Development of Very Low Head Tidal Turbine

甚低水头潮汐涡轮机的研制

• 批准号: 10072702
• 金额: $ 108.31万
• 依托单位: JACOBS UK LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10072702
• 关键词: Development; Very; Low; Head; Tidal

Our SMART grant partnership combines Severn Estuary Tidal Bar (SETB) Ltd (who are promoting the economic case for tidal range projects in the Severn Estuary), Jacobs (who have researched and acquired a concept Very Low Head Turbine (VLHT) and developed a Design Philosophy for commercial scale development), the UK Tidal Range Alliance (who coordinate developers in the UK's tidal range power market), and leading academics from Cardiff, Lancaster and Liverpool John Moores Universities (who will provide subject matter expertise and assurance via a specialist steering group for this industrial research).Our industrial research project will produce critical evidence needed to rapidly commercialise SETB and Jacobs' First of a Kind (FOAK) VLHT, currently at Technology Readiness Level 3 (TRL3), for tidal range power projects. The VLHT will capture energy in both rising and falling tides.Our VLHT is being developed to address many of the challenges facing multiple UK tidal range schemes, including relatively high costs, sub-optimal turbine performance for bi-directional generation, and adverse environmental impacts. Our innovative VLHT will create the biggest disruption to tidal turbines for sixty years, with the VLHT offering an economic and environmentally sensitive means to harness the predictable, renewable power of our daily tides, reinvigorating this hitherto impeded industry.SMART grant funding will be targeted at finalising the design and manufacture of a 0.5 metre diameter physical scale model of the turbine and setting up a unique test rig. This will validate our theoretical modelling for a full scale turbine, enabling us to complete our investment case and unlock the further funding and investment required to move through subsequent TRLs, and into commercialisationVLHT technology offers an economic route to energy security by virtue of its potential to attract insurance market investment in dual use tidal power generation and defence against Sea Level Rise.

我们的SMART赠款伙伴关系结合了塞文河口潮汐酒吧（SETB）有限公司（他们正在推动塞文河口潮汐范围项目的经济案例），（他们研究并获得了极低水头涡轮机（VLHT）的概念，并为商业规模的开发制定了设计理念），英国潮汐范围联盟（谁协调开发商在英国的潮差电力市场），和领先的学者从卡迪夫，兰开斯特和利物浦约翰摩尔大学（世卫组织将通过专家指导小组为这项工业研究提供主题专门知识和保证）我们的工业研究项目将提供快速商业化SETB和Jacobs的首款（FOAK）VLHT所需的关键证据，目前处于技术就绪等级3（TRL3），用于潮汐发电项目VLHT将在涨潮和退潮时捕获能量。我们的VLHT正在开发中，以解决英国多个潮汐范围方案面临的许多挑战，包括相对较高的成本，双向发电的次优涡轮机性能以及不利的环境影响。我们创新的VLHT将创造60年来对潮汐涡轮机的最大破坏，VLHT提供了一种经济和环境敏感的方式来利用我们日常潮汐的可预测的可再生能源，重振这一迄今为止受到阻碍的行业。SMART赠款资金将用于完成直径为0.5米的涡轮机物理比例模型的设计和制造，并建立一个独特的试验台。这将验证我们对全尺寸涡轮机的理论建模，使我们能够完成我们的投资案例，并释放通过后续TRL所需的进一步资金和投资，并进入商业化VLHT技术凭借其吸引保险市场投资两用潮汐发电和抵御海平面上升的潜力，为能源安全提供了一条经济途径。