The aim is to further develop and verify World Wide Wind’s Counter Rotating Axis Floating Tilted (CRAFT) turbine.
The aim is to provide full technical verification for global markets and cater for specific metocean conditions in Taiwanese waters.
In the initial project in 2025, a detailed computer model will be developed to execute coupled hydrodynamic and aerodynamic analyses to establish operational load patterns, movements in six degrees of freedom and all relevant structural responses.
The theoretical models will be validated with scaled down model tests in the MIRDC ocean test basin. The basin tests will also be used to optimize the design.
Upon successful completion of the initial project, both parties intend to develop the CRAFT turbine further jointly.
“This is an important milestone for World Wide Wind,” says CEO Stian Valentin Knutsen.
“The co-operation with MIRDC will be a major step forward towards delivering a commercial and economically competitive floating offshore wind solution for Taiwan and for the global market,” says Knutsen.
