The purpose of blade pitch control There are two control mechanisms in a wind turbine: the torque control and the blade pitch control. The torque control regulates the generator torque to keep the power constant at low wind speed (below [...]
How do you lift a submarine out of the water? CFD of lifting a submarine (DSRV) out of moonpool. This blogpost shows how computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used to reduce the risk during a complex lifting operation by simulating the [...]
Litus Lux Litus Lux installed onshore. It can also be installed on an offshore foundation. The Norwegian Coastal Administration has developed a new AtoN (Aids to Navigation), called Litus Lux. This new Aton is designed according to new international standards for [...]
Introduction Figure 1: Typical mud agitator A mud agitator is mainly used to agitate and mix the drilling mud to prevent solid particles from depositing in the tank. For proper mixing the mud agitator must be properly sized with respect to power requirement [...]
JADOP is a special purpose software for design optimization of jacket structures. Design of offshore wind turbine jacket foundations Offshore structures, such as offshore wind turbines and oil & gas platforms, are exposed to extreme wind and wave loads all [...]
