Optimising Array Form for Energy Extraction and Environmental Benefit (EBAO)

优化阵列形式以实现能量提取和环境效益 (EBAO)

• 批准号: NE/J004243/1
• 负责人: David Thompson
• 金额: $ 15.97万
• 依托单位: University of St Andrews
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FJ004243%2F1
• 关键词: Optimising; Array; Form; Energy; Extraction

Achievement of ambitious national targets for marine renewable deployment will require that the resources can be developed effectively, economically and quickly, whilst ensuring that the natural environment is, at the very least, protected from unacceptable change and where approriate that it can actually benefit from marine energy developments. This project will establish and evaluate a desing feedback process which can protect and perhaps enhance the natural environment, which allowing energy extraction to be maximised.Engineers will work with project and device developers to establish approriate development scenarios which will then be considered using state of the art modelling techniques to assess the levels of ecological impact across a range of key ecological parameters. This modelling will establish the levels of impact and the sensitivity of key impacts to changes in array and device design parameters. Stakeholders will be involved in assessing the acceptablity of predicted ecological changes and the prospects of ecological benefit being enhanced.The process loop will be completed by feeding the impact analysis findings back into the array design process to start a further iteration of the desing, impact and acceptability assessment process.It is anticipated that typically three iterations will be needed for the development scanarios to establish and refine the process to the benefit of the broader marine energy sector.This project crosses borders from research led-engineering design, offshore engineering and marine operations to ecological science, measurement and physical modelling expertise within the consortium. The parallels between wind and wet renewable will be utilised to link from early development shallow water wind and tidal streams to floating wave and wind in deeper water. The consortium will engage with Marine Scotland and MMO from the start of the project and at key intervals through the projectThe project will proceed by interactive collaboration between: system designers; physical modellers and ecologists; regulators and project developers.Appropriate response models will be established based upon direct involvement and interaction with cutting edge research being conducted within NERC, EPSRC; ETI and CEC funded research programmes. A clear imperative for the first stage is to refine the choice of criterion from which to judge environmental benefit, particularly when upscaling, e.g. fisheries enhancement, acoustics, animal movement corridors.These will then be used by the physical and ecological modellers to produce a series of configuration scenarios.The engineering specialists in the project will identify portfolios of appropriate case studies of array developments and state of the art array modelling tools. Case studies will be developed and interpreted using the techniques established above . The engagement of developers, trade associations, EMEC and Wave Hub is fundamental for specialist input and dissemination and the results will be interpreted in association with these broader stakeholder communities. This will be through workshops arranged to coordinate structured debate and cross consortium feedback.This process will be, fundamentally an iterative procedure, with effective closure of the design, ecological assessment and constraint quantification process loop requiring multiple circuits prior to acceptable compromises being reached.Management PlanA steering committee drawn from the investigators and incorporating representatives from wind, wave and tidal developers and invited representatives from the regulators will assess and guide progress.

实现雄心勃勃的国家可再生能源部署目标的实现将要求可以在经济上和迅速地开发资源，同时确保自然环境至少可以保护自然环境免受不可接受的变化的保护，并且在这里可以从海洋中受益。能源发展。该项目将建立并评估一个荒凉的反馈过程，该过程可以保护和增强自然环境，从而使能量提取可以最大化。工程师将与项目和设备开发人员合作，以建立批准的开发方案，然后将其视为使用该方案，然后使用该方案，然后使用该方案。艺术建模技术以评估一系列关键生态参数的生态影响水平。该建模将确定对阵列和设备设计参数变化的关键影响的影响水平和敏感性。利益相关者将参与评估预测的生态变化的接受度以及增强生态益处的前景。过程循环将通过将影响分析结果喂入阵列设计过程中，以开始对降落，影响和影响的进一步迭代来完成。可接受性评估过程。预计开发扫描室通常需要进行三个迭代，以建立和完善该过程，从而利用更广泛的海洋能源部门。财团内的生态科学，测量和物理建模专业知识。风与湿润可再生之间的相似之处将用于从早期开发的浅水和潮汐流到浮动的潮流和更深的水中的风。该财团将从项目的开头开始与苏格兰海洋和MMO互动，并以该项目的关键间隔进行项目，该项目将通过以下方面的交互式协作进行：系统设计师；物理建模者和生态学家；监管机构和项目开发人员。适当的响应模型将基于与NERC中的尖端研究的直接参与和互动，EPSRC； ETI和CEC资助的研究计划。第一阶段的明确当务之急是完善判断环境利益的标准的选择，尤其是在提升时，例如渔业增强，声学，动物运动走廊。然后，物理和生态模块厂将使用这些渔业，以生产一系列配置方案。建模工具。案例研究将使用上述技术进行开发和解释。开发商，贸易协会，EMEC和Wave Hub的参与对于专家投入和传播是基础，结果将与这些更广泛的利益相关者社区联合解释。这将是通过安排的研讨会来协调结构化的辩论和交叉财团的反馈。从根本上讲，这是一个迭代程序，有效地关闭了设计，生态评估和约束定量量化过程循环，需要多个电路，然后才能达到可接受的妥协。 Plana指导委员会从调查人员那里得出，并纳入了Wind，Wave和Tidal Developers的代表，并邀请监管机构的代表评估和指导进度。

项目成果

Avoidance of wind farms by harbour seals is limited to pile driving activities.

• DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12678
• 发表时间: 2016-12
• 期刊: The Journal of applied ecology
• 作者: Russell DJ;Hastie GD;Thompson D;Janik VM;Hammond PS;Scott-Hayward LA;Matthiopoulos J;Jones EL;McConnell BJ
• 通讯作者: McConnell BJ

Sound exposure in harbour seals during the installation of an offshore wind farm: predictions of auditory damage

• DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12403
• 发表时间: 2015-06-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
• 影响因子: 5.7
• 作者: Hastie, Gordon D.;Russell, Deborah J. F.;Janik, Vincent M.
• 通讯作者: Janik, Vincent M.

Multiple-Pulse Sounds and Seals: Results of a Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) Telemetry Study During Wind Farm Construction.

多脉冲声音和海豹：风电场建设期间斑海豹（Phoca vitulina）遥测研究的结果。

• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_50
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Advances in experimental medicine and biology
• 作者: Hastie GD

Marine mammals trace anthropogenic structures at sea.

海洋哺乳动物在海上追踪人类结构。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.033
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: CB
• 作者: Russell DJF