Standardisation of Offshore Energy System Testing
Test Recommendations and Gap Analysis Report
Research Enabling Robustness Proving and Future Proofing of Offshore Renewable Energy Infrastructures
Common MaRINET2 Standard Testing and Benchmarking Plan
Users’ post-access reports (Call 1)
The following reports were produced by User Groups that submitted successful applications in our 1st Transnational Access Call and carried out a testing project at one of our facilities between July 2017 – Jan 2018.
Flow Rectifying Methods Testing – Aalborg University’s basin
Small-scale model tests of the HAB Energy Buoy – Aalborg University’s basin
Performance assessment and foundation impact of the Sabella D10 turbine – INSEAN’s circulating water channel
Dynamic loading of tidal turbine arrays – INSEAN’s towing & wave tank
Hydro-elastic response of jacket foundations of offshore wind turbines subjected to hydrodynamic impulsive loading – INSEAN’s towing & wave tank
Efficiency and survivability of floating OWC moored to the seabed – LABIMA’s wave current flume
Optimisation of a novel wave-powered small-scale desalinator – ECN’s hydrodynamic & ocean engineering tank
Hydrodynamic testing of an array of 1:20 scaled ISWEC devices – ECN’s hydrodynamic & ocean engineering tank
System identification through experimental tests on a semi-submersible platform for offshore wind – Ifremer’s Basin of Brest
Testing a scaled prototype of the Brí Toinne Teoranta tidal turbine – Ifremer’s Basin of Boulogne-sur-Mer
Tidal Flyer; Innovation, design & evolution (TIDE) Supplementary – Phase 1b – Ifremer’s Basin of Boulogne-sur-Mer
Validation of environmental loading on an open centre tidal energy converter – Ifremer’s Basin of Boulogne-sur-Mer
Validation of Floating Power Plant’s multi-body numerical model for the interaction between the semi-submersible and the pitching WEC – Oceanide’s BGO First basin
Validation of Power & Stability outputs from CFX modelling – Oceanide’s BGO First basin
SENER Fixed Oscillating Water Column – Oceanide’s BGO First basin
Testing of Floating Wind Turbines Ltd’s new floating wind concept called Deep Turbine Installation-Flouting concept (DTI-F) – UCC’s Lir Ocean Emulator
Characterisation and load management experimental demonstration for a submerged WEC – UCC’s Lir Deep Ocean Basin
Testing multi-float high capacity WEC M4 and hybrid wind configurations – UCC’s Lir Deep Ocean Basin
Testing of a floating offshore wind turbine with controllable waterplane area – UCC’s Lir Ocean Emulator
Surface Energy Accumulation, Conversion & Transfer Technology – University of Strathclyde’s Kelvins Hydrodynamic Lab
Users’ post-access reports (Call 2)
The following reports were produced by User Groups that submitted successful applications in our 2nd Transnational Access Call and carried out a testing project at one of our facilities between April 2018 – Oct 2018.
TETRA Wave Power – Concept Test in regular and irregular waves (Stage 1) – Aalborg University’s basin
Performance evaluation test of a 1:26 scaled ISWEC device in extreme wave conditions – Aalborg University’s basin
Performance analysis of a multi-float spar for supporting wind turbines – University of Cantabria’s coastal & ocean basin
Evaluation of the Triton C Community Scale Wave Energy Converter in realistic ocean wave conditions for determination of power performance and cost of energy assessment – ECN’s hydrodynamic & ocean engineering tank
Rectified Flow Wave Energy Converter – FZK Large Wave Flume (Großer Wellenkanal, GWK)
Low‐frequency second‐order drift‐forces experimental validation for a Twin Hull Shape Offshore Platform – Wave Basin of Brest, IFREMER
Taut Mooring Rope CBOS Testing – Materials Testing Facility, IFREMER
Turbine Winglets for Efficient Devices – Wave & Current Flume, IFREMER
Experimental validation of a floating OWC for wave energy conversion – COAST Ocean Basin, University of Plymouth
Real time simulations of a wave power system – Lir Ocean Emulator, UCC
Enhanced Survivability Assessment of Anaconda Mk1C – Lir Deep Ocean Basin, UCC
Taut Mooring Shock Load Testing – DMaC, University of Exeter
Users’ post-access reports (Call 3)
The following reports were produced by User Groups that submitted successful applications in our 3rd Transnational Access Call and carried out a testing project at one of our facilities between Mar 2019 – Sept 2019.
WEC controller tank testing for the Wave Energy Converter Control Competition – Aalborg University Basin
Verification of the PTO Control System for a Sea-Going WRAM Wave Energy Converter – Mutriku OWC Plant
EXploiting Tidal Renewable Energy and reducing MArine Litter by a FLOATing barriER – CRIACIV_LABIMA Wave-Current Flume
Marine turbulence-induced response of Offshore WT aerofoils – CRIACIV_LABIMA Wind Engineering Lab
Biocoat – Marine Corrosion Test Site El Bocal
Data Acquisition for Enhanced Maintenance Programme in Magallanes Tidal Energy Platform – 2nd stage – Full Scale Tidal Site, EMEC
Fracture Mechanics of Thick Composites for Tidal Turbine Blades – Materials Testing Lab, IFREMER
GKinetic Deployment Systems 1 – Wave & Current Flume, IFREMER
Wave and Immersion Depth Effects on a Cross Flow Turbine – Wave & Current Flume, IFREMER
Floating Wind Turbine Tests with Advanced Control Strategies Using a Ducted Fan to Emulate the Rotor Loads – Marin’s Concept Basin
Simultaneous Ocean Wave and Current Energy Harvesting using a Single Power Take Off System – Oceanide BGO FIRST Basin
PowerCone Beta Tidal Project – Queens Tidal Test Site
SurgeWEC: Identification of System Hydrodynamics – Queens Wide Wave Basin
Geographically Distributed Real-Time Simulation for studying HVDC-based grid integration of an offshore wind farm – SINTEF’s Smartgrids
Inertia emulation with offshore windfarms connected through HVDC links – SINTEF’s Smartgrids
Adaptation of a Concentric Array of Point Absorber Wave Energy Converters to a Semi-Submersible Platform – Lir Deep Ocean Basin, UCC
Vessel Agnostic Turbine Handling – Lir Wave & Current Flume, UCC
