Speaker Lars Holm Nielsen

Lars Holm Nielsen
Head of R&D, SiemensGamesa

lars.nielsen@siemensgamesa.com
Speaker for following sessions
- Thursday 24 March 2022
  12:30 - 14:30 Drones in the Energy Industry
  HOST: ENERGY CLUSTER DENMARK.
  The Conference is in English.
  
  Offshore inspections, package deliveries and much more. In these years, drones are making their entrance in the energy industry. In this conference, Energy Cluster Denmark presents the work from a range of active innovation projects that are all about use of drones in the energy industry.
  
  12.30 - 13.00: Project 1: Quali-drone
  Jesper Smit, CEO, Quali-Drone ApS
  The Quali-Drone project will develop an automated, drone-based approach to the inspection of surface damage to TP turbine foundations using AI algorithms and digital twins. This project has the potential to save the industry time and money, as well as to improve safety around TPs.
  
  13:10 - 13.30: Project 3: Offshore Operating Drone (OOD)
  Benjamin Mejnertz, Partner, Upteko
  Offshore operations are usually linked with high expense rates as well as severe safety risks for the personnel involved. Maintenance of offshore oil & gas platforms is no exception.
  To reduce the risks and the costs for such operations, the use of drones with monitoring devices could minimize risk and increase efficiency by reducing the cost of these operations, by identifying the locations where repair and maintenance are needed. The Project “Offshore Operating Drones” aims to monitor oil and gas assets to detect gas-leakage and initiate focused repair campaigns.
  
  13.30 - 14.00: Auto Compact Marine Growth Remover - ACOMAR
  Jesper Liniger, Assitant Professor, AAU Energy Esbjerg
  
  Marine growth challenges the structural integrity of offshore structures due to increased hydro dynamical loads. As a consequence, marine growth cleaning on offshore structures has been performed for many years. While the industry has shifted from driver-assisted to cleaning driven by remotely operated vehicles, the process remains costly and ineffective. This presentation explores the possibilities for introducing an increased level of automation for marine growth removal, inspection, and classification using the ACOMAR.
  
  14.00 - 14.30: Project 2: Flexible Offshore Drone for Wind (FOD4Wind)
  Mads Jørgensen, CEO, Upteko
  Lars Holm, Head of R&D, Service operations Performance, SiemensGamesa
  By introducing the offshore wind sector to the new service technologies of drone operations the project aims to increase the efficiency of offshore wind parks. The project introduces fully autonomous wind turbine inspections and package deliveries using drones and fixed charging stations on offshore service vessels. With the use of drones the project presents an unseen level of autonomy and speed that will optimize the O&M cost servicing offshore wind turbines, reduce downtime, increase weather window, increase annual energy production, and reduce CO2 emissions, which in total will improve the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE).