Successful completion of AMOG’s Sea-Saw Wave Energy Converter model testing at FloWave.
AMOG is pleased to announce the successful completion of Model Testing of the Sea-Saw Wave Energy Converter (WEC) at the FloWave circular tank facility within the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The tests took place as part of the EuropeWave Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) programme.
The AMOG Sea-Saw WEC, designed and built at model scale, includes integrated power take off units to enable direct power take off measurements. AMOG is pleased to announce that this was one of the most successful power-producing tests to date, and these tests will now underpin our development of a grid scale wave energy converter.
The testing campaign included a series of IEC regular wave and irregular wave specification tests, along with robustness checks on quartering conditions.
AMOG’s guiding principles for developing WEC technology are:
It was the first three of these five principles that stood AMOG in good stead with AMOG’s WEC Gen 1 single hull device; which worked the first time it was deployed offshore Cornwall in 2019. In a rapidly evolving renewable energy sector, AMOG built upon this success, and added principles #4 and #5 for the development of the Sea-Saw WEC technology.
AMOG has experience performing model basin tests for numerous clients, operating in different sectors and with a range of floating structures. This experience, complementing the company’s expertise in areas such as floating systems, moorings and mooring integrity, and cables, provides a solid foundation of work to progress advances in wave and offshore renewable energy technologies.
We are proud to be leading an international consortium which involves major partners Ocean Energy Systems Ltd of the UK, Phase Motion Control of Italy, Offspring International Ltd of the UK, FloWave in the UK, and minor partner MechAdept.
Consultant for Offspring International Limited
2 年Many congrats to all involved. Every success for the next phase.
Director, AMOG Consulting Pty (Australia) and AMOG Consulting Ltd (UK)
2 年A long and challenging journey from our capability demonstrator off Falmouth in 2019 to the first tank trials of our grid utility scale device. I'm proud to be working with the AMOG team in the UK and Australia, the EuropeWave Project and our other partners to bring Phase 1 to a close and put our technology forward for the next phase. Now, more than ever, we need to broaden and accelerate the spread of renewables by leveraging the long experience of the oil and gas sector in the marine envrionment. Thanks AMOG team for your huge commitment to this project to date.
Good to focus on harmonics. Experienced mooring failures on Southern Cross drilling rig offshore Rottnest WA due to swell sequence and rig heave stressing moorings and creating harmonics.
Bachelor of Science-Mechanical Engineering (External Degree) at University of London
2 年Omg!
Independent Maritime Consultant and Non Executive Director
2 年Congratulations Hayden and all partner companies, demonstrating true leadership and successful delivery of technological innovation. May there be more of this.