea state and wind speed counts towards fatigue.
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Loads
Wave and wind, as time histories or random seas from spectra
Pierson-MoskowitzJONSWAPOchi-HubbleVon KarmanHarrisKaimalUser-defined spectra - 2
Coupled response
Wave, wind and wind-induced mechanical loading in one multi-modal analysis
SACSGH BladedFASTMultiple random seeds - 3
Fatigue and extreme loads
Checks for the substructure and non-linear foundation systems
Rainflow countingDamage across wind speeds and sea statesExtreme loads
3 floating solar projects in India
Floating solar array anchoring and mooring
With our partner Stewart Technology Associates (USA), we designed the anchoring and mooring of a floating solar array in India.
Rihand Dam floating solar PV
Design of a floating solar farm on the Rihand Dam reservoir in India.
Pegadapalli floating solar mooring, Telangana
Research and development on the mooring of a floating solar field in a sheltered feedwater reservoir near Ramagundam, with all components to the relevant IS/IEC standards.
Stewart Technology Associates, USA. Our partner on floating solar anchoring and mooring.
Floating solar servicesFrom site data to a foundation or mooring design
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Share the site and the concept
Turbine or array layout, foundation or float type, and the site's metocean and soil data.
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Agree load cases
Wave and wind spectra, sea states, wind speeds and the standards that apply.
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Build the coupled model
SACS with GH Bladed or FAST for wind; OrcaFlex or MOSES for floating solar moorings.
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Analyse
Extreme and fatigue cases, with damage summed across every sea state and wind speed.
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Report and design
Foundation, anchor and mooring designs, with the results behind them.
The tools we use, and the ones we can supply
Software we use
We also train engineers in SACS, MOSES and OrcaFlex. Follow a link to see the course.
- SACS training
- MOSES training
- OrcaFlex training
- GH Bladed
- FAST
Software we supply
Want to run the analysis in-house? We supply the software too.
Authorized Bentley partner in India and the Middle East. About the partnership
What renewable developers ask us
Do you design offshore wind turbine foundations?
Yes, for fixed and floating turbines. We analyse the structure under wave, wind and mechanical loading and predict fatigue and extreme loads for the substructure and non-linear foundations.
Which wave and wind spectra do you use?
Pierson-Moskowitz, JONSWAP and Ochi-Hubble wave spectra, and Von Karman, Harris and Kaimal wind spectra, or user-defined spectra and time histories.
How do you calculate fatigue on a wind turbine structure?
We use rainflow counting on the time-history results, and accumulate damage across many wind speeds and sea states.
What floating solar work have you done?
3 projects in India: anchoring and mooring of a floating solar array with Stewart Technology Associates (USA), the Rihand Dam floating solar farm, and mooring R&D for the Pegadapalli field in Telangana.
Which software do you use for renewables?
SACS with GH Bladed and FAST for offshore wind, and OrcaFlex and MOSES for floating solar anchoring and mooring.
Can you supply the software as well?
Yes. As an authorized Bentley channel partner we supply SACS, MOSES, including MOSES Wind Turbine, and PLAXIS, and train engineers in SACS, MOSES and OrcaFlex.
Planning an offshore wind or floating solar project?
Send us the site, the layout and the concept. An engineer will come back with the load cases to run and a scope.