This report aims to strengthen the Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) industry’s understanding of corrosion protection and management as relevant to the substructures of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWTs) within the marine environment of the UK Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). This report summarises the findings of:
A State-of-the-Art Review (SoA):
- Deterioration mechanisms which have the potential to adversely affect the materials used in the construction of the in-scope FOWT substructures through environmental exposure in a marine environment,
- Present means and methods of preventing the identified forms of environmentally induced deterioration, primarily forms of corrosion,
- The environmental conditions (and variation in them) that will be experienced by in-service FOWT substructures across those parts of the UK territorial waters presently being promoted as being suitable for FOW and their effect on the deterioration mechanisms and means of corrosion protection,
- The current rules, standards and procedures etc. required by the primary Classification Societies (CS)/Standards organisations relevant to the prevention/mitigation of deterioration, and
- Environmental issues/restrictions on the use of the current methods of preventing/mitigating deterioration.
A Whole-life Costing (WLC) Assessment comprising:
- WLC assessment of various corrosion protection scenarios for a floating offshore wind farm comprising steel semi-sub substructures at two reference locations within the UK EEZ, and
- a commentary on the reliability issues associated with the different forms of corrosion protection and their impact on the WLC
Take a look at the full report to learn more about the ‘FOW Coatings, Corrosion Protection and Management’ findings and recommendations below.
