Research and development in floating offshore wind energy: bridging the gap from resource analysis to deployment
The deployment of offshore wind farms further away from the coast has several advantages, but brings along a few important challenges, such as the need to install the turbines in floating platforms, costly operation and maintenance, and subsea power transmission over longer distances. In this talk, we will discuss these and other challenges and will present research and development projects carried out at the University of São Paulo which aim to help to overcome them.
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- Date: 18 Apr 2024
- Time: 06:00 PM to 07:45 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Puerto Rico
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- Starts 08 April 2024 12:00 AM
- Ends 18 April 2024 06:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Puerto Rico
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Mauricio
Biography:
Dr Maurício B. C. Salles (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of São Paulo (USP), in 2009. From 2006 to 2008, he was with the research team at the Institute of Electrical Machines, RWTH Aachen University. He has been an Assistant Professor with the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, since 2010. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is one of the founders of the Laboratory of Advanced Electric Grids (LGrid). His research interests include distributed generation, wind power and energy, power system dynamics, control and stability, renewable energy, energy storage, and electricity markets. Since 2023, he is the Director of InnovaPower, a new program at the Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI), focusing on pioneering solutions for sustainable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Bruno
Biography:
Prof Bruno Souza Carmo obtained a degree in Mechatronics from the University of São Paulo (2002), completed an MSc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of São Paulo (2005), did his PhD in Aeronautics at Imperial College London (2009) and got the habilitation degree in Mechanical Engineering, specialization in Fluid Mechanics, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Escola Politécnica, University of São Paulo (2020). He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Escola Politécnica, University of São Paulo, in July 2010 and has been carrying out research as a member of the Centre For Dynamic and Fluids (NDF) since then. He has also been part of the Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI) since its origination, working as deputy scientific director from 2015 and 2023 and as the director of the Decarbonization programme since 2024. In the RCGI, he coordinated two projects in the Engineering programme, one project in the CO2 abatement programme, one project in the Geophysics programme and one ongoing project in the InnovaPower programme. He was promoted to Associate Professor in March 2021 and to Full Professor in July 2023. He spent six months as a visiting researcher at the National Wind Technology Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NWTC-NREL) of the USA, from August 2023 to January 2024. His areas of expertise are fluid mechanics and energy, and he is currently working on projects and supervising students in the following research lines: hydrodynamic stability, fluid-structure interaction, CFD-based optimization, high-order finite element methods, renewable energy (wind, tidal and biomass), biological flows, hybrid power systems, fuel cells, gas purification and computational geophysics.
