PDL Solutions (Europe) Limited

Floating offshore wind in deep waters is a massive renewable energy resource ready to be tapped into to achieve carbon reduction targets. Prohibitive costs and advanced infrastructure requirement have limited growth of this sector even in developed countries. In developing countries the resource has remained entirely unexploited. Project MARLIN aims to te...

The aim of this project is to develop, and to demonstrate, a novel real-time monitoring system to detect in-service degradation in offshore wind turbine support structures using ultrasonic guided waves. This system uses active sonic/ultrasonic waves to cover the whole volume of concern to detect fatigue cracking at welds, and possibly at other locations, ...

Offshore wind farms are an attractive renewable energy source because they overcome the objections of visual and noise intrusion that apply to onshore wind and the time averaged capacity per turbine rating is higher. However the life cycle costs are much higher and require reduction by some 50% to achieve the levelised costs of onshore wind. A major contr...