报告摘要
Wind power is one of the oldest forms of energy source and wind turbines are the oldest machines. Current day wind energy is harvested through large scale offshore and onshore wind farms. Offshore Wind Farms (OWFs) are increasingly being deployed and constructed as scalable, sustainable energy sources. Currently, OWFs represent the most cost-effective new energy projects in Europe, with their levelized cost of energy (LCOE) having significantly decreased due to decades of innovation supported by both public and private funding. This rapidly growing industry has the potential to accelerate the decarbonization of regional and global economies and introduce green hydrogen as a reliable commercial energy source, all while causing minimal disruption to ecosystems and biodiversity. This lecture provides a historical perspective on wind energy utilization, demonstrating that wind turbines are among the oldest, largest, and most sophisticated machines. It also highlights the potential of offshore wind energy to offer new solutions for meeting the clean energy demands of a growing global population, enhancing national energy security through technologies like green hydrogen production and storage, and improving the resilience of nuclear power plants in seismic areas through supply complementarity. Additionally, the offshore wind industry can set a benchmark for future industries, creating insights into green economics, and generating jobs and factories for the future. We show that environmentally friendly regulations are further driving innovations to enhance the sustainability of OWFs. Examples include material recycling, landfill bans on blade disposal, and eco-friendly, low-noise offshore construction methods to protect biodiversity.
主讲人简介
Subhamoy Bhattacharya, a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Fellow of ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers, London), holds the Chaired Professor in Geomechanics at the University of Surrey since 2012, where he leads the Geotechnical Research group and directs the SAGE (Surrey Advanced Geotechnical Engineering) laboratory. He is also the Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Renew RiskTM (based at Lloyd's of London), a university spin-off company specializing in risk analytics for renewable energy/energy transition, which builds the world's first commercially available catastrophe models for offshore wind farms.
He is an expert in geotechnical and earthquake engineering, where his main interests are offshore foundations and earthquake engineering. He commenced his undergraduate education at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Kharagpur) in geology and geophysics, and after one year of completion switched to civil engineering degree program at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST, Shibpur) and graduated with a first-class degree in civil engineering. Following his undergraduate education, he worked at Consulting Engineering Services (Jacobs) designing buildings and bridges before moving to Cambridge for doctoral studies.
He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge (as a Cambridge Nehru Commonwealth Scholar) in 2003, investigating the failure of pile-supported structures (bridges and buildings) during seismic liquefaction and proposing a new theory of pile failure during earthquakes. Following his PhD, he worked at Offshore Geotechnical Consultancy Fugro designing foundations for offshore oil and gas structures, including the anchors for FPSO's (Floating Production Storage and Offloading). In 2005, he transited to academia, first at the University of Oxford, where he was a Departmental Lecturer in Engineering Science and JRF (Junior Research Fellow) at Somerville College, and then at the University of Bristol, where he was a Senior Lecturer in Soil Dynamics before taking up the Chair at Surrey in 2012. He regularly lectures in the UK and abroad and acts as a consultant in civil, earthquake, geotechnical, and offshore engineering, including legal and arbitration cases.
协办单位：浙江大学岩土工程计算中心、浙江省力学学会岩土力学与工程专业委员会、浙江省岩土力学与工程学会本构理论与数值分析专业委员会、浙江省土木建筑学会土力学及岩土工程学术委员会