Final conference – DecomTools

Most wind turbines are designed and certified for a service life of 20 to 25 years. After this period they must be decommissioned or have their accredited service life extended, often accompanied by repowering . While procedures for decommissioning and repowering of onshore wind farms are known, experience with offshore wind farms is limited. There is no overall sustainable end-of-life approach to offshore wind farms. The international project ” DecomTools ” closes this gap by developing eco-innovative concepts.

During the final conference, participants will receive various impulses and a detailed overview of the results of the project based on specialist lectures and panel discussions. Innovative technologies and demonstration pilots from the fields of logistics, ship design and up- and recycling will be considered. Which are supplemented by technical concepts for process optimization for the dismantling of individual offshore wind turbines and by economic and political analyzes of the offshore decommissioning market. In addition, there are sufficient opportunities for networking with various stakeholders from the industry.Join us for the final conference in the DecomTools project and get the newest insights about decommissioning, repowering and future perspectives.

The conference will be divited into 4 topics and the conference will be moderated by Carolin Verstratete and visual facilitated by Kristof Braekeleire.

Link to the live event: HERE

Program:

9.00 – 9.30: Registration and network

9.30 – 10.00: Welcome and introduction to the DecomTools project
by Prof. Dr. Marcus Bentin
Dr. Stephan Kotzur from University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer
& Charlotte Baumgartner from Energy Cluster Denmark

10.00 – 10.20: Key note speaker Alexander Vandenberghe, WindEurope

10.20 – 10.30: A business perspective involving the repowering of a wind energy park
by Harm Korporaal from De Lauwershorst Groep

10.30 – 11.30: Panel discussion: Preparing for offshore wind farms the end-of-life market

• Harm Korporaal from De Lauwershorst Groep
• Ben de Pauw – POM West-Vlaanderen
• Annika Rix — German National Contact Point in the Interreg North Sea Region Programme & Senate Chancellery of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• Alexander Vandenberghe from WindEurope

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee break + Break for Networking/ Exhibition

Topic 2: Technical process optimisation for dismalting single offshore wind energy structures

11.30 – 11.45: Offshore decommissioning and challenges ahead for offshore windfarms
by Prof. Dr. Andrés Franklin Olivares Lopez from Western Norway University of Applied Science

11.45 – 12.00: DecomDSS – A Decision Support System for Decommissioning of Offshore Windfarms
ufeffbyufeff Dr. Alireza Maheri from University of Aberdeen

12.00 – 12.15: Titel TBC by TBA

12.15 -12.30: Development of Flexible Blade Cutting System for End-Of-Life Blades
by Peter Ejs Eltzholtz, Project Manager and Co-founder Advantis

12.30 – 12.40 Q/A by all

12.40 – 13.25: Lunch break + Break for Networking/ Exhibition

Topic 3: New concepts addressing logistical requirements for decommissioning complete offshore wind parks

13.25 – 13.40: End-of-Life Planning of OWTs from a logistical perspective
by Marc Hillers from University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer

13.40 – 13.50: Titel TBC
by Henrik Carstensen & Theis Gisselbaeck from Port of Grenaa

13.50 – 14.00: Overview Belgium – Volumes and market on- and offshore wind
by Jan Allaert from Port of Oostende

14.00 – 14.15: Logistical challenges and concept for decommissioning offshore wind parks
by Bjorn Wittek from Rhenus Offshore Logistics

14.15 – 14.25: Q&A by all

14.25 – 14.55: Coffee break + Break for Networking/ Exhibition

Topic 4: Recycling Concepts for dismantling/ repowering

14.55 – 15.10: Titel TBC
by Nina Vielen-Kallio from ECHT regie in transitie B.V.

15.10 – 15.25: Complete material and energetic recovery – A new innovative approach from Joulmine
by Claudia Martens from Joulmine GmbH & Co KG

15.25 – 15.40: Blade—Made: a scalable repurposing strategy
by Antonia Wormer from Blade-Made

15.40 – 15.55: Recycling Opportunities for Windturbine Blades
by Jan Jaap Folmer from Chief Upp! and Founder Upp!

15.55 – 16.25: Panel discusion: How can circularity be improved in the offshore wind industry?

• Nina Vielen-Kallio from ECHT regie in transitie B.V.
• Claudia Martens from Joulmine GmbH & Co KG
• Antonia Wormer from Blade-Made
• Jan Jaap Folmer from Upp!

16.25 -16.35: Closing remarks
by Carolin Verstratete and Kristof Braekeleire