Maximising tidal energy generation through Blade Scaling & Advanced Digital Engineering - MAXBlades

通过叶片缩放最大限度地提高潮汐能发电量

• 批准号: 10064409
• 金额: $ 94.97万
• 依托单位: THE EUROPEAN MARINE ENERGY CENTRE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10064409
• 关键词: Maximising; tidal; energy; generation; through

The MAXBlade project will specifically focus on delivering a 70% increase in rotor swept area of the technology by addressing design, reliability, condition monitoring, maintenance and control issues relating to tidal turbine blades. All of these issues have to date been insufficiently addressed for tidal turbine blades and need to be holistically tackled to reach a site-averaged €30/MWh cost reduction in tidal stream energy, while maturing the technology to address barriers around investment attractiveness. The project also anticipates significant challenges and expected legislative requirements around applying circular economy principles to tidal stream turbine blades in pursuit of a net zero generation sector. With a close interface between blade design and testing activities, the project addresses a comprehensive circular economy roadmap for tidal turbine blades, including advancing the potential of recyclable thermoplastic resins for use in the composite blades. The project also progresses initiatives to ensure that the European composite sectors become the international leader in tidal blade manufacture through knowledge transfer, practical engagement in the blade production design and identifying and addressing barriers to increasing European supplier capacity. The project will consist of a 2-year design and development phase, an 18- month build, followed by a 2-year performance verification through the build of a tidal array of at least two units (c. 5MW), ensuring that 8 blades (4 rotors) are tested providing cumulatively 120,000 hours of rotor performance data.

MAXBlade 项目将专门致力于通过解决与潮汐涡轮机叶片相关的设计、可靠性、状态监测、维护和控制问题，使该技术的转子扫掠面积增加 70%。迄今为止，所有这些问题尚未得到充分解决。潮汐涡轮机叶片的成本需要整体解决，以实现潮汐流能源现场平均成本降低 30 欧元/兆瓦时，同时成熟技术以解决投资吸引力方面的障碍。该项目还预计将面临重大挑战。该项目围绕将循环经济原理应用于潮汐流涡轮机叶片以实现净零发电领域的立法要求，通过叶片设计和测试活动之间的密切联系，制定了潮汐流涡轮机叶片的全面循环经济路线图，包括提高潮汐流涡轮机叶片的潜力。该项目还采取了一些举措，通过知识转移、叶片生产设计的实际参与以及识别和解决增加欧洲供应商的障碍，确保欧洲复合材料行业成为潮汐叶片制造的国际领导者。容量。该项目将包括为期 2 年的设计和开发阶段、18 个月的建造阶段，以及随后通过建造至少两个单元（约 5MW）的潮汐阵列进行为期 2 年的性能验证，确保 8 个叶片（4 个转子）经过累计测试，提供 120,000 小时的转子性能数据。