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This paper focuses on designing a floating solar platform for the inland body, consisting of water and/or calm coastal waters mainly near the river mouth and naturally protected channels. In this study, Dinding River in Lumut, Perak has been chosen as a case study location. At present, the use of renewable energy (RE) has been pushed aggressively by policymakers throughout the world to reduce the impact of green gas emission. This paper will focus on the development of a floating solar platform design. The proposed design is developed referring to both basis SPAR type platform and also to the floating instrument platform (FLIP) concept, where the design is able to minimize the vertical movement of the platform/vessel due to vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and vortex-induced motion (VIM). A comparison in the performance of designs is made with the existing design of the floating solar platform. Comparison is made with basic design 1, which consists of an existing design. The vertical movement (heaving) was simulated using a computational fluid Dynamics (CFD) software. Results are presented in the form of heaving for each floating platform design. The numerical results show that at low wave height (0.1 m) the lowest vertical movement is recorded by design 1 with 0.14 m height, while at the highest wave height (0.3 m), the lowest vertical motion is recorded by design 2 with 0.23 m height.
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Mustapa, M.A., Kamil, M.S., Rozali, R.H., Ramli, M.A.H., Jadi, M.I.A. (2022). Development of a Floating Solar Platform for River Application. In: Ismail, A., Dahalan, W.M., Öchsner, A. (eds) Design in Maritime Engineering. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 167. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89988-2_28
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