Evaluate mooring system options during floating offshore wind concept screening
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Combination evaluation
floater + mooring + anchor + vessel
De-risk concepts
before detailed engineering begins
Compare key metrics
cost/risk/ duration
KOMET is a mooring system evaluation tool that rapidly screens combinations of floaters, mooring lines, anchors and vessels for floating offshore wind projects.
Before committing to detailed structural dynamics analysis, developers, consultants and OEMs face a wide range of technology and configuration choices. KOMET helps teams work through these options quickly, comparing lifetime cost, robustness to design changes, and installation and procurement campaign durations.
By evaluating viable system combinations upfront, KOMET reduces uncertainty in early-stage design and helps teams take stronger, more robust concepts forward into detailed engineering with confidence.
Why KOMET?
Accelerate timelines
Increase productivity and cut the time needed to select a mooring philosophy.
Reduce costs
Assess more cost-effective combinations of floaters, mooring lines and anchors.
Compare with confidence
Check technical compatibility across components to help eliminate unfeasible options.
Reduce project risk
Reduce uncertainty at the earliest stage of design.
Structured down-selection for complex floating wind projects
KOMET lets you model your project parameters and rapidly build and evaluate configurations against them. Compatibility checking ensures simple incompatible options are removed, so down-selected is systematic and is grounded closer to reality rather than guesswork.
Whether your priority is lifetime cost, robustness to design changes, or installation and procurement duration, KOMET helps you identify the combinations worth carrying forward.
Answer key questions such as:
What are the comparative lifetime costs of the various combination of components and technologies?
How robust is each combination to design changes?
What are the procurement & installation campaign durations?
Who is it for?
Offshore wind developers
Project managers & consultants
Original Equipment Manufacturers
(OEMs)
Developed through the TIGGOR 2.5 Innovation Project
KOMET was developed by engineers and data scientists at Kinewell as part of the TIGGOR 2.5 Innovation Project, funded by the North East Combined Authority and delivered by the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult.
KOMET has been shaped through extensive engagement with floating offshore wind stakeholders across the industry; it has been developed to directly address real-world problems faced in early-stage design.
Key features
All features
Concept screening
 Rapid Mooring Concept Evaluation |
Quickly evaluate large numbers of floater, mooring, anchor and vessel combinations during early-stage floating wind development, helping teams narrow down viable concepts before detailed engineering begins. |
| Compatibility Logic Checking |
Explore viable floaters, mooring systems and anchors through compatability checking to ensure technically feasible concepts are considered. |
System design
 Floater modelling |
Compare spar, semi-submersible, barge, TLP and other custom floaters. |
| Mooring line modelling |
Compare nylon, synthetic and hybrid mooring line technologies, and customise line lengths and materials. |
| Anchor modelling |
Model common anchor types such as DEA, drilled/driven pile, suction, gravity, vertical DEA and custom types, and compare their installation and procurement impacts between designs. |
| Vessel modelling |
Model vessels and compare their economic impact for installation and maintenance activities related to floaters/mooring lines/anchors |
| Design case / site modelling |
Define design cases containing seabed type, OWF information and economic parameters to model different wind farm scenarios. |
Installation & logistics analysis
| Installation Campaign Duration Metric |
Estimate procurement and installation campaign durations for different technology combinations. |
Techno-economic analysis
| Metric ranking of concepts: CAPEX, lifetime value, LCoE |
Automatically rank feasible solutions according to project objectives and economic performance: *CAPEX – Estimate and compare capital expenditure implications across different export architectures. *Lifetime value – Consider longer-term cost implications when comparing mooring system configuration. *LCoE |
| Robustness metric assessment |
Using our defined robustness metric, evaluate how resilient different configurations are to design changes and evolving project assumptions. |
Productivity & workflow benefits
| Accelerated concept development |
Significantly reduce the time required to screen and compare floating wind technology options. |
| Increased engineering productivity |
Automate repetitive concept assessment activities so engineering teams can focus on detailed design challenges. |
| Reduced FEED effort |
Identify promising concepts earlier, reducing unnecessary expenditure on low-value design studies. |
| Faster progress to investable concepts |
Help projects reach a de-risked, investment-ready state more quickly by streamlining technology selection. |
| Web-based SaaS platform |
Access KDOTS through Kinewell’s cloud-based optimisation platform without requiring specialist software deployment. |
Use KOMET to
Compare lifetime costs of various combinations of floaters, mooring lines and anchors for floating wind farms
Understand mooring system cost sensitivities to changing market situations such as material costs and energy values
Understand mooring system cost sensitivities to uncertain site conditions such as seabed geology and water depth
Understand the robustness of each combination to design changes
Assess procurement and installation campaign durations
Flexible ways to use KOMET
Whether you want to build optimisation capability in-house, access our expertise or develop something tailored to your needs, KOMET can be delivered in the way that works best for your organisation.
Use it
Build optimisation capability in-house
Bring KOMET in-house with flexible licence options to suit your project requirements. Choose short-term or long-term access, with full training and ongoing support from our team, so you can make the most of KOMET within your own workflows.
Contact us to book your free discovery call.
Integrate it
Connect KOMET with your existing tools and workflows.
Integrate KOMET with your existing systems, data and processes through APIs, making advanced optimisation part of your wider engineering and design workflows.
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Solve it
Access KOMET through Kinewell consultancy.
Let Kinewell apply KOMET and our offshore wind optimisation expertise to your challenge. We can carry out optimisation studies, investigate design options, benchmark existing solutions or support your engineering team with complex project decisions.
Learn more about our consultancy services.
Build it
Build on KOMET technology.
We can use KOMET’s underlying algorithms and optimisation technology to create solutions tailored to your requirements. We can adapt existing capabilities, add new modules and functionality, or develop entirely new applications to address specific challenges and workflows.
Explore what’s possible with our custom solutions.