2025_programme: Expectation vs Experience: Challenges in predicting offshore wind pile driving noise

• Day: June 19, Thursday
    Location / Time: TBA at 15:30 - 16:30
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• Session: Poster session
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• Lecture: Expectation vs Experience: Challenges in predicting offshore wind pile driving noise
  Paper ID: 2377
  Author(s): Aniruddha Deepak Paranjape, Gerwin Guichelaar, Jesper Elzinga, Selina Klemm, Christoph Schallück, Ferdy Hengeveld
  Presenter: Aniruddha Deepak Paranjape
  Abstract: As an industry-leading contractor, Van Oord has successfully installed many offshore wind farms in the North Sea worldwide. In recent years, wind turbine foundations have increased in diameter, most modern projects have foundations more than 8 meters diameter. Although this has positive implications for wind energy that can be extracted, installing the foundations and meeting noise limits has become increasingly challenging. The ability to accurately predict noise levels arising from monopile installation is of great importance to protect marine species, deploy the right mitigation techniques, and bring down operational costs. The methods to predict or calculate noise levels today cannot accurately capture the complexities of the offshore environment. The prediction models can only use typical available input data. As a result, there is often a large discrepancy in the predicted noise versus the noise levels obtained during execution. The present work aims to highlight gaps between academic prediction versus real world experience and elaborate on challenges in acoustic data collection during large scale offshore wind projects.
• Corresponding author: Mr Aniruddha Deepak Paranjape
  Affiliation: Van Oord
  Country:  The Netherlands