Model Brunel -Floating Wind Turbine Foundation

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The BRUNEL Floating Foundation is a modular, semi-submersible structure engineered for next-generation wind turbines, optimized to withstand aggressive conditions typical of the North Sea. It utilizes established technology with its design centered around steel tubulars, ensuring synchronized global supply chain integration and mass production capabilities. The foundation's modularity allows for the assembly of large-scale floating wind parks with efficient logistics. A unique turret mooring system, crafted for simplicity, supports self-alignment to wind forces, optimizing energy production and minimizing mechanical requirements. A comprehensive maintenance solution enables offshore component exchange without towing, thus enhancing cost efficiency and operational safety. This pioneering approach leverages Fred. Olsen's extensive engineering know-how and paves the way for advancing the potential of floating offshore wind energy by focusing on lowering the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) while ensuring consistent quality and a high deployment rate.

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The BRUNEL floating foundation is designed to unlock the potential of floating wind.

A floating wind turbine foundation with both strong technical and commercial capabilities, BRUNEL is designed for the next generation of wind turbines. BRUNEL has a modular approach suitable for serial and automized production in the existing global supply chain allowing for instant scale-up and low cost.

Fred. Olsen 1848 and partners have developed a framework for "Active control of yaw drift of single point moored wind turbines".

Learn more about how to stabilize single point moored floating wind turbines while optimizing the positioning against the wind thrust for increased energy production here:

The BRUNEL Floating Foundation is a semi-submersible structure designed for harsh north-sea conditions.

With its modular design, the philosophy is to utilize existing and proven technology to allow for a rapid route to market. The use of modular steel tubulars, like the ones used for monopiles and wind towers, means that BRUNEL is manufactured and designed for the existing global supply chain, and with a radical focus on automated mass production.

Subsequently, BRUNEL can leverage already existing supply chains and manufacture and assemble foundations at the volume required for floating giga-parks. Additionally, BRUNEL offers more efficient logistics and the facilitates local content assembly.

Fred. Olsen 1848 is developing an O&M solution tailored specifically for BRUNEL – a complete solution and operational procedure.

The BRUNEL Maintenance Solution will enable large component exchange directly at the offshore floating wind site in a safe and cost-efficient manner, operationally optimized for the BRUNEL floating foundation. This reduces project risk and avoids towing the foundation to shore.

The unique BRUNEL maintenance solution features a barge fitted with both a jacking system and a compatible crane that attaches itself to the BRUNEL foundation. This removes the need for dynamic lifts, reduces complexity in replacement operations, and at the same time creates a working area on the barge to handle the components.