EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Wind and Marine Energy Systems

这项建议是在风能和海洋能源系统领域设立DTC。它汇集了英国领先的风能机构斯特拉斯克莱德大学和海洋能源大学爱丁堡大学。更广泛的目标是利用与欧洲研究共同体的现有联系，保持不断增长的研究能力，以DTC为核心，在风能和海洋能源方面处于国际领先地位，并与丹麦、美国、德国和荷兰的领先中心相媲美。为了满足这一领域的跨学科研究需求，需要大量的工作人员和早期研究人员，这项提议将提供的那种，结合所有相关技能。在两个机构之间，学术人员拥有深入的专业知识，涵盖风浪资源、空气动力学和流体动力学、风力涡轮机和海洋能源设备的设计、风力发电场、固定和浮动结构、风力涡轮机、风力发电场和海洋能源设备控制、电力转换、状态监测、资产管理、电网整合问题以及可再生能源的经济。将建立一个与风能和海洋能源行业有密切联系的学习和研究中心，为博士生提供一个鼓舞人心的环境。在为期四年的计划的第一年，将为学生提供风能和海洋能源各个方面的广泛强化培训，以及研究、通信、商业和创业技能方面的专业工程师培训。后者将贯穿该方案的四年。将在风能和海洋能源的所有方面进行研究。风能和海洋能源系统的DTC对英国能源部门至关重要，原因有很多。英国电力供应行业目前正在经历具有挑战性的转型，原因是需要实现政府具有约束力的欧洲目标，即到2020年可再生能源占英国一次能源消费总量的15%。鉴于运输和取暖能源的有限比例将来自这些来源，预计电力供应将对这一目标作出主要贡献。因此，40%或更多的电力将不得不来自非热能来源。据预测，到2015年，英国的陆上和海上风能市场将增长到200亿GB。可再生能源领域存在一个公认的技能缺口，这可能会限制英国和其他地区的预期增长，除非大学大幅增加在这一地区的活动规模。在斯特拉斯克莱德大学，学生们最初将住在皇家学院大楼的定制宿舍里，为现有的风能和海洋能源系统DTC分配和翻新，然后在技术和创新中心大楼完工后入住。在爱丁堡大学，学生们将住在为离岸可再生能源现有IDC分配和翻新的Kings大楼中的定制宿舍。学生将有机会接触到最先进的设计、分析和仿真软件工具，包括行业标准的风力涡轮机和风电场设计工具以及广泛的电力系统和计算模型包。学术团队与行业现有的非常紧密的联系将被用来通过其工业咨询委员会的公司成员资格和参与作为培训年度一部分的8周7项目和3年制博士项目，为拟议的风能和海洋能源DTC提供战略指导。此外，除了为项目提供建议和参与遴选过程外，行业合作伙伴还为学生提供数据、专业软件、试验台访问以及建议和指导等形式的支持。

This proposal is to establish a DTC in Wind and Marine Energy Systems. It brings together the UK's leading institutions in Wind Energy, the University of Strathclyde, and Marine Energy, the University of Edinburgh. The wider aim, drawing on existing links to the European Research Community, is to maintain a growing research capability, with the DTC at is core, that is internationally leading in wind and marine energy and on a par with the leading centres in Denmark, the USA, Germany and the Netherlands. To meet the interdisciplinary research demands of this sector requires a critical mass of staff and early stage researchers, of the sort that this proposal would deliver, to be brought together with all the relevant skills.Between the two institutions, academic staff have in-depth expertise covering the wind and wave resource, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, design of wind turbines and marine energy devices, wind farms, fixed and floating structures, wind turbine, wind farm and marine energy devices control, power conversion, condition monitoring, asset management, grid-integration issues and economics of renewable energy. A centre of learning and research with strong links to the Wind and Marine Energy industry will be created that will provide a stimulating environment for the PhD students. In the first year of a four year programme, a broad intensive training will be provided to the students in all aspects of Wind and Marine Energy together with professional engineer training in research, communication, business and entrepreneurial skills. The latter will extend throughout the four years of the programme. Research will be undertaken in all aspects of Wind and Marine Energy.A DTC in Wind and Marine Energy Systems is vital to the UK energy sector for a number of reasons. The UK electricity supply industry is currently undergoing a challenging transition driven by the need to meet the Government's binding European targets to provide 15% of the UK's total primary energy consumption from renewable energy sources by 2020. Given that a limited proportion of transport and heating energy will come from such sources, it is expected that electricity supply will make the major contribution to this target. As a consequence, 40% or more of electricity will have to be generated from non-thermal sources. It is predicted that the UK market for both onshore and offshore wind energy is set to grow to £20 billion by 2015.There is a widely recognised skills gap in renewable energy that could limit this projected growth in the UK and elsewhere unless the universities dramatically increase the scale of their activities in this area.At the University of Strathclyde, the students will initially be housed in the bespoke accommodation in the Royal College Building allocated and refurbished for the existing DTC in Wind and Marine Energy Systems then subsequently in the Technology and Innovation Centre Building when it is completed. At the University of Edinburgh, the students will be housed in the bespoke accommodation in the Kings Buildings allocated and refurbished for the existing IDC in Offshore Renewable Energy. The students will have access to the most advanced design, analysis and simulation software tools available, including the industry standard wind turbine and wind farm design tools and a wide range of power system and computation modelling packages.Existing very strong links to industry of the academic team will be utilised to provide strategic guidance to the proposed DTC in Wind and Marine Energy through company membership of its Industrial Advisory Board and participation in 8 week 7 projects as part of the training year and in 3 year PhD projects. In addition, to providing suggestions for projects and engaging in the selection process, the Industry Partners provide support in the form of data, specialist software, access to test-rigs and advice and guidance to the students.