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Session 15: MARINE & WIND ENERGY
Marine Energy, which includes wave, tidal and offshore wind offers a significant opportunity for maritime nations to develop new and sustainable energy resources. The 1970s saw significant early international progress in, for example, the UK, Norway, Portugal and Japan. This early research established the formal rigour required to underpin a new industry. Despite early research being curtailed by limited funding, the United Kingdom has taken radical steps to encourage the development of a new energy industry through innovative funding mechanism to encourage pre-commercial development. Research has been encouraged in UK Universities through radical programmes of funding such as the Supergen (Marine) project established by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (EPSRC) and the parallel Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) Marine Energy Programme, which has funded radical new studies into the ecological implications of development. Scotland has seen the creation of the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, which allows the testing of full scale wave and tidal current energy technology in representative conditions. Devices installed at EMEC can export energy into the local grid while being closely monitored for their hydrodynamic and electrical performance.
Over the last 20 years wind energy has rapidly expanded from an emerging energy source, into a mature and well established global industry. Based on a unique collaboration between the research environment and industry, improvements in performance and reliability leading to falling generation costs have helped to make wind energy one of the most well established sources of renewable power. Wind power has seen a 15 year average growth in total installed capacity of over 25% per year worldwide, resulting in a total installed capacity of 285 GW by the end of 2012 that covers 2.6 % of global electricity consumption. This achievement has only been possible due to a combined effort on the continuous development, up-scaling and maturing of the technology that is facilitated by the parallel development of research based design tools, standards and procedures. Great opportunities, but also challenges still remain for the industry. Wind power needs to compete with conventional generation sources on a cost basis and therefore must be established and operated as efficiently as possible for a given resource. Temporal and geographical variability in the wind resource coupled with demand variability require effective wind characteristic predictions, as well as systems for successfully integrating wind power into the grid system. Environmental impacts such as noise should be minimised.
session 15a - 8th July 2014, 10:35-12:20
moderator: Prof. Stig Munk-Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark |
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Marine Energy, a Personal Perspective (40 minutes) Abstract
Prof. Ian G Bryden FRSE
Vice Principal (Research)
The University of the Highlands and Islands
Scotland
United Kingdom
Bio-sketch |
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The key technologies and development of offshore wind farm in China (25 minutes) Abstract
Prof. Zhi-Xin Wang
Department of Electrical Engineering
Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai
China
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Reliability analysis of complex limit states of floating wind turbines (25 minutes) Abstract
Dr. Athanasios Kolios
Division of Energy and Power Engineering
School of Engineering
Cranfield University
United Kingdom
Bio-sketch
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session 15b - 9 July 2014, 9:40-11:25
moderator: Dr. Biljana Stojkovska, National Grid, United Kingdom |
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Marine Energy - News from the north (40 minutes)
Neil Kermode
Managing Director
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Limited
Orkney
United Kingdom
Bio-sketch |
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Operation of Intelligent Wind Power Unit (30 minutes) Abstract
Toshiaki Kanemoto
Dr. Engineering, Research Prof.
Faculty of Engineering
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu
Japan
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Strategic orientation for the ocean energy market roll-out: Coherent technology learning by system dynamics modelling of trans-organisational expert knowledge (20 minutes) Abstract
Ralf Bucher
University of Edinburgh
Institute for Energy Systems
United Kingdom
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session 15c, 10th July 2014, 8:30-10:15
moderator: Prof. Ian G Bryden FRSE, The University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Trends and challenges in wind turbine technology development and modelling (40 minutes) Abstract
Mr. Flemming Rasmussen
Head of Aeroelastic Design Section
DTU Wind Energy
Denmark
Bio-sketch
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Preliminary Tests at a Model Smart Wind Farm Facility in Texas (30 minutes) Abstract
Dr. Arquimedes Ruiz-Columbie
National Wind Institute
Texas Tech University
United States
Bio-sketch
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Offshore Wind – a Significant Natural Resource of the North Atlantic (30 minutes) Abstract
Brian Hurley M.Sc.
Managing Director
Wind Site Evaluation Ltd., Dublin
Ireland
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session 15d - 10th July 2014, 10:35-12:20
moderator: Mr. Flemming Rasmussen, DTU Wind Energy, Denmark |
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Wind Turbine Power Module Tests and Lifetime (30 minutes) Abstract
Prof. Stig Munk-Nielsen
Department of energy Technology
Aalborg University
Denmark
Bio-sketch
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Nomadic harvesting of wind energy (20 minutes) Abstract
Dr. Panagis Vovos
Power Systems Laboratory
Dept Of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Patras
Greece
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Integration of Offshore Transmission Networks in UK (20 minutes) Abstract
Dr. Biljana Stojkovska
National Grid
United Kingdom
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Fleet Monitoring for Distributed Energy Systems (20 minutes) Abstract
Dipl.-Ing. Marc Hilbert
Institute for Mining and Metallurgical Machinery
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen
Germany
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This session is chaired by:
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Prof. Ian G Bryden FRSE
Vice Principal (Research)
The University of the Highlands and Islands
Scotland
United Kingdom |
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Dr Athanasios Kolios
Department of Offshore, Process and Energy Engineering
School of Engineering
Cranfield University
United Kingdom |
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Mr. Flemming Rasmussen
Head of Aeroelastic Design Section
DTU Wind Energy
Denmark
Bio-sketch
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