CleanWinTur – An ultrasonic system for anti-fouling and condition monitoring of offshore wind turbines

CleanWinTur — 用于海上风力涡轮机防污和状态监测的超声波系统

• 批准号: 104218
• 金额: $ 184.91万
• 依托单位: 3-SCI LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104218
• 关键词: CleanWinTur; ultrasonic; system; anti; fouling

"Offshore wind energy has been instrumental in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and rendering the UK less dependent on imports to cover its energy needs. As such, large investment programmes and favourable legislation have been driving growth in the sector with overall capacity doubling every five years, a trend that is set to continue by 2030. However, offshore wind energy costs remain high and the increasing depth and distance from the shore continue to drive maintenance costs up, particularly those associated with accessing the turbines for maintenance crews. In particular, dealing with marine growth through traditional means (i.e. manually cleaning the access ladders) becomes increasingly costly, challenging, dangerous, and ineffective. CleanWinTur will automate this process with a permanently installed system that will utilise techniques such as ultrasound, UV-C and thermal sterilisation to prevent marine growth on the access ladders, reducing respective costs and dangers.

“海上风能有助于减少温室气体排放，并使英国减少对进口的依赖，以满足其能源需求。因此，大型投资计划和有利的立法一直在推动该行业的增长，总体产能每5年翻一番，这一趋势将在2030年之前继续下去。然而，海上风能成本仍然居高不下，而且不断增加的深度和距离继续推高了维护成本，特别是与维修人员接触涡轮机相关的成本。特别是，通过传统方法(即人工清洁通道梯子)处理海洋生长变得越来越昂贵、具有挑战性、危险和无效。CleanWinTur将通过一个永久安装的系统实现这一过程的自动化，该系统将利用超声波、UV-C和热灭菌等技术来防止进入梯子上的海洋生物生长，从而降低各自的成本和危险。