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)

基本信息

批准号：
NE/J004057/1
负责人：
Paul Lepper
金额：
$ 14.6万
依托单位：
Loughborough University
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%2FJ004057%2F1
关键词：
Optimising Array Form Energy Extraction

项目摘要

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 design feedback process which can protect and perhaps enhance the natural environment, whilst 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 design, 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 project.The 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.

实现海洋可再生能源部署的雄心勃勃的国家目标将需要有效、经济和快速地开发资源，同时确保自然环境至少受到保护，免受不可接受的变化，并在适当的情况下真正受益于海洋能源发展。该项目将建立和评估一个设计反馈流程，该流程可以保护并可能改善自然环境，同时最大限度地提高能源提取率。工程师将与项目和设备开发商合作，建立适当的开发方案，然后使用现有的状态进行考虑。艺术建模技术来评估一系列关键生态参数的生态影响水平。该建模将确定影响水平以及关键影响对阵列和器件设计参数变化的敏感性。利益相关者将参与评估预测的生态变化的可接受性以及生态效益增强的前景。通过将影响分析结果反馈到阵列设计过程中以开始设计、影响和增强的进一步迭代来完成流程循环。可接受性评估过程。预计开发扫描通常需要三次迭代才能建立和完善该过程，以造福更广泛的海洋能源部门。该项目跨越了研究主导的工程设计、近海工程和海洋运营的边界到生态的联盟内的科学、测量和物理建模专业知识。将利用风能和湿可再生能源之间的相似之处，将早期开发的浅水风和潮汐流与深水中的浮浪和风联系起来。该联盟将从项目开始时以及整个项目的关键时间间隔与 Marine Scotland 和 MMO 进行合作。该项目将通过以下人员之间的互动协作进行：系统设计人员；物理建模师和生态学家；监管机构和项目开发商。将根据 NERC、EPSRC 内正在进行的前沿研究的直接参与和互动，建立适当的响应模型； ETI 和 CEC 资助研究项目。第一阶段的一个明显当务之急是完善判断环境效益的标准选择，特别是在升级时，例如渔业增强、声学、动物运动走廊。然后物理和生态建模者将使用这些来生成一系列配置场景。该项目的工程专家将确定阵列开发和最先进阵列的适当案例研究组合建模工具。将使用上述技术来开发和解释案例研究。开发商、行业协会、EMEC 和 Wave Hub 的参与对于专家的投入和传播至关重要，结果将与这些更广泛的利益相关者社区结合起来进行解释。这将通过安排研讨会来协调结构化辩论和跨联盟反馈。这个过程从根本上来说将是一个迭代程序，有效地闭合设计、生态评估和约束量化过程循环，在达到可接受的妥协之前需要多个循环。管理由调查人员组成、风能、波浪和潮汐开发商代表以及监管机构特邀代表组成的计划指导委员会将评估和指导进展情况。