SEM-REV R&D projects

The SEM-REV team also participates in collaborative R&D.

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

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