Guest Editors
Dr. ELMOUATAMID Abdellatif
Email: abdellatif.elmouatamid@univ-guyane.fr
Affiliation: Sciences and Technology Department, University of French Guiana, UMR Espace-Dev, 97300, Cayenne, French Guiana.
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Research Interests: Power-to-X, Smart-Grid, Energy Efficiency , Energy management and control, wind energy, Energy storage, Predictive control, Information and communication technologies, Fault detection and diagnosis, predictive maintenance, Anomaly detection, condition monitoring
Dr. Chabakata MAHAMAT
Email: chabakata.mahamat@univ-guyane.fr
Affiliation: Sciences and Technology Department, University of French Guiana, UMR Espace-Dev, 97300, Cayenne, French Guiana.
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Research Interests: Hydrogen-based energy storage, Renewable Energy Technologies, Electrical Power Engineering, Power Systems Simulation, Power Electronics, Grid Integration, Power Systems Modelling, Power Converters, Energy management system, Harmonics, Power System Stability, Power Engineering, Energy Conversion, Inverters
Summary
Floating offshore wind farm is the new future of power production within the wind energy sector. This emerging technology will play a critical role in the transition to a cleaner energy supply and contribute significantly to the increase of wind power generation. Consequently, several research and innovation areas are considered (e.g., design, installation, energy transport, grid interconnection, maintenance, monitoring) to minimize risks and maximize the chances of a successful future installations. The objective of this special issue is to curate and distribute the most contemporary developments concerning the design, control, optimization, and health monitoring of offshore wind energy farms. Scientific and engineering disciplines with innovative research ideas concerning modelling, simulation, and experimentation of offshore wind power generation are encouraged to submit their research with great importance for the journal. This special issue includes various topics on offshore wind technologies including operation and maintenance, condition monitoring, civil and mechanical infrastructures, control, wind turbine design, power systems dynamics, wind energy forecasting, planning, system integration and market participation, aerodynamics, industrial standards for HVDC transmission, and socio-economic impacts of offshore wind power.
The areas that are particularly considered for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
· Offshore wind farms environmental and legal aspects
· Digital twin for real-time turbine performance monitoring and predictive maintenance
· Control mechanisms, AI, and machine learning in wind turbine design and predictive control
· IoT in turbine design for real-time data acquisition
· Cloud-based tools for turbine modelling and optimization.
· Installation and condition monitoring
· Socio-economic considerations in offshore wind farms deployment
· Eco-design principles for sustainable offshore wind turbine lifecycle
· Power generation, storage, and transmission
· Novel offshore wind-turbine designs and optimization
· Fluid surface interaction and high-fidelity, efficient aerodynamic models for wind turbines
· Wind float foundation technology and platform design
Keywords
Offshore wind power, offshore/onshore, HVDC transmission, Digital twins, Control mechanisms, wind-turbine designs, predictive control, performances monitoring, Eco-design, Socio-economic studies