SEM-REV R&D projects
The SEM-REV team also participates in collaborative R&D.
You have a project ?
Contact the SEM-REV team to set up your R&D project: semrev@ec-nantes.fr
Increase awareness of the marine environment (resources, impact…)
MARINE GROWTH: projects ABIOP, LEHERO
- Inertia / Hydrodynamic added drag due to marine growth
- Asymmetry of development
- Species on site and follow-up in time
- Space and time evolution
IMPACT OF EQUIPMENT: projects SPECIES, HOOPLA
- Trenching, scouring (cable)
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Life on benthos and water column
SEISMIC, GEOTECHNOLOGY: projects PROSE, REDENV-EOL
- Soil characterization
- Foundations, anchors
- Buried objects
Support the development of MRE Technologies (FOWT, WEC) and components
NUMERICAL MODELLING, BENCH TESTS, IN -SITU MONITORING: project OMDYN
- Thermo-mechanical effects
- Component monitoring
FORECASTING FOLLOW-UP IN FATIGUE: project MHM-EMR
- SHM: Structural Health Monitoring
LAYOUT OF FLOATING WIND FARMS: project STATIONIS
- Criteria of wind farm layout
- Technical and economic solutions
Include all aspects related to the Energy (Storage, Transport and Conversion)
DYNAMIC CABLE MONITORING: projects EMODI and OMDYN
- Loads, motions and deformations
- Influence of marine growth
- Fault diagnosis
- Stabilization of cables on seabed
Address the Security, Safety, Education & Marine Operations challenges
Illustration: buoy drifting after breaking its mooring lines
SAFETY
- Risk analysis vs marine traffic
- Maritime surveillance
- Studies of component follow-ups
MARINE OPERATIONS
- Meteorological and oceanographic forecasts
- Monitoring for operation and maintenance (O&M)
- Embarked numerical model for decision aid
Funding
Centrale Nantes has built a 6-year collaborative research program, which started in 2014, to support MRE technologies development. This program aims at providing leverage funding for MRE developers willing to demonstrate their technology at SEM-REV.
Several ways to partially fund your test campaign:
- OCEAN DEMO: Free access to the Northern European test sites to test MRE technologies
- MaRINET2: access to 57 test platforms in 13 European countries
- Marine Energy Alliance: technical and commercial support services of 8 european partners