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Mitrofanov, Yu I., and G. Yu Rabinovich. "Agrophysical and Biological Properties of Drainage Soils in Land Reclamation." Journal of Agricultural Science 9, no. 11 (October 16, 2017): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jas.v9n11p259.
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This paper presents the results of the research carried out in the All-Russian Research Institute of Reclaimed Lands. It has been established that land improvement techniques increased the integral index of physical soil conditions from 0.41-0.60 to 0.80-0.86. The soil demonstrated a greater total number of microorganisms, as well as certain physiological groups such as actinomycetes, autochthonous and especially nitrogen-fixers; but the number of fungi and denitrifiers, as well as the fungi causing the Fusarium wilt of the plants, decreased.Average crops increase achieved with the help of deep reclaiming band tillage of drained gleyish soil to depth 50-60 cm was 9.0-24.1% in both wet and dry years. This land improvement technique effect lasts for two-three years or longer. The ridged plowing compared to the ordinary plowing raised the spring crops by 0.55-0.61 ton/ha (by 16.9-17.5%) without making any additional expenditures.
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Hassan, Nik Mohd Kamel Nik, Nik Abdullah Mu'az Nik Mohd Kamel, Muhammad Fauzan Pauzi, and Hee Min Teh. "Construction Technology Used for the Reclamation of Seri Tanjung Pinang (Phase 2)." MATEC Web of Conferences 203 (2018): 01016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201820301016.
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The second phase of Seri Tanjung Pinang (STP2) aims to be an exemplar water front development that encapsulates the best of island living in Penang, Malaysia. STP2 offers a range of residential, commercial and leisure facilities to both local and international investors. Based on the geographical area, STP2 is divided into three packages, which are Package 2A (foreshore of Gurney Drive and the western region of the sand island), Package 2B (the southeast region of the sand island) and Package 2C (the northeast region of the sand island). It is an extension of the fully developed STP1 (Phase I) consisting of 240 acres of land reclamation works. Reclamation of the 253-acre STP2 Package 2A commenced in 2016 and is still underway, and reclamation of the remaining packages with the reclamation size of 507-acres shall kick off at a later stage. The main intention of this paper is to address the construction technology adopted since the commencement of the STP2 Package 2A reclamation. Prior to introduction to the various construction technologies used, the background of this reclamation project is first described. The overall construction sequence for the reclamation is also provided. The construction technologies applied for this project including turbidity control measures, delivery modes for construction materials, perimeter bund construction, placement of filled materials, soil improvement, sheet pile installation and construction of revetment, are respectively detailed in this paper.
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Makaruk, Ihor. "CROP PRODUCTION AND LAND RESOURCES IN GALICIA DURING THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN PERIOD." Problems of humanities. History, no. 6/48 (April 27, 2021): 84–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.24919/2312-2595.6/48.228473.
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Summary. The purpose of this study is to analyze the processes that took place in crop production within the context of Galicia agriculture development on the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries. Conclusions. The article recognizes the impact of popular science education, which was one of the key criteria for the introduction of the up-to-date methods of economic management. This had a positive effect on the economic development of the region, which lagged far behind other regions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During the study period, there was a breakthrough in the methods and approaches to farming inasmuch as processes of mechanization, novel tillage techniques and land reclamation were introduced. The agricultural processing industry began to develop intensively coupled with a serious consideration given to selective breeding of animals. All these aspects have led to a significant improvement in the industry’s performance. The subject has been partly studied in Poland and Austria whilst it was insufficiently considered in Ukraine. Therefore, the development of each sector of agriculture of Galicia at the turn of the century requires an extensive review. The research methodology. The article offers an attempt to analyze the development of crop production, the leading branch of agriculture. The study employed a comparative analysis, thereby allowing us to establish the dynamics of the crop production development in the region. The scientific novelty. The archive materials of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Cracow, Warsaw, and Vienna were consulted for a comprehensive characterization of crop production in Galicia. The historiography of the research topic is divided into several periods: published papers of the late 19th – early 20th centuries, the interwar period, the Soviet era, the surveys of independent Ukraine as well as modern international studies. Analysis of the sources proved the positive dynamics of the crop production development in the vast majority of its types. This was influenced by a number of objective factors, one of which was the scientific extension and the development of farming research in Galicia, the opening of specialized facilities, educational and scientific institutions that studied the issues faced by the economic managers of the industry.
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Sychev, V. G., N. I. Akanova, and M. M. Vizirskaya. "EFFECTIVENESS OF UREA WITH UREASE INHIBITOR – UTEC TO THE POTATO." Vegetable crops of Russia, no. 3 (June 14, 2019): 104–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.18619/2072-9146-2019-3-104-108.
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In the he article are presented the research result on effectiveness of application new form of urea on potato. New urea form is urea with urease inhibitors. This fertilities type allow to reduce losses of nitrogen in ammonium form. Field experiment was carried out in 2017 on solonetc light chestnut soils with heavy granulometric compound in the conditions of the Volgograd region in the experimental polygon of the lower Volga agricultural research Institute – branch of Federal state budgetary scientific institution "Federal scientific center for agro-ecology, integrated land reclamation and protective afforestation wounds". As an object of research used potatoes mid-early table varieties Nevsky. The advantage of a new fertilizer form is the yield increase and improvement of tubers quality. Urea UTEC application leads to formation bigger and uniform tuber size. The use of urea UTEC provide the potato yield of 56.4 t/ha, with marketable tubers fraction up to 54.82 t/ha, the total yield increase to the control – 35.6%, in monetary terms this amounted to 245887.0 RUB/ha additional profit. Under these conditions, was obtained lowest amount of non-marketable yield – 0.16 t/ha, which is 2.65 times less than in the control variant. The advantage of urea UTEC application in comparison with ammonium nitrate was the increase in the yield of marketable potatoes by 5.1 t/ha and an additional profit up to 76.8 thousand rubles/ha. The Assessment of the potato quality showed that the best treatment was also the treatment with UTEC urea, the starch content in tubers was 9.22%. Note that almost the same value of the indicator in the variant with the use of urea (option 2), and the lowest starch content was noted when using ammonium nitrate – 9.05%.
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Singh, R. K. "Genetic resource and the role of international collaboration in rice breeding." Genome 42, no. 4 (August 1, 1999): 635–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/g99-042.
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The international efforts in rice research have led to self-sufficiency and surpluses in many of the south and southeast Asian countries. The trend must continue to meet the growing demand for rice. The global partnership in plant genetic resources has played a significant role in ensuring long-term preservation of and access by researchers to the gene pool worldwide. Large numbers of high-yielding varieties with resistance to diseases and insect pests have been released by the collaborating countries and have both increased national average yields and stabilized rice production. Now, the yields must increase further, as more rice needs to be produced from less land with less labour and pesticides. The new plant type being developed at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) seems to have the potential to produce 20-25% more grain than the best of our modern varieties. With the growing complexity of problems, the demand for diverse genetic materials is also increasing. It is no wonder that some of the recently released varieties have genes from as many as 60 or more diverse donors. These developments owe a lot to the free exchange of germplasm among breeders. However, the ever-increasing restrictions on the flow of genetic materials due to political and plant-health requirements pose serious threats to future varietal-improvement programs. Similarly, the problem of genetic erosion continues, and shrinking research support reduces the flexibility of programs. This paper reviews and discusses some of these and other related issues and their implications for rice breeding in the future.Key words: genetic resource, new plant type, marker-aided selection, pedigree complexity, International Network for Genetic Evaluation of Rice (INGER).
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Paudel, TP, BR Pokharel, and BS Shrestha. "Assessment Of The Dairy Animal Feeding System Of Western Nepal: A Synthesis Of Focus Group Discussions." SAARC Journal of Agriculture 17, no. 2 (February 3, 2020): 253–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sja.v17i2.45310.
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Livestock, the dairy sector in particular, has traditionally contributed to the Nepalese economy and livelihoods even though vegetarian centered food habits predominate. Despite a long chain of observations, discussions, and interventions, this sector has not realized substantial improvement. An International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) developed tool, Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST), has been deployed to precisely analyze the livestock feeding system in the Kapilvastu, Palpa and Arghakhachi districts of Nepal. A large proportion of the populations, especially the youth segment, have migrated, and as a result the area under agricultural production is ever decreasing. The typical crop production pattern does not reflect any dominance of fodder crops, which limits the availability of feed and posesa serious threat to the expansion of commercial dairy enterprises. Additional barriers to increased productivity include a limited supply of labor, competition for resources (i.e. labor, land) with rice production and the significant number of indigenous dairy animals in the national herd. Policy barriers that include unaffordable credit, limited access to inputs and inadequate government support further hinder potential growth of the dairy sector of this region. A dairy focused program to utilize the land and other resources to commercialize the dairy sector in order to tap the potential of this geography could be the only alternative to contribute toward meeting the national objective of making the country self-sufficient in milk and its products by 2020.
SAARC J. Agri., 17(2): 253-266 (2019)
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Mosiichuk, Y. B., P. D. Khoruzhyi, and I. P. Nedahkovskiy. "Improving the technology of closed water supply at agro-industrial enterprises." Міжвідомчий тематичний науковий збірник "Меліорація і водне господарство", no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.31073/mivg202002-253.
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The article analyzes the ways to improve the water supply system at agro-industrial enterprises. It is stated that the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of NAAS proposed to improve closed water supply systems at these enterprises to spend water and energy rationally and economically by developing highly efficient wastewater treatment technology to reuse wastewater and its sediments for technological needs.
During the work, the main tasks to be solved were the analysis of the reasons of unsatisfactory operation of traditional wastewater treatment plants and their current quality indicators and improvement of the rational technological scheme of closed water supply at the agro-industrial enterprises.
Scientific and practical results were obtained by analyzing the operation of wastewater treatment plants of industrial enterprises dealing with agricultural products processing, their quality indicators and known methods of improving technological schemes of biological wastewater treatment.
It was specified that traditional technology of biological wastewater treatment do not ensure the proper treatment quality, as the quality of wastewater from enterprises has significantly deteriorated due to the inflow of harmful impurities (xenobiotics, heavy metal ions, etc.) and high concentrations of organic matter, the content of which amount to: suspended solids> 1000 mg/dm3, COC> 10000 mgO2/dm3, BOC5> 6000 mgO2/dm3, BOCcomplete> 2000 mgO2/dm3, nitrogen and phosphorus ≤50 mg/dm3, which prevents the effective operation of aeration tanks.
The practicability of improving the "bioconveyor" technology by downward filtration through fibrous loading in bioreactors and upward filtration through floating filter loading in contact and clarifying filters to increase the efficiency of wastewater treatment was scientifically substantiated.
It was proved that this method provides high efficiency of biological wastewater treatment by reducing the amount of sediment and the absence of reverse activated sludge, and thus reducing capital and operating costs.
Natural mechanisms of household sewage treatment with reuse of water and sediments when cultivating agricultural crops are used as much as possible are used in the specified system of water supply at agro-industrial enterprises.
The optimal design and technological parameters of these structures are determined using the recommendations developed on the basis of our experimental research.
The proposed technology of closed water supply at agro-industrial enterprises provides for the separation of water supplied to consumers into technical and drinking one, as well as supplements of sewage treatment plants with bioreactors and contact-clarifying filters. Such systems ensure a minimum intake of water from natural water sources having its preliminary treatment directly in water reservoir, maximum use of treated wastewater and protection of the environment against wastewater pollution.
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Dekhtiar, O. O. "ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES FOR INCREASING ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS." Міжвідомчий тематичний науковий збірник "Меліорація і водне господарство", no. 2 (December 12, 2019): 105–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.31073/mivg201902-182.
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Actuality of the problem. The article discusses the current level of use of alternative sources of electrical power in the world. The main areas of the global power development were determined, the statistical data of leading energy companies, analytical international organizations and financial institutions were analysed. For today, all civilized countries successfully switch to alternative energy sources: wind, solar energy, biofuels, etc. In addition, the use of solar energy is one of the most promising inexhaustible, renewable energy sources. The use of renewable energy sources replaces the traditional one, based on extractive technologies polluting the atmosphere with harmful emissions, and enhances the greenhouse effect, reduces the burden on the resource base and energy systems of countries and improves the environment. Sustainable development of the agricultural sector of the economy of Ukraine and, in particular, irrigated agriculture requires a reduction in energy dependence. In the structure of the cost of irrigation water, a significant share accounts for electrical power. That is why to increase the efficiency of irrigated agriculture, to ensure high and sustainable yields in the context of climate change, it is extremely important to reduce the cost of power consumption. The need to use alternative energy sources in the drainage complex of Ukraine as part of the implementation of the energy strategy of Ukraine, aimed at the transition to fficient use and consumption of energy resources is highlighted. The Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation deals with the investigations of measures and technologies to improve power efficiency to reduce the specific energy consumption for pumping water by pumping stations and to reduce the rate of power losses for water intake and water transportation by water supply paths. One of the effective measures to reduce power cost is the use of alternative energy sources, in particular solar energy. The economic potential of the measures for improving energy efficiency in irrigation systems wass estimated. Conclusions. The estimation showed that the use of modules of solar power plants installed above the surface of open irrigation canals will lead to lower energy costs in the face of a constant increase in tariffs, that is, it will help to increase the economic efficiency of irrigation, reduce the share of water resources in national energy consumption and have a positive environmental effect. The sale of surplus power to the energy system at “green” tariffs can significantly reduce the payback period for the modernization of the engineering infrastructure of irrigation systems.
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Romashchenko, M. I., O. O. Dekhtiar, Yu V. Husyev, M. V. Yatsiuk, R. V. Saydak, T. V. Matyash, A. P. Shatkovskyi, et al. "Problems and main areas of irrigation and drainage development in Ukraine in a changing climate." Міжвідомчий тематичний науковий збірник "Меліорація і водне господарство", no. 1 (June 25, 2020): 56–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31073/mivg202001-233.
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Climate change has caused rapid soil dehydration in Ukraine; therefore sustainable agriculture will only be possible applying throughout irrigation or water regulation. Meanwhile, the use of the irrigation and drainage systems potential remains extremely unsatisfactory. In 2019, 532,000 ha were actually irrigated, and water regulation was performed on less than 300,000 ha. The purpose of the research. To analyze the existing state and substantiate the areas of the irrigation and drainage sector development to ensure the sustainable agriculture in the face of a changing climate. Materials and methods of the research. In the work, a set of methods was used: analytical, expert evaluations, surveys, comparisons and analogues, experimental. Observation data from the state meteorological stations network were used to evaluate hydrothermal conditions and the data from the network of hydrological posts of Ukrhydrometcentre were used to evaluate the river condition. To assess the technical condition of the engineering infrastructure, methodological approaches were used in accordance with the requirements of the international and European standards and the normative documents currently in force in Ukraine. To identify the possible ways and mechanisms to restore the irrigation and drainage systems potential, the reasons of the existing state were analyzed and it was determined that the uncompleted land and economic reforms, imperfections in the existing legislation and state support mechanisms, especially in the sector management, caused the long-year underfunding of irrigation and drainage facilities operation and restoration and resulted in the crisis situation in the sector. Conclusions. Based on the study of the world experience and the carried out research, it was established that the restoration and development of irrigation and drainage in Ukraine are possible only along with the implementation of a legal and institutional reform to introduce decentralization, improvement of the existing legislation, modernization of irrigation and drainage systems through the development and implementation of investment projects for restoration and development of irrigation and drainage systems, creation of attractive investment environments, development and introduction of a financing mechanism to cover management, operation and maintenance costs based on a new tariff formation system, introduction of the scientific support and staffing system for the land reclamation sector. The basis for the deployment of irrigation and drainage restoration should be the "Irrigation and Drainage Strategy in Ukraine until 2030", and the appropriate plan of measures, formed on the basis of fundamentally new institutional, scientific, technical and technological, economic, organizational, social and environmental approaches, should become a tool for achieving the goals of the "Strategy ...". Successful implementation of the goals of irrigation and drainage restoration in Ukraine will create the conditions to sustainable and profitable agricultural production in the face of climate change, to restore irrigation on the area of about 1,0 to 1,2 mln. ha and drainage on the area of 1,0 mln. ha and to additionally get up to 10 mln. tons of grain, 8-10 mln. tons of fruit, berries and vegetables annually.
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TWOMLOW, STEVE, BEKELE SHIFERAW, PETER COOPER, and J. D. H. KEATINGE. "INTEGRATING GENETICS AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGY TARGETING AND GREATER IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE SEMI-ARID TROPICS." Experimental Agriculture 44, no. 2 (April 2008): 235–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0014479708006340.
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SUMMARYGood management of natural resources is the key to good agriculture. This is true everywhere – and particularly in the semi-arid tropics, where over-exploitation of fragile or inherently vulnerable agro-ecosystems is leading to land and soil degradation, productivity decline, and increasing hunger and poverty. Modern crop varieties offer high yields, but the larger share of this potential yield can only be realized with good crop management. The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), working over a vast and diverse mandate area, has learned one key lesson: that technologies and interventions must be matched not only to the crop or livestock enterprise and the biophysical environment, but also with the market and investment environment, including input supply systems and policy. Various Natural Resource Management (NRM) technologies have been developed over the years, but widespread adoption has been limited for various reasons: technical, socio-economic and institutional. To change this, ICRISAT hypothesizes that ‘A research approach, founded on the need to integrate a broad consideration of technical, socio-economic and institutional issues into the generation of agricultural innovations will result in a higher level of adoption and more sustainable and diverse impacts in the rainfed systems of the semi-arid tropics.’ Traditionally, crop improvement and NRM were seen as distinct but complementary disciplines. ICRISAT is deliberately blurring these boundaries to create the new paradigm of IGNRM or Integrated Genetic and Natural Resource Management. Improved varieties and improved resource management are two sides of the same coin. Most farming problems require integrated solutions, with genetic, management-related and socio-economic components. In essence, plant breeders and NRM scientists must integrate their work with that of private and public sector change agents to develop flexible cropping systems that can respond to rapid changes in market opportunities and climatic conditions. The systems approach looks at various components of the rural economy – traditional food grains, new potential cash crops, livestock and fodder production, as well as socio-economic factors such as alternative sources of employment and income. Crucially the IGNRM approach is participatory, with farmers closely involved in technology development, testing and dissemination. ICRISAT has begun to use the IGNRM approach to catalyse technology uptake and substantially improve food security and incomes in smallholder farm communities at several locations in India, Mali, Niger, Vietnam, China, Thailand and Zimbabwe.
Books on the topic "International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement"
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Canada. Bill: An act to authorize the improvement of water-courses. [Toronto: J. Lovell, 2001.
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ILRI, ed. International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement/ILRI Annual Report 1998. Wageningen: ILRI, 1997.
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Land Evaluation for Land Use Planning and Conservation in Sloping Areas (Institute for Land Reclamation & Improvement Publication, No 40). Unipub, 1987.
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Peng, Weiping, Lingwei Chen, and Xiaowen Zhou. "Application of Large-Size Sandbag Cofferdam in Land Reclamation Engineering." In Proceedings of GeoShanghai 2018 International Conference: Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics, 271–78. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0122-3_30.
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C. F, Leung. "Ground Improvement Techniques for Land Reclamation – Singapore Experience." In International Conference on Ground Improvement & Ground Control. Singapore: Research Publishing Services, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.3850/978-981-07-3559-3_103-0004.
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Chen Pingshan, Dong Zhiliang, and Zhang Gongxin. "Applications of surface-layer improvement technique in land reclamation with dredger soil." In 2011 International Conference on Multimedia Technology (ICMT). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icmt.2011.6003218.
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Zhang, Jian-Min, Jianhong Zhang, Gang Wang, and Yang Chen. "Numerical Simulation of Breakwaters for Land Reclamation." In ASME 2009 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2009-79017.
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This paper highlights some practical considerations of soil structure interactions in the design of the breakwater for a land reclamation project at Da Ya Bay, Southern China sea, through three-dimensional finite element analysis. A pile-breakwater-foundation system is evaluated during its construction and after construction has been completed. The maximum deflections and moments of the piles take place in the soft marine clay underneath the breakwater. The deformation of the soft soil imposes great impact on the slender pile. Based on the study, it is considered inadequate to solely increase the density and stiffness of the piles, as it will not effectively reduce the deformation of the foundation as well as the moment of the pile. On the contrary, the increased stiffness results in significant increase of the stresses in the pile. Consequently, the deformation of pile should be evaluated in terms of interactions between soil and pile. Improvement of the soft marine clay is also of great importance.
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Halbac Cotoara Zamfir, Rares. "ECOSYSTEM SERVICES PROVIDED BY LAND RECLAMATION AND IMPROVEMENT WORKS. STUDY CASE: TIMIS COUNTY." In 15th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM2015. Stef92 Technology, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2015/b31/s12.033.
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Koo, Bonjun, Andrew J. Goupee, Kostas Lambrakos, and Richard W. Kimball. "Model Tests for a Floating Windturbine on Three Different Floaters." In ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2012-83642.
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Wind energy is a promising alternate energy resource. However, the on-land wind farms are limited by space, noise, and visual pollution, and therefore many countries build wind farms near shore. Up to now, most of offshore wind farms have been built in relatively shallow water (less than 30m) with fixed tower type wind turbines. Recently, several countries plan to move wind farms to deep water offshore locations to find stronger and steadier wind fields as compared to near shore locations. For the wind farms in deeper water, floating platforms have been proposed to support the wind turbine. The model tests described in this paper were performed at MARIN (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands) with a model set-up corresponding to a 1:50 Froude scaling. The wind turbine was a scaled model of the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) 5MW, horizontal axis reference wind turbine supported by three different generic floating platforms: a spar, a semi-submersible and a tension-leg platform (TLP). The wave environment used in the tests is representative of the offshore in the state of Maine. In order to capture coupling between the floating platform and the wind turbine, the 1st bending mode of the turbine tower was also modeled. The main purpose of the model tests was to generate data on coupled motions and loads between the three floating platforms and the same wind turbine for the operational, design, and survival seas states. The data are to be used for calibration and improvement of existing design analysis and performance numerical codes. An additional objective of the model tests was to establish advantages and disadvantages among the three floating platform concepts on the basis of test data. The paper gives details of the scaled model wind turbine and floating platforms, the set-up configurations, and the instrumentation to measure motions, accelerations and loads as well as wind turbine rpm, torque and thrust for the three floating wind turbines. The data and data analysis results are the subject of another paper in this conference [1].