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RiaSoR: Reliability in a Sea of Risk

Establishing industry best practice in reliability testing for wave and tidal devices

Published 13 June 2018 Last updated 5 November 2020

Intro

The Reliability in a Sea of Risk (RiaSoR) Oceanera-net project will establish industry best practice in reliability testing for wave and tidal devices through improved load measurements and verification, standardised design guidelines for marine energy systems, and increased safety in marine energy operations.

The Challenge

The goal is to consistently learn from the physical interactions between the device and its environment, while embedding this understanding and building robustness into marine energy technology designs. Collaborating with European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) and the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), ORE Catapult’s role in this collaborative project involves modelling systems and developing enhanced condition monitoring methodologies to improve the reliability and availability of electrical power conversion.

The goal is to consistently learn from the physical interactions between the device and its environment.

The Solution

The impact from RiaSoR on the ocean industry will be to demonstrate innovative reliability analysis. This reliability methodology is ultimately aimed at reducing health, safety and environmental (HSE) risks, technological risks, and operations and maintenance (O&M) costs, which will lower the levelised cost of energy (LCoE) for the sector.

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New methodology for increasing reliability of marine energy device power energy converters at the design stage
Secured funding for phase 2 of the project to successfully apply the methodology to real-sea marine energy device deployments
Enduring international collaboration with partners and knowledge and experience sharing across international borders


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