CCPO and ODURC seminar - Sept. 9, 2019
CCPO and ODU Resilience Collaborative
Fall 2019 Seminar
MONDAY, 9 September 2019
3:30 p.m., Conference Center
First Floor, IRB II
4211 Monarch Way
Web streaming link:
http://www.ccpo.odu.edu/seminar.html
or
https://vs.prod.odu.edu/kvs/interface_reach/?cid=201530_CCPOSeminarSeriesVS_96096
The first CCPO and RC seminar for the Fall semester will be given by George Hagerman from CCPO. George has considerable experience with development of renewable ocean energy from a range of sources. His most recent efforts are focused on development of offshore wind energy generation. He is part of the engineering design team for the Dominion Energy offshore wind demonstration project, which will install two offshore wind turbine turbines in 2020. George’s seminar will provide an overview of wind energy development for the Mid-Atlantic region and related activities ongoing at ODU. George's efforts in offshore wind energy development were recognized by his selection for the 2018 Virginia Renewable Energy Leadership Award.
More information about George’s research is available at:
http://www.ccpo.odu.edu/Facstaff/faculty/hagerman.html
and
https://www.odu.edu/news/2019/2/george_hagerman#.XW-qfcl7ln4
Coffee and cookies are available prior to the seminar at 3:00 p.m.
Everyone is encouraged to attend the seminar.
Title: Mid-Atlantic Hurricanes and the Design of Offshore Wind Farms
Abstract
In the coming decade, at least 15 commercial offshore wind projects are planned for deployment on the Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) between Cape Cod, MA and Cape Hatteras, NC. This development will involve hundreds of utility-scale wind turbines with rotors spanning a swept circular area up to 220 m in diameter, and blade tips reaching elevations up to 250 m above mean sea level. These turbines and their foundation substructures must be designed to withstand extreme winds and waves during a 50-year return period, with structural robustness expected for 500-year return period conditions. This presentation will review the offshore wind buildout on the U.S. East Coast, the governing design load cases imposed by winds and waves, and the challenges faced by metocean scientists, engineers, and regulators in ensuring that the unique features of tropical storm systems are properly addressed in adapting European offshore wind design practice, which evolved for the extratropical storm environment of the North Sea, to the Mid-Atlantic OCS.
Biography
George Hagerman is a Senior Project Scientist with the ODU Research Foundation, working at CCPO since January 2018. Prior to this, he was a research faculty member at Virginia Tech, where he served on the front-end engineering design team for Dominion Energy's offshore wind demonstration project, responsible for helping prepare work scopes and reviewing work products for its metocean design basis. Now named the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, Dominion's two demonstration turbines are scheduled for installation in 2020, on a renewable energy research lease located 23 nautical miles off Virginia Beach. George has nearly 40 years' experience working on marine renewable energy systems, including offshore wind power, wave power, tidal stream power, and ocean thermal energy conversion. He has also served on the Virginia Intergovernmental Offshore Renewable Energy Task Force since it was established by the Minerals Management Service (now the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) in 2009.
Posted By: Julie Morgan
Date: Thu Sep 05 09:25:53 EDT 2019