Offshore wind installation: Analysing the Evidence Behind Improvements in

Installation Time

Roberto Lacal-Aránteguia , José M. Yustab , José Antonio Domínguez-Navarrob

a
Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Petten, The Netherlands
b
Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
ABSTRACT

The most important single event of the last years in wind energy technology is the reduction
in the cost of producing wind electricity offshore, a reduction that can reach 75%, depending
on the system boundary considered, for installations commissioned by 2024. Surprisingly,
there is very little scientific literature showing how this reduction is being achieved. The
objective of this paper is to analyse the evidence behind cost reduction in one of the most
significant cost elements of offshore wind farms, the installation of foundations and turbines.
This cost is directly dependent on the daily rates of the installation vessels and on the days it
takes to install those wind farm elements. Therefore, we collected installation data from 87
wind farms installed from 2000 to 2017, to establish the exact time for installation in each.
The results show that advances have reached 70% reduction in installation times throughout
the period for the whole set, turbine plus foundation. Most of these improvements (and the
corresponding impact in reducing costs) relate to the larger size of turbines installed
nowadays. There is, therefore, not any leap forward in the installation process, but only
incremental improvements applied to turbines that are now four times as large as in 2000.

Keywords: Offshore wind installation Learning Cost-reduction Foundations Turbines

 A Study on Handling of Hazardous Chemicals in Engineering Industries

P. Sivaprakasha , L. M. Karthikeyanb and Sebastian josephb

a
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Karpagam Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu -
641105, India
b
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Karpagam University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu - 641021,
India
ABSTRACT
The possibility of danger in any circumference is known as Hazard. The hazardous chemicals are the
substances used in various engineering industries for production, analysis, research and other usages.
Any unexpected event producing injury or damage in engineering industries is referred as an accident.
In this study, the review of literature and details of various accidents that had happened due to
hazardous chemicals in south India has been studied. Handling and environmental preventive methods
for engineering chemicals are mentioned for maintaining safe working environment of the
engineering industries.

© 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Asia-Pacific
Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society

Keywords: Accident, Hazard, Risk, Safety

Studi tentang Penanganan Bahan Kimia Berbahaya di Industri Teknik

ABSTRAK
Kemungkinan bahaya di lingkar apa pun dikenal sebagai Bahaya. Bahan kimia berbahaya
adalah zat yang digunakan dalam berbagai industri rekayasa untuk produksi, analisis,
penelitian, dan penggunaan lainnya. Setiap kejadian tak terduga yang menghasilkan cedera
atau kerusakan dalam industri rekayasa disebut sebagai kecelakaan. Dalam studi ini, tinjauan
literatur dan rincian berbagai kecelakaan yang telah terjadi karena bahan kimia berbahaya di
India selatan telah dipelajari. Penanganan dan metode pencegahan lingkungan untuk bahan
kimia rekayasa disebutkan untuk menjaga lingkungan kerja yang aman dari industri rekayasa.

This journal about Handling of Hazardous Chemicals in Engineering Industries

 About the Problem of Professional Personnel Shortage in Mechanical Engineering
Industry and Ways of Solving

Marina Suzdalova, Ekaterina Politsinskaya*, Anastasia Sushko

Yurga Institute of Technology, 26 Leningradskaya, Yurga, 652055, Russia
ABSTRACT
The article considers the problem of qualified engineering personnel training in the
mechanical engineering industry. The recommendations for a qualified specialist training
with a high level of professional competencies are offered for the purpose of strengthening of
Russia’s unity and progressive development.

© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC
BY-NC-ND license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of the
Scientific Committee of LKTI 2015.
Keywords: Innovative economy; mechanical engineering industry; qualified personnel
shortage; modernisation of higher professional education.