FloWave sets up tank testing workshop

The Institute for Energy Systems and the FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility at the University of Edinburgh will jointly host a practical and best practice workshop on ‘how to do tank testing’.

The workshop is aimed at those with little or no experience of medium scale model testing, but who need an understanding of tank testing best practice in order to inform or better plan an upcoming test campaign. The one-day workshop could also be of interest to those investing, funding or insuring new ocean technologies.

It will begin with classroom based introductions to the objectives of testing, how to design a test campaign for optimum results, and what can and cannot be inferred from test tank results when scaling up to the real world.

Participants will be introduced to the University’s recently upgraded ‘curved tank’ before completing some practical hands-on tank testing at the £10.3 million FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility.

This will involve rigging, setting-up and running complex sea-state and combined wave and current tests on one of FloWave’s floating offshore wind turbine models, and will cover the practical aspects of model design, sensor integration, instrumentation set-up, 3D motion capture, data acquisition, test campaign design, testing to schedule, on-the-fly results analysis, health & safety, and more.

The workshop will take place the day before the International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE 2016) as a side event, on February 22, 2016, at University’s College of Science & Engineering campus in Edinburgh.

It is open to ICOE delegates only and requires a registration.

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