Canadian Global Maritime Limited (GM) recently obtained approval for a Mitacs-NSERC (a Canadian nonprofit national research organization and Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) funded project.
The Mitacs-NSERC project is a collaboration between GM and Memorial University (Newfoundland) and will involve the joint efforts of two PhD candidates and two master’s students. Their collective focus will be on developing and validating GM’s ‘GMoor-Wind’ software. In addition to advancing the development of GMoor-Wind, model testing will be conducted in the newly constructed wind-tunnel wave tank facility.
The project commenced in January 2024 and is anticipated to span approximately four years.
Joint NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate grants support projects of varying scale and complexity, from short-term smaller projects involving one researcher, to long-term projects involving researchers across several universities, and from one-on-one collaborations with a single partner organisation directly involved in the ‘research to projects’ involving many partner organisations across multiple sectors.
GMoor is a mooring analysis program, originally developed for spread moored drilling vessels and other subsea support vessels in open water. It features a frequency domain solution of the stationkeeping problem, but also has low frequency time domain modes of operation for investigation of transient offset after line failure, and, optionally, for calculation of damping where non-linear effects are important. GMoor can be used for work related to engineering assessments, planning, and approval in advance of a mooring deployment, as well as on board the vessel for prediction of vessel movement and tensions, in advance of approaching weather, or in preparation for a rig move. It has also been used for analysis of turret moorings and quayside moorings.
GMoor-Wind builds on the capabilities of GMoor with the goal of adding the capabilities needed to analyse fully integrated offshore floating wind turbine platforms. The aim of the project is to create a fully integrated tool capable of supporting engineers in the iterative process of designing efficient mooring arrangements, as well as performing final analysis and verification of a mooring design towards mooring standards.
Anskey Miranda, Renewables Lead at Canadian Global Maritime Ltd said:
“We are very pleased to have received approval and look forward to working with the Memorial University on this very exciting and relevant project. This is an important R&D initiative for GM and will build on our existing technical expertise in floating wind and our strong software capabilities. The project will benefit from the mentorship of Global Maritime experts including Even Rosenlund, Group Software Lead.
Thank you to Kevin Doyle, Group R&D Lead and James Adcock, Business Stream Director for their support in getting this project off the ground. We are grateful to Dr. Kevin Pope and Dr. Xili Duan at Memorial for their continued hard work, and the teams at Mitacs and NSERC for their support”.
Dr. Kevin Pope, an associate professor at Memorial University, said:
“We are very excited by this outstanding partnership with Canadian Global Maritime Ltd to develop new solution frameworks for mooring of floating offshore wind turbines. This research will leverage Memorial University and Canadian Global Maritime’s expertise to make meaningful impacts on the offshore wind power industry, as well as provide outstanding opportunities for the graduate students involved in the project."
