Durable Coatings Offshore

09:00 – 09:30	REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
09:30 – 09:40	WELCOME AND OPENING BY DANCORR REPRESENTATIVE
09:40 – 10:15	CORROSION PROTECTION STRATEGIES FOR OWF FOUNDATIONS Philipp Ullrich Niemann, Engineer - Corrosion Protection, Cowi A/S Corrosion Strategies for Offshore Wind Foundations: How is corrosion protection by coatings, GACP and ICCP designed today? Experiences and challenges in the design phase seen from a Corrosion Protection point of view. Philipp Ullrich Niemann works in Corrosion Protection at Cowi A/S. He has previously been employed at Hardi International, Powder Coatings - Testing and Inspection, Specifications and Hempel A/S, Liquid coatings - Testing and Inspection, Marine business support (Consulting).
10:15 – 10:50	CURRENT ACTIVITIES FOR CORROSION PROTECTION FOR WINDPARKS IN THE ECONOMIC EXCLUSIVE ZONES Günter Binder, Head of Steel Structures and Corrosion Protection, Federal Waterways Engineering Research Institute (BAW), Germany In Germany, corrosionists have detected two main problems in the corrosion protection of windpark structures in the Northern and Baltic Sea: At first, it is the underlying rusting and secondly it is the function of cathodic corrosion protection. Concerning the rusting the selection criteria for coatings must be fitted to the real corrosion loads on side including conditions of transport and erection. These means to recognize mechanical stresses like abrasion and impacts as well long term trail tests under natural conditions in different zones. A severe problem is the use of galvanic anodes in maritime environment as well in closed spaces like monopiles. To avoid extensive works of repair as well as installation onside and by that of costs it is proposed to combine extraordinary checked coating systems with impressed current systems as far it is possible. By a new built corrosion standard the European group of energy producer (VGB) and the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) want to update the guidelines necessary considering all meanwhile known problems in the offshore windparks in the Northern and Baltic Sea. Dr. Günter Binder has worked at Federal Waterways Engineering Research Institute (BAW) in Karlsruhe, Germany since 1989 and is the leader of the steel structures and corrosion protection department. He heads the corrosion group within the Harbour Technical Society (HTG) which holds workshops on the scope of seawater corrosion every year and publishes regular material about corrosion protection in the field of polymers and cathodic protection. Binder is also a member of the Ministry of Traffic, DIN, ISO and EFC. He is an adviser to the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) concerning matters of corrosion protection of offshore wind energy structures.
10:50 – 11:20	BREAK
11:20 – 11:55	REPAIR SYSTEMS AND CONCEPTS FOR ANTICORROSIVE COATINGS OF OFFSHORE WIND STRUCTURES - RepaKorr Tom Marquardt, Project Engineer, Muelhan Group The nationally funded project “RepaKorr” worked on analysing and improving the offshore wind structure maintaince process chain. The presentation features three selected topics. The first topic is the utilization of imagine processing software as a tool to assess coating deterioration and steel corrosion. The second topic involves the impact of surface preparation methodes (grinding, Bristle blasting and dry blast cleaning) and type of coating on the performance of repair coatings after ISO 20340 testing. DoE (Design of Experiment) software was used to create statistically determined tests. ANOVA war performed in order to discuss the results and to optimize the repair procedure. The third topic includes the development of an offshore repair coating. Tom Marquardt studied Environmental engineering (Energy science as specialization) in Bayreuth, Germany and started working for Muehlhan AG in the beginning of 2015. He is involved in several nationally funded research projects concerning corrosion. In the end of 2015 he became a FROSIO Inspector and is a DGQ-Statistician for Design of experiment.
11:55 – 12:30	ADVANCING LEADING EDGE PROTECTION Nicolai Frost-Jensen Johansen, PhD student, DTU During operation, the leading edge of wind turbine blades are constantly subjected to impacts from dust particles, raindrops and hail stones. Over time these cumulative impacts lead to erosion of the surface resulting in a loss of performance and a loss of service life. If offshore power production is to become price competitive with oil and gas, the cost pr. MWh has to be reduced, and one clear solution is to increase the overall lifetime off the turbine. At present, one of the main limiters is the durability of the leading edge, as the length of turbine blades has increased so has the tip speeds accelerating the rate of erosion to a point where the present solutions are insufficient for the task. Presently there is a lack of suitable framework for quickly evaluating and comparing the performance of different coatings making the development of new coatings a slow and costly process. If we are to address these problems, new tools for evaluating durability are needed, based on a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms, which in turn can be implemented in new coating systems. Nicolai Frost-Jensen Johansen BSc in Physics and Nanotechnology and MSc in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering from DTU (Surface engineering as specialization) working for DTU MEK as Ph.D student as of June 2016. Involved with leading edge protection through the “Fast-Track” industry collaboration (Since February 2016).
12:30 – 13:30	LUNCH
13:30 – 14:30	TOUR OF THE NEW CLIMATIC TEST CHAMBER Thomas Mærkedahl Carlsen, Test Engineer, FORCE Technology Tour of the new climatic test chamber for accelerated corrosion testing and function testing at Lindoe Component and Structure Testing center. The chamber enables full scale climatic testing of large components. Size 14*8*8 m, control of temperature variations, humidity, and periodic salt spray. Thomas Mærkedahl Carlsen is a Test Engineer of Lindoe Component and Structure Testing center. He graduated as a Marine Engineer and sailed for 5 years at Maersk Line. He has previously worked as a Superintendent Engineer for MAN Diesel & Turbo Denmark, stationed in Australia, Taiwan and USA and managed several research and development programs in the field of propulsion engines.
14:30 – 15:05	PROTECTIVE COATINGS AND QC FOR EXTENDED LIFETIME OF OFFSHORE WIND STRUCTURES Nana Eckhardt, Corrosion Specialist, FORCE Technology Maintenance and repair of unmanned offshore structures such as wind turbines is extremely expensive. The cost is typically a factor of 100 times greater than that of similar repair on land. The lifetime of a coating system depends on a number of factors of which the quality of surface preparation, the coating thickness and the quality of workmanship are the ones usually considered as the most important. However, at the same time they are usually the most uncertain factors. This presentation discusses the need for more QC during the coating process, which is believed to extend the lifetime of the coating system and thereby to reduce the overall costs for corrosion protection. Nana Eckhardt, M. Sc. Eng. is a corrosion and metallurgy specialist and certified FROSIO level III inspector working in the field of offshore wind corrosion challenges. Her work at FORCE Technology since 2009 includes third party inspection and consultancy especially related to coatings and corrosion of steel and stainless steel.
15:05 – 15:25	BREAK
15:25 – 16:00	A COST OPTIMAL CORROSION PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR OFFSHORE JACKETS WITH 25 YEARS LIFE TIME Jens Thomsen, Senior Engineer, Siemens Wind Power An offshore steel Jacket Foundation Concept developed by SWP uses standard oil tubes to build a jacket structure in order to reduce the cost of the support structure with 40 % in 2020. A large test package is ongoing in order to test new coating systems for splash zone and immersed service, including Fusion Bonded Epoxy (FBE) systems. Status for the project and test package after 6 month testing. Jens Schiersing Thomsen has worked for Siemens Wind Power A/S since 1990. Jens has held a number of positions within Siemens Wind Power and before BONUS Energy A/S mainly within Engineering, Quality and Project Management. Currently he is in a role as Senior Key Expert, Steel Structures, dealing with design and quality issues related to a new offshore foundations and towers for offshore purposes.
16:00 – 16:10	CLOSING REMARKS

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Members of ATV-SEMAPP or other promoting organizations: DKK 2,150
Non-members : DKK 2,775
Early bird discount of DKK 200 by registration before 14 October 2016.
Ph.D. students at ATV-SEMAPP member institutions: DKK 975 B.Sc. and M.Sc. student members: DKK 200 (student membership is free of charge) Ph.D. students, B.Sc. and M.Sc. student members do not benefit from early registration.

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