The Development of Technology Evaluation Protocols for the Equitable Evaluation of Marine Renewable Energy Converters

2010 ◽  
pp. 1: 638-647
Author(s):  
David Ingram ◽  
George H Smith ◽  
Jose Luis Villate ◽  
Cameron Jonstone ◽  
Claudio Bittencourt Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Technology Evaluation ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Converters

scholarly journals Instrumentation for Monitoring around Marine Renewable Energy Converters: Workshop Final Report

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. L. Polagye ◽  
A. E. Copping ◽  
J. Brown-Saracino ◽  
R. Suryan ◽  
S. Kramer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Converters

scholarly journals Sonar for Environmental Monitoring: Configuration of a Multifunctional Active Acoustics Platform Applied for Marine Renewables

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Gemo Albino Francisco ◽  
Jan Sundberg
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Marine Animals ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy ◽  
Monitoring Platform ◽  
Energy Converters ◽  
Active Acoustics

Marine renewable energy is emerging as one of the fast-growing industry in the last decades, as modern society pushes for technologies that can convert energy contained from winds, waves, tides and stream flows. The implementation of renewable energy technologies impose high demands on both structural and environmental engineering, as the energy converters have to work under extreme conditions where parameters such as sea-bottom configuration, water transparency and depth, sea-states and prevailing winds are harsh. Constant monitoring of the marine environment is crucial in order to keep this sector reliable. Active acoustics is becoming a standard tool to collect multi-dimensional data from physical, geological and biological properties of the marine environment. The Div. of Electricity of Uppsala University have been developing an environmental monitoring platform based on sonar (Sound Navigation And Raging) systems. This platform aims to monitor the installation, operation and decommissioning of marine renewable energy converters. The focus will be given the observations of behaviours of marine animals in vicinity of energy converters but also structural inspection and monitoring of MRETs. This paper describes how this multifunctional environmental monitoring platform come to existence from the design to the deployment phase.

scholarly journals Component Test Facilities for Marine Renewable Energy Converters

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Johanning ◽  
◽  
P R Thies ◽  
G H Smith ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy ◽  
Component Test ◽  
Energy Converters

scholarly journals Instrumentation for Monitoring around Marine Renewable Energy Converters: Workshop Final Report

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea E. Copping ◽  
Brian Polagye ◽  
R. Suryan ◽  
S. Kramer ◽  
J. Brown- Saracino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Converters

scholarly journals Sonar for Environmental Monitoring: Construction of a Multifunctional Active Acoustic Platform Applied for Marine Renewables

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Francisco ◽  
Jan Sundberg
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Marine Animals ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy ◽  
Sonar Systems ◽  
Monitoring Platform ◽  
Energy Converters

Marine renewable energy is emerging as one of the fast-growing industry in the last decades, as modern society pushes for technologies that can convert energy contained from winds, waves, tides and stream flows. The implementation of renewable energy technologies impose high demands on both structural and environmental engineering, as the energy converters have to work under extreme conditions where parameters such as sea-bottom configuration, water transparency and depth, sea-states and prevailing winds are harsh. Constant monitoring of the marine environment is crucial in order to keep this sector reliable. Active acoustics is becoming a standard tool to collect multi-dimensional data from physical, geological and biological properties of the marine environment. The Div. of Electricity of Uppsala University have been developing an environmental monitoring platform based on sonar systems. This platform aims to monitor the installation, operation and decommissioning of marine renewable energy converters. The focus will be given the observations of behaviors of marine animals in vicinity of energy converters but also structural inspection and monitoring of MRETs. This paper describes how this multifunctional environmental monitoring platform come to existence from the design to the deployment phase.

scholarly journals A Decision Support Tool for Long-Term Planning of Marine Operations in Ocean Energy Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 810
Author(s):  
Francisco X. Correia da Fonseca ◽  
Luís Amaral ◽  
Paulo Chainho
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Ocean Energy ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy ◽  
Marine Energy ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
Selection Algorithms ◽  
Maritime Infrastructure

Ocean energy is a relevant source of clean renewable energy, and as it is still facing challenges related to its above grid-parity costs, tariffs intended to support in a structured and coherent way are of great relevance and potential impact. The logistics and marine operations required for installing and maintaining these systems are major cost drivers of marine renewable energy projects. Planning the logistics of marine energy projects is a highly complex and intertwined process, and to date, limited advances have been made in the development of decision support tools suitable for ocean energy farm design. The present paper describes the methodology of a novel, opensource, logistic and marine operation planning tool, integrated within DTOceanPlus suite of design tools, and responsible for producing logistic solutions comprised of optimal selections of vessels, port terminals, equipment, as well as operation plans, for ocean energy projects. Infrastructure selection logistic functions were developed to select vessels, ports, and equipment for specific projects. A statistical weather window model was developed to estimate operation delays due to weather. A vessel charter rate modeling approach, based on an in-house vessel database and industry experience, is described in detail. The overall operation assumptions and underlying operating principles of the statistical weather window model, maritime infrastructure selection algorithms, and cost modeling strategies are presented. Tests performed for a case study based a theoretical floating wave energy converter produced results in good agreement with reality.

scholarly journals Optimising the Operation of Tidal Range Schemes

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 2870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingjing Xue ◽  
Reza Ahmadian ◽  
Roger Falconer
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Energy Output ◽  
Tidal Range ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy ◽  
Modelling Methodology ◽  
Similar Operation ◽  
Swansea Bay ◽  
The Uk

Marine renewable energy, including tidal renewable energy, is one of the less exploited sources of energy that could contribute to energy demand, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Amongst several proposals to build tidal range structure (TRS), a tidal lagoon has been proposed for construction in Swansea Bay, in the South West of the UK, but this scheme was recently rejected by the UK government due to the high electricity costs. This decision makes the optimisation of such schemes more important for the future. This study proposes various novel approaches by breaking the operation into small components to optimise the operation of TRS using a widely used 0-D modelling methodology. The approach results in a minimum 10% increase in energy output, without the inclusion of pumping, in comparison to the maximum energy output using a similar operation for all tides. This increase in energy will be approximately 25% more when pumping is included. The optimised operation schemes are used to simulate the lagoon operation using a 2-D model and the differences between the results are highlighted.

Strategic priorities for assessing ecological impacts of marine renewable energy devices in the Pentland Firth (Scotland, UK)

Marine Policy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 635-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Shields ◽  
Lora Jane Dillon ◽  
David K. Woolf ◽  
Alex T. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Energy Devices ◽  
Marine Renewable Energy
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