A brand new manga collection by a Taiwanese marine engineering professor provides a vibrant overview of the event of floating wind farms.
“Harvest Wind – Offshore Engineering” follows Could, a 26-year-old venture supervisor at developer Faithland Vitality who’s given the “difficult project” of constructing a floating wind farm.
Over the course of seven instalments the collection follows Could by the contracting, building and commissioning phases of an offshore wind venture.
With twenty 15-MW generators to put in at tower heights of 300m, Faithland’s venture is roughly six instances the dimensions of the world’s largest working venture – the 50MW Kincardine scheme off Aberdeen.
The manga presents an in depth but accessible have a look at varied technical features of the offshore wind improvement course of, together with subcontracting, the meeting of floating foundations, GWO and HUET offshore security coaching, anchor dealing with and turbine commissioning.
Every self-discipline is dropped at life by a vibrant solid of characters who might look acquainted to anybody working within the power sector – whether or not that’s marine engineer Kenny or anchor dealing with vessel captain Jens.
The collection is the brainchild of Dr Kai-Tung (KT) Ma – a Nationwide Taiwan College professor specialising in anchoring and moorings for offshore generators – and artist Yin Fu.
What’s extra, it’s clear a lot of the expertise and experience on present owes one thing to grease and fuel.
In a profession spanning almost 30 years, KT has labored on a wide range of offshore analysis work – together with a 16-year stint at Chevron in Houston, the place he labored on many features of floating programs from mooring and station protecting to drilling riser expertise, hull structural design and services engineering.
First revealed in December 2022, translations into English and different languages arrived in 2023 and the ultimate two instalments of the seven-episode manga collection have been launched final week.
You’ll be able to learn the collection through creator-led publishing platform Manga Plus.
Taiwan is in search of to profit from plentiful wind assets, with a three-phase plan for offshore wind improvement concentrating on 5.7GW of cumulative put in capability by 2025. The third section will sees the island purpose to construct 1GW of capability per yr between 2026-35.
That’s buoyed by the efforts of main floating wind builders, together with the likes of Hexicon – which has signed a three way partnership to construct a 1.3GW venture – and Bluefloat, whose 1GW “Winds of September” venture is eyed for off the coast of Hsinchu.
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