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 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: 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 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.

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