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Flexible floating offshore islands
Apr 8, 2022
Reading time 6 minutes
A Dutch consortium including four applied research institutes (MARIN, TNO, Deltares and WUR) is exploring the potential of combining a partially ...
Magazine
Towards large-scale FPV
Sep 30, 2021
Floating Photovoltaics (FPV) is a rapidly growing market. The first commercial FPV plant, which was around 170 kWp, was realised in 2008 on an ...
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Floating Islands one step closer to realisation as Space@Sea project completes
Apr 7, 2021
Reading time 6 minutes
The Horizon 2020 funded Space@Sea project kicked off in November 2017, with the aim of taking a further step towards the efficient use of the ...
Paper
Optimization of Wave Induced Motions and Forces on a Floating Island
Jun 14, 2019
Floating mega islands can provide an attractive solution for creating temporal or more permanent space in coastal areas with a high demand for real ...
Paper
On the wave induced motions of a floating mega island
Apr 22, 2019
Floating mega islands can provide an attractive solution for creating temporal or more permanent space in coastal areas with a high demand for real ...
Magazine
Exploring the potential of floating solar energy
Dec 15, 2018
Reading time 6 minutes
Solar energy is an important alternative energy source but in a densely populated country like the Netherlands the space for solar parks is very ...
Paper
Model tests and numerical analysis for a floating mega island
Jun 17, 2018
About 70% of the earth’s surface area is covered with water. Due to the sea level rise and increasing population in coastal areas we need to use our ...
Magazine
Model tests for the world’s first deepwater FLNG
Apr 25, 2018
Reading time 3 minutes
MARIN recently carried out a model test campaign on a FLNG that is expected to be the first deep-water FLNG in the world.The FLNG will be a ...
Magazine
Joint R&D in Offshore JIPs
Apr 22, 2016
Reading time 6 minutes
The offshore industry works closely together to share knowledge,
experience and costs. Here we give an update on the latest Joint
Industry Projects. ...
Paper
Development of a Scaled-Down Floating Wind Turbine for Offshore Basin Testing
Jun 8, 2014
In the last years MARIN has been involved in an increasing number of projects for the offshore wind industry. New techniques in model testing and ...
Paper
State of the art model testing techniques for floating wind turbines
Feb 23, 2013
After the present generation shallow water fixed wind turbines, floating wind turbines are considered to be the next step in development of offshore ...
Paper
Viscous-Flow Calculations On An Axial Marine Current Turbine
Jul 1, 2012
In this paper, the flow over a marine current turbine is studied. As a test case, the benchmark turbine published in [1, 2] is selected. A ...