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FOWT Motion Reduction – Results from the Eurostars CROWN project

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This summary presents the project Motion Reduction of a Concrete Reduced-draft spar for the Offshore floating Wind iNdustry (CROWN) of the partners Seaplace, USTUTT and sowento GmbH. sowento was in charge of the motion reduction sub-project. As part of the overall project, Seaplace designed a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) with Reduced Spar Design (RDS) […]

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Floating wind research

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Floating wind research is one of the key fields at Stuttgart Wind Energy (SWE). Frank Lemmer, the head of Floating Wind at sowento, was part of these research activities from the early beginnings. His work on reduced-order modeling, integrated design, and controller design for floating wind turbines was awarded in 2019 by the European Academy of

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The history of lidar-assisted control

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Research and testing of lidar-assisted control started at University of Stuttgart in 2008 and since then experience on advanced control technologies involving processed lidar measurements has been built up. David Schlipf, head of the Lidar Technology at sowento, has played an important role in the evolution and development of lidar in wind energy applications. Through his research and leading

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Client and partner stories

sowento and Innosea are delivering the Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Numerical Modelling Guidelines project for the Floating Offshore Wind Joint Industry Project (FLW JIP) which is led by Carbon Trust.
The Carbon Trustwww.carbontrust.com
The Carbon Trust
Blue Aspirations and sowento are collaborating in floating offshore wind and floating lidar applications.
Blue Aspirationswww.blue-aspirations.com
Blue Aspirations
Seaplace and sowento are partners in the EU funded EUROSTARS project CROWN Motion Reduction.
Seaplacewww.seaplace.es
Seaplace
Siemens Gamesa Onshore Technology and sowento are collaborating in LIDAR Assisted Control project managed by Asier Díaz de Corcuera and David Schlipf.
Siemens Gamesawww.siemensgamesa.com
Siemens Gamesa
ClassNK and sowento are collaborating in the field of floating wind turbines.
ClassNKwww.classnk.or.jp
ClassNK
sowento has performed a functional and loading analysis of the Seawind 6 system for an independent assessment of behaviors and design loads.
Seawind Ocean Technologywww.seawindtechnology.com
Seawind Ocean Technology
Over the recent years, sowento and OWT have cooperated successfully in developing floating offshore wind structures. sowento was responsible for all coupled analyses and controls and we at OWT transferred their coupled loads into our FE-models of the components. We have formed a strong and reliable partnership and are looking forward to building on this fruitful and efficient collaboration in the future.
OWTwww.owt.de
OWT
TUHH and sowento are partners in the national funded VAMOS (Validation, Measurement, and Optimization of Floating Wind Turbines) project. TUHH information on the VAMOS project.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud, TU Hamburg-Harburgwww.tuhh.de/fds
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud, TU Hamburg-Harburg
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