Offshore wind turbine operations and maintenance: A state-of-the-art review

Z Ren, AS Verma, Y Li, JJE Teuwen, Z Jiang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Operations and maintenance of offshore wind turbines (OWTs) play an important role in the
development of offshore wind farms. Compared with operations, maintenance is a critical …

[HTML][HTML] Towards understanding environmental and cumulative impacts of floating wind farms: Lessons learned from the fixed-bottom offshore wind farms

F Rezaei, P Contestabile, D Vicinanza… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Renewable energy sectors have been rapidly growing over the last three decades due to
the environmental concerns regarding fossil fuels and increasing demand of energy by …

[HTML][HTML] Potential environmental effects of deepwater floating offshore wind energy facilities

H Farr, B Ruttenberg, RK Walter, YH Wang… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last few decades, the offshore wind energy industry has expanded its scope from
turbines mounted on foundations driven into the seafloor and standing in less than 60 m of …

Hybrid sol–gel coatings for corrosion mitigation: A critical review

RB Figueira - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The corrosion process is a major source of metallic material degradation, particularly in
aggressive environments, such as marine ones. Corrosion progression affects the service …

[HTML][HTML] Emissions from corrosion protection systems of offshore wind farms: Evaluation of the potential impact on the marine environment

T Kirchgeorg, I Weinberg, M Hörnig, R Baier… - Marine pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Offshore wind energy is a fast growing sector of renewable energies worldwide. This will
change the marine environment and thus, a wide range of environmental impacts of offshore …

A comprehensive review on design, monitoring, and failure in fixed offshore platforms

N Amiri, M Shaterabadi, K Reza Kashyzadeh… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Offshore platforms have had diverse applications in the marine industry, for example, oil or
gas platforms can provide facilities to store the oil and gas before transport those to …

A review on defects in steel offshore structures and developed strengthening techniques

A Dehghani, F Aslani - Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a high demand for life extension of offshore structures in different regions, such as
Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Malaysian and Australian waters, and etc., that are now reaching …

Managing biofouling on submerged static artificial structures in the marine environment–assessment of current and emerging approaches

G Hopkins, I Davidson, E Georgiades… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The number, extent, diversity, and global reach of submerged static artificial structures
(SSAS) in the marine environment is increasing. These structures are prone to the …

Dissimilar underwater wet welding of HSLA steels

J Tomków, D Fydrych, G Rogalski - The International Journal of Advanced …, 2020 - Springer
The high-strength low-alloy S460ML and S460N steels were chosen for underwater wet
welding of dissimilar T-joints using covered electrodes. For improving the quality of joints …

Nanostructured superhydrophobic polysiloxane coating for high barrier and anticorrosion applications in marine environment

IO Arukalam, EE Oguzie, Y Li - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2018 - Elsevier
The use of epoxy and polyurethane coatings as marine topcoats, have been influenced by
their inherent high surface energy property which increases their affinity to water and …