TY - JOUR
T1 - A fuzzy evidential reasoning based approach for submarine power cable routing selection for offshore wind farms
AU - Jiang, Dan
AU - Wu, Bing
AU - Yang, Xuefeng
AU - Van Gelder, P. H.A.J.M.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Offshore wind farms have developed fast as an environmentally friendly source of energy. The submarine power cable of the offshore wind farm, used for connecting power generation devices to onshore equipment, may have a significant impact on navigation safety and is prone to being damaged (e.g. caused by fishing or emergency anchoring by ships) when adopting unfavorable routing. This paper proposes a fuzzy evidential reasoning method for submarine power cable routing selection of the offshore wind farm by comprehensively considering the conditions for cable laying and its influence on maritime safety. The kernel of this approach is to establish a three-layer decision-making framework after fuzzification of the input variables, to derive the belief rule base, and to obtain the optimal routing from the submarine power cable candidates using evidential reasoning and index value. The proposed approach is applied to a real routing selection problem of a submarine power cable for an offshore wind farm in Zhejiang Province of China. The resulting choice corresponds to the discussions in a workshop unanimously.
AB - Offshore wind farms have developed fast as an environmentally friendly source of energy. The submarine power cable of the offshore wind farm, used for connecting power generation devices to onshore equipment, may have a significant impact on navigation safety and is prone to being damaged (e.g. caused by fishing or emergency anchoring by ships) when adopting unfavorable routing. This paper proposes a fuzzy evidential reasoning method for submarine power cable routing selection of the offshore wind farm by comprehensively considering the conditions for cable laying and its influence on maritime safety. The kernel of this approach is to establish a three-layer decision-making framework after fuzzification of the input variables, to derive the belief rule base, and to obtain the optimal routing from the submarine power cable candidates using evidential reasoning and index value. The proposed approach is applied to a real routing selection problem of a submarine power cable for an offshore wind farm in Zhejiang Province of China. The resulting choice corresponds to the discussions in a workshop unanimously.
KW - Decision-making
KW - Fuzzy evidential reasoning
KW - Maritime safety
KW - Navigational environment
KW - Offshore wind farm
KW - Submarine power cable routing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2019.106616
DO - 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2019.106616
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074060593
SN - 0029-8018
VL - 193
JO - Ocean Engineering
JF - Ocean Engineering
M1 - 106616
ER -