Monitoring, Digital Twin and Control Technologies for Mooring System Integrity Management in Floating Offshore Wind

Efficient operation of mooring systems is of a major importance to reduce floating offshore wind energy costs. The MooringSense Project aims reduction of operational costs and increasing efficiency through the development of several enablers such as, a mooring system digital twin (DT), a smart motion sensor, a structural health monitoring system and control strategies at individual and farm levels.

The concept takes advantage of mooring systems' updated condition information, provided by a DT and innovative monitoring and control technologies, to allow the implementation of risk-based integrity management plans and more holistic control strategies. This Integrity Management Strategy intends to make a change from unscheduled corrective maintenance interventions to a scheduled predictive maintenance, which results in reduced costs of services and optimized availability.

The MooringSense concept involves the development of a set of technological tools that are currently under development.