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An offshore wind turbine is a modern device that is deployed in an offshore environment for generation of electricity from wind.
Function and Components of a Modern Wind Turbine
Wind energy is one of the most important renewable energy resources that are gaining increasing attention and significant development. A wind turbine is used to convert the kinetic energy in wind first to the mechanical energy through rotation of the blades and then to the electricity via a generator. Modern wind turbine, which has been commercialized and industrialized, is typically a three-blade, upwind, pitch-regulated variable speed horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT), as shown in Fig. 1 (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) 2011). An offshore wind turbine is a wind turbine at sea with either bottom-fixed or floating support structures.
Modern wind turbine (NREL 2011)
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Gao, Z. (2019). Offshore Wind Turbines. In: Cui, W., Fu, S., Hu, Z. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ocean Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6963-5_186-1
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