Lead contractor
Wave Energy Scotland Ltd
Overview
Wave Energy Scotland's second Annual Conference took place on Tuesday 28th November 2017 at the John MacIntyre Building in Edinburgh. With the recently awarded Control Systems Stage 1 contracts, there were 35 projects in the WES programme at this time.
During the one day conference, participants in the Power Take-Off (PTO), Novel Wave Energy Converter (NWEC) and Structural Materials and Manufacturing Processes (SMMP) programmes each gave a short presentation to update attendees on their progress during the previous year. In addition to this, WES gave an update on the overall programme, and there were a number of presentations to inform on other areas of research and opportunities across the wider sector.
The majority of the presentations that were given on the day are available to be downloaded. The documentation available include:
- WES Annual Conference 2017 agenda
- WES Programme summary and future plans
- Structural Materials and Manufacturing Processes project elevator pitches
- Power Take-Off project elevator pitches
- Novel Wave Energy Converter project elevator pitches
- Control Systems project posters
- Energy Technology Partnership and SuperGen Flex-fund update
- Interactive session
- International overview
Conference Agenda & Overview
November 2017
This document provides the agenda from this conference.
Presentations given by contractors and invited guests are available separately.
Share reportWES Programme Summary and Future Plans
November 2017
This presentation covers an update from WES on the progress of the overall programme and an introduction to the participants in each of the four development streams of Power Take-Off, Novel WEC, Structural Materials and Manufacturing Processes, and Control Systems. (David Langston)
In addition, there is also an overview of the planned strategic research projects (originally referred to as 'landscaping') which would take place during 2018, covering cost reduction in supporting infrastructure, very large scale generation, and alternative generation technologies. (Jonathan Hodges)
An overview was given on the Metrics development work in collaboration with a number of international partners. (Jillian Henderson)
An interactive session was held during the day allowing attendees provide feedback to WES on what they would like to see in the future. The introduction slides are shared here. (Elva Bannon)
Project Updates - Structural Materials and Manufacturing Processes
November 2017
Presentation slides from the 3-minute updates given by each of the ten developers within the Stage 1 Structural Materials and Manufacturing Processes projects.
These projects are:
- Quoceant - Advanced Concrete Engineering-WEC (ACE-WEC)
- University of Edinburgh - Rotational Moulding of Polymers, Composites and Hybrid WEC Structures
- PolyGen - Advanced Rotational Moulding for Wave Energy Technologies (ARMWET)
- TTI - NetBuoy
- ARUP - Concrete as a Technology Enabler
- University of Edinburgh - A feasibility study on Elastomeric-based WECs
- CorPower - HydroComp
- TTI - Polyshell
- Cruz Atcheson - Reinforced Polymers for Wave Energy (RePOWER)
- Haydale Composite Solutions - Advanced Rotational Moulding for Ocean Renewables (ARMOR)
Project Updates - Power Take-off (PTO)
November 2017
Slides from the 3-minute updates given by three of the four developers within Stage 2, and each of the four Stage 3 Power Take-off projects.
These projects are:
- University of Edinburgh - C-GEN Project Neptune
- CorPower - HiDrive
- Artemis Intelligent Power - Quantor hybrid hydraulic PTO
- Umbra Cuscinetti S.p.A - Electro-Mechanical Reciprocating Generator (EMERGE)
- Exceedence - Gator
- Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Inflatable Dielectric Elastomer PTO
- Ecosse Subsea Systems - Power Electronic Controlled Magnetic Gear (PECMAG)
- *Romax - Wave Energy Transmission Module
*(Did not present).
Project Updates - Novel Wave Energy Converter
November 2017
Slides from the 3-minute updates given by three of the four developers within the Stage 2 Novel Wave Energy Converter projects.
These projects are:
- 4C Engineering - Attenuator Cost of Energy Reduction (ACER 2)
- Checkmate - Anaconda Novel WEC
- Mocean Energy - Mocean WEC: next-level hydrodynamics & engineering
- *AWS - Improve Archimedes Waveswing
*(Did not present)
Energy Technology Partnership Update
November 2017
Slides from the Energy Technology Partnership given by Norman Morrison.
The presentation also introduces four of the five projects which have received funding under the SuperGen Flex-fund award.
The Global Picture – Wave Technology Development Abroad
November 2017
An update from Henry Jeffery on the IEA international vision, the European programme including Horizon 2020 and other funding opportunities, and examples of the progress within the sector from France, Ireland, Mexico, Korea and the US.
Control Systems Poster Presentations
November 2017
This file contains each of the posters presentations provided by the thirteen projects within Stage 1 of the Control Systems programme.
The Stage 1 projects who presented posters are:
- Cheros Energy Engineering - Control of Dielectric Elastomer Generator PTO
- CPower Alba Ltd - Wave Energy Advanced Control System (WEACS)
- EPF Energy Automation - WEQUAD FRAME
- Innosea - ForeWave
- Industrial Systems and Control - Nonlinear Optimal Control
- MarynSol - DataWave
- MaxSim Ltd - Cost of Energy Optimised by Reinforcement Learning (CEROL)
- Queen Mary University - Adaptive Hierarchical Model Predictive Control of WECs
- Sguur Control - IMPACT
- Tecnalia - Wave Energy Enhancement Through Innovative Control System (WEETICS)
- University of Bath - Predictability-bounded Control of the Mocean WEC
- University of Bath - Adaptive Control of the WaveSub WEC using a Romax Electro-mechanical PTO
- Wave Venture - Survival Focused Automatic Control (SURF-MATIC)