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Work Package 09 Update – Project Month 15
Work Package 09 Update – Project Month 15 Work on the environmental and social acceptance of LiftWEC has continued to seek and assess relevant environmental
Work Package 08 Update – Project Month 15
Work Package 08 Update – Project Month 15 The latest work on the Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE) has focused on identifying and facilitating discussions
Work Package 07 Update – Project Month 15
Work Package 07 Update – Project Month 15 Work on the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) of LiftWEC systems to date has been centred on developing
Work Package 06 Update – Project Month 15
Work Package 06 Update – Project Month 15 Recent work on structural design includes the Ultimate Limit State (ULS) analysis of LiftWEC subject to operational
Work Package 05 Update – Project Month 15
Work Package 05 Update – Project Month 15 Work on the control system design has focused on the development of a new analytical model which
Work Package 04 Update – Project Month 15
Work Package 04 Update – Project Month 15 Over the last six months the physical modelling work stream has focused on the design of the
Work Package 03 Update – Project Month 15
Work Package 03 Update – Project Month 15 Recent work on hydrodynamic modelling has focused on assessing the computational capabilities of the numerical toolsets developed
Work Package 02 Update – Project Month 15
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 initial cost database
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
Ermakov, A., Ringwood, J.V. A control-orientated analytical model for a cyclorotor wave energy device with N hydrofoils. J. Ocean Eng. Mar. Energy (2021)
Abstract: We present a new analytical model from which a model-based controller can be derived for a cyclorotor-based wave energy converter (WEC). Few cyclorotor-based WEC
Ermakov, A., Ringwood, J.V.Rotors for wave energy conversion—Practice and possibilities. IET Renew Power Gener.. 1–18 (2021)
Abstract: This review studies some of the existing ideas which create a fundamentally new direction for wave energy converter (WEC) development, obtaining energy from the
D6.2 Transportation and Maintenance LiftWEC ULS Assessment
D6.2 Transportation & Maintenance LiftWEC ULS Assessment Download Deliverable D6.2 This document constitutes Deliverable ‘D6.2 Transportation and Maintenance LiftWEC ULS Assessment” of the LiftWEC project.