scholarly journals Potential Economic Impacts from Offshore Wind in the Gulf of Mexico Region (Fact Sheet)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Flores ◽  
D. Keyser ◽  
S. Tegen
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Keyser ◽  
S. Tegen ◽  
F. Flores ◽  
D. Zammit ◽  
M. Kraemer ◽  
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EDIS ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Borisova ◽  
Norman Breuer ◽  
Roy Carriker

FE787, a 12-page fact sheet by Tatiana Borisova, Norman Breuer, and Roy Carriker, focuses on one piece of the policy-making puzzle related to climate change: possible economic costs for the state of Florida associated with climate change projections. Includes references. Published by the UF Department of Food and Resource Economics, December 2008. FE787/FE787: Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Florida: Estimates from Two Studies (ufl.edu)


2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle A. Savolainen ◽  
J. Matthew Fannin ◽  
Rex H. Caffey

Author(s):  
Thomas Zambrano ◽  
Tyler MacCready ◽  
Taras Kiceniuk ◽  
Dominique G. Roddier ◽  
Christian A. Cermelli

A Fourier spectrum based model of Gulf of Mexico storm conditions is applied to a 6 degree of freedom analytic simulation of a moored, floating offshore structure fitted with three rotary wind turbines. The resulting heave, surge, and sway motions are calculated using a Newtonian Runge-Kutta method. The angular motions of pitch, roll, and yaw are also calculated in this time-domain progression. The forces due to wind, waves, and mooring line tension are predicted as a function of time over a 4000 second interval. The WAMIT program is used to develop the wave forces on the platform. A constant force coefficient is used to estimate wind turbine loads. A TIMEFLOAT computer code calculates the motion of the system based on the various forces on the structure and the system’s inertia.


Author(s):  
Ling Ling Yin ◽  
King Him Lo ◽  
Su Su Wang

In this paper, a study is conducted on wind and metocean loads and associated structural dynamics of a 13.2-MW large offshore wind turbine in Western Gulf of Mexico (GOM) shallow water. The offshore wind turbine considered includes a rotor with three 100-meter long blades and a mono-tower support structure. Natural frequencies and mode shapes of the blades and the mono-tower are determined first and used subsequently to establish a Campbell diagram for safe wind turbine operation. The results show that hydrodynamic added mass has little effect on the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the support structure but it introduces, in part, appreciable effects on loads carried by the turbine when the blades are pitched at wind speeds above the rated speed. Also determined, for normal operation and extreme metocean conditions (i.e., 100-year return hurricanes), are normal thrust on the wind rotor, blade-tip displacement, overturning moment and tower-top displacement sustained by the wind turbine.


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