Testing of Floating Wind-power Generation and the Wave-energy Platform
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Zhonglin International Group Date：12-25 872 Belong to：Industry Related
Recently, Wave Energy Scotland (WES), a wave energy technology company from Scotland, began a series of tests combining floating wind power and wave energy in the FloWave pool at the University of Edinburgh.
The test sea conditions are based on simulations of the waters off the west coast of Scotland, which is also the sea area where the 10 floating wind power project sites identified in Scotland's first offshore wind power tender in early 2022 are located, with abundant wave energy resources.
This wind power wave energy model installs several wave energy generation devices using pressure difference principle on a semi submersible triangular floating platform, and records their motion status, pressure, and other data through a series of sensors.
Elva Bannon, WES Research and Engineering Manager, said, "There is enormous potential for collaboration and cross opportunities between floating wind power and wave energy. We are actively conducting research in this field through testing activities to enhance industry understanding of the performance of these multifunctional platforms."
WES states that there is a clear synergistic effect between the technical requirements and site selection of floating wind power and wave energy. In order to minimize the costs of these two industries, it is effective to share some subsystems or infrastructure between these two types of technologies. The "Multi functional Wind Wave Universal Platform" will provide attractive solutions for these two industries.
The test sea conditions are based on simulations of the waters off the west coast of Scotland, which is also the sea area where the 10 floating wind power project sites identified in Scotland's first offshore wind power tender in early 2022 are located, with abundant wave energy resources.
This wind power wave energy model installs several wave energy generation devices using pressure difference principle on a semi submersible triangular floating platform, and records their motion status, pressure, and other data through a series of sensors.
Elva Bannon, WES Research and Engineering Manager, said, "There is enormous potential for collaboration and cross opportunities between floating wind power and wave energy. We are actively conducting research in this field through testing activities to enhance industry understanding of the performance of these multifunctional platforms."
WES states that there is a clear synergistic effect between the technical requirements and site selection of floating wind power and wave energy. In order to minimize the costs of these two industries, it is effective to share some subsystems or infrastructure between these two types of technologies. The "Multi functional Wind Wave Universal Platform" will provide attractive solutions for these two industries.
