Marine current energy converter tank testing practices

Type Proceedings paper
Date 2008-10
Language English
Author(s) Germain GregoryORCID
Meeting 2nd International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE 2008), 15th – 17th October 2008, Brest, France
Source 2nd International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE 2008), 15th – 17th October 2008, Brest, France
Abstract The marine current resource is potentially large and could generate a significant part of the European Union's electricity requirements. Before the installation of marine prototypes, specific trials are necessary to evaluate the behaviour of each system and the ability to exploit tidal or marine currents. This paper presents a feed back of Ifremer tank testing practices but not only, for marine current turbine energy converter characterization. The main objective is to investigate the potentiality of the common experimental facilities to reproduce in-situ conditions, accepting that their use will continue to reduce the financial risk to the developper.
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Germain Gregory (2008). Marine current energy converter tank testing practices. 2nd International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE 2008), 15th – 17th October 2008, Brest, France. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00022/13366/