NaREC Marine Testing Facility (Nautilus)

在诺森伯兰郡布莱斯的新能源和可再生能源中心（NaREC）的拟议投资将允许在海上部署之前，以显着更低的成本对海上可再生能源的关键组件进行陆上测试和验证。NaREC海洋测试设施将建立并利用该中心的现有基础设施，为海洋驱动系统2和其他关键波浪和潮汐能设备组件提供测试基础设施。这将为海洋开发商提供一个关键的设施，在投入昂贵和高风险的海上测试和演示之前，在陆上测试和证明设计/组件-提高其效率和可靠性。就建造大规模设备和部署的成本而言，在真实的海洋条件下进行测试必然是昂贵的-因此，测试期间组件故障、重新设计或调整的成本非常大。这被该行业的潜在投资者和将成为这些技术最终客户的公用事业公司视为相当大的风险。这给该部门造成了严重的资金困难，并推迟了其发展。但是这个建议将允许在陆地上的早期阶段进行投资，以增加此后在水中原型测试的可靠性和成功的可能性。这将减少与用于将波浪能或潮汐能转换成电力的波浪能转换器或潮汐涡轮机内的机械和电子系统相关的成本。2即，用于将波浪能或潮汐能转换成电力的波浪能转换器或潮汐涡轮机内的机械和电子系统。ERDF项目启动和规划表格A v.03April 2009 3-。- 在随后的“苗圃”阶段部署，然后在全面原型阶段部署。因此，该提案将加速该发电机的开发。1000万英镑的投资将用于3兆瓦的测试系统，该系统将允许对潮汐能涡轮机组件和波浪能装置的能量转换单元（液压或线性发电机）进行可靠性和“破坏性测试“。该项目的主要目标是在2011年3月之前实现3个具体目标，以创建该设施。船用试验台开发2.海洋测量系统的开发3.开发海洋模拟建模软件这项投资将使每年进行三至八个主要测试项目，每个项目持续一至六个月（平均约三个月）。在每个项目中，将以受控的方式完成一些测试，使设计人员和操作人员能够确定在机器设计和效率方面可以进行哪些改进。这将降低在海洋条件下规模测试的失败水平，并避免在现场进行昂贵和危险的计划外干预以纠正它们。该试验设施将作为半商业设施运行，预计相当一部分用户将由公共部门项目研发资金提供部分资金（例如欧盟框架方案、碳信托、技术战略委员会、能源技术研究所、研究理事会）DECC预计，一旦投入使用，对该设施的需求将很大。目前还没有类似的测试。世界其他地方的设施和英国已经是海洋能源设备开发和测试的重点。该设施将允许开发人员在整个开发过程中测试和提高其设备的可靠性，从中型原型到全尺寸商业设备-与海上测试相比，成本和风险显着降低。该设施还将用于测试旨在降低成本的商业规模设备的工程变更。这将确保在中长期内持续的客户群

The proposed investment at the New and Renewable Energy Centre (NaREC) inBlyth, Northumberland will allow the onshore testing and proving of criticalcomponents for marine renewables onshore at significantly lower cost, prior todeployment at sea. The NaREC marine testing facility will build on and utilise existinginfrastructure at the centre to provide testing infrastructure for marine drive systems2and other critical wave and tidal energy device components. This would provide akey facility for marine developers to test and prove designs/components onshore -improving their efficiency and reliability - before committing to costly and high risktesting and demonstration at sea.Testing in real marine conditions is necessarily expensive in terms of the costs ofbuilding large scale devices and deployment - and the cost of component failure,redesign or adjustment during testing are therefore very large. This is seen as aconsiderable risk by potential investors in the sector and by the utilities who will bethe ultimate customers for these technologies. This has created significant fundingdifficulties for the sector and delayed its development. But this proposal will allowinvestment at the earlier stage, on land, to increase the reliability and likelihood ofsuccess of prototype tests in the water thereafter. This will reduce both costs andrisk_s associated_ with the mechanical and electronic systems within a wave energy converter or tidal turbineused to convert wave or tidal energy into electricity.2 I.e. the mechanical and electronic systems within a wave energy converter or tidal turbineused to convert wave or tidal energy into electricity.ERDF Project Initiation and Planning Form A v.03 April 2009 3- . -deployed at the subsequent "nursery" stage and then at the full-scale prototypestage. The proposal will therefore lead to an acceleration of the development of thesector.The £10 million investment would be for a 3 MW testing system will allow reliabilityand "destruction testing"3 of tidal energy turbine assemblies and the energyconversion units (either hydraulic or linear electric generators) of wave energydevices. The key objectives of the project will be to deliver 3 specific objectives tocreate the facility by March 2011.l. Marine test stand development2. Development of a marine measurement system3. Development of marine simulation modelling softwareThe investment would allow between three and eight major testing projects, eachlasting between one and six months, to be carried out annually (on average aroundthree months duration). In each project a number of tests would be completed in acontrolled manner, allowing designers and operators to determine whereimprovements could be made in machine design and efficiency. This will reduce thelevel of failures in scale testing in marine conditions and avoid the costly andhazardous unplanned interventions in the field needed to correct them. The testfacility would be run as a semi-commercial facility and a significant proportion of theusers would be expected to be part-funded by a mixture of public sector project R&Dfunding (e.g. EU Framework Programmes, Carbon Trust, Technology StrategyBoard, Energy Technologies Institute, Research Councils) alongside privateinvestments.DECC anticipate that there will be a high demand for the facility once commissioned.There are no comparable testing facilities elsewhere in the world and the UK isalready a focus for the development and testing of marine energy devices. Thefacility will allow developers to test and improve the reliability of their devicesthroughout the development process from medium scale prototypes through to fullscalecommercial devices - at significantly lower cost and risk in comparison to seatesting. The facility will also be used for testing engineering changes in commercialscale devices aimed at cost reduction. This will ensure an ongoing customer base inthe medium and longer term