LiftWEC Newsletter 02 – June 2021 LiftWEC Newsletter 02 – June 2021 Welcome to the second LiftWEC project newsletter! This newsletter gives a short introduction to the LiftWEC project, the consortium and an outline of recent project activities! Further newsletters will be published approximately every 6-12 months. If you would like to receive future LiftWEC …
Work Package 09 Update – Project Month 15 Work on the environmental and social acceptance of LiftWEC has continued to seek and assess relevant environmental and social influences on LiftWEC design criteria as outlined in Deliverable 9.1: “Identification of potential technology stressors and environmental receptors of the LiftWEC technology”. This report identifies potential wave energy …
Work Package 08 Update – Project Month 15 The latest work on the Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE) has focused on identifying and facilitating discussions on the most significant potential cost saving measures available to the LiftWEC technology. This analysis will continue throughout the LiftWEC development pathway. To assess the economic performance of the different …
Work Package 07 Update – Project Month 15 Work on the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) of LiftWEC systems to date has been centred on developing the O&M simulation tool, OM Expert. OM Expert is a cloud-based application coded under the Microsoft .NET framework which can be used to assess the O&M requirements of a given …
Work Package 06 Update – Project Month 15 Recent work on structural design includes the Ultimate Limit State (ULS) analysis of LiftWEC subject to operational and non-operational loads. Results have been presented in both Deliverable D6.1 “Extreme Event LiftWEC ULS Assessment” and Deliverable D6.2 “Transportation and Maintenance LiftWEC ULS Assessment”. One notable highlight is the …
Work Package 05 Update – Project Month 15 Work on the control system design has focused on the development of a new analytical model which can be used to develop model-based control systems for the LiftWEC device. The mechanical model is based on Newton’s second law for rotation. Rotation is considered in two-dimensional potential flow …
Work Package 04 Update – Project Month 15 Over the last six months the physical modelling work stream has focused on the design of the 2D LiftWEC experimental model and specification of the 2D physical test campaign which will produce experimental data for the validation of the numerical tools developed in the project. The model …
Work Package 03 Update – Project Month 15 Recent work on hydrodynamic modelling has focused on assessing the computational capabilities of the numerical toolsets developed during the first phase of the project, followed by preliminary validation of the high-fidelity numerical methods. More detail on these works is presented in Deliverable D3.2 “Preliminary Assessment of Computational …
Work Package 02 Update – Project Month 15 The Conceptual Design work stream is intended to ensure the success of the whole-system approach taken to LiftWEC’s development through; (1) the generation of specific knowledge required to answer outstanding design questions, and (2) collation of learning from all other work streams to inform best practice design …
The database of costs is a list of costs related to the commercialisation of a wave energy farm. The costs are collected in an Excel sheet divided into categories. This collection of costs is intended to be used in LCoE calculations. The data has been gathered through a thorough literature review. The database is available …