PowerKite - Power Take-Off System for a Subsea Tidal Kite

Project Information

PowerKite

Grant agreement ID: 654438

DOI 10.3030/654438

Project closed

EC signature date 14 December 2015

Start date 1 January 2016

End date 31 December 2018

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Total cost € 5 074 363,65

EU contribution € 5 074 363,65

Coordinated by

MIDROC PROJECT MANAGEMENT AB
Sweden

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

External project website

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Documents, reports (8)

Dissemination report

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Environmental impact report

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Commercial power system design report

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Commercial service and maintenance strategy report

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Certification and standardization report

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Industrial value chain report

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Environmental monitoring baseline report

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LCA Report

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Other (1)

Environmental monitoring dataset

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Publications

Conference proceedings (12)

Concept Array design for Tidal kite power generators

Author(s): Per Salomonsson, Ingemar Bergvall *, Sofia Orhaug**, Peter Foxton***, Ana Novak, Quentin Antoine, Philippe De Rua **** * Midroc Project Management, ** Minesto, *** Moorlink, **** Engie Laborelec
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Seventh International Conference on Ocean Energy

Minesto Deep Green – Optimisation of the Power Take-Off System for a Novel Tidal Energy Device

Author(s): Anthony Mosquera, Daniel Hung, Jan Hallander, Yujing Liu, Johan Lennblad
Published in: NAFEMS 2018 UK Conference, 2018
Publisher: NAFEMS

Fluid-Structure Interaction of a Rigid Wing for Minesto Deep Green, A Tidal Energy Device

Author(s): Daniel Hung, Anthony Mosquera
Published in: NAFEMS 2018 UK Conference, 2018
Publisher: NAFEMS

Optimising multiple multibeam sonars to assess marine life interactions with an underwater kite.

Author(s): Lieber L, Nilsen T, Zambrano C, Kregting L
Published in: 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), 2017
Publisher: 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC)

Comparisons of Concentrated and Distributed Winding PMSM in MV Power Generation

Author(s): J. Zhao, Y. Liu, X. Xu
Published in: 2018 XIII International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), 2018, Page(s) 2437-2443, ISBN 978-1-5386-2477-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICELMACH.2018.8507199

Comparative Study of the Torque Ripple and Iron Losses of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator Driven by Multilevel Converters

Author(s): G. Mademlis, Y. Liu, J. Zhao
Published in: 2018 XIII International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), 2018, Page(s) 1406-1412, ISBN 978-1-5386-2477-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icelmach.2018.8506775

DC Link Voltage Balancing Technique Utilizing Space Vector Control in SiC-based Five-Level Back-to-Back-Connected NPC Converters

Author(s): Georgios Mademlis, Yujing Liu
Published in: 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2018, Page(s) 3032-3037, ISBN 978-1-4799-7312-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecce.2018.8558080

Feed-Forward Control for Active Voltage Balancing in Electric Drives with Five-Level NPC Converters

Author(s): Georgios Mademlis, Yujing Liu
Published in: 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2018, Page(s) 7258-7264, ISBN 978-1-4799-7312-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ecce.2018.8557365

Generator Speed Control and Experimental Verification of Tidal Undersea Kite Systems

Author(s): G. Mademlis, Y. Liu, P. Chen, E. Singhroy
Published in: 2018 XIII International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), 2018, Page(s) 1531-1537, ISBN 978-1-5386-2477-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icelmach.2018.8506980

Combined voltage balancing techniques of the DC link in five-level medium voltage NPC back-to-back converters for offshore renewable generation

Author(s): Georgios Mademlis, Yujing Liu, Nima Saadat
Published in: 2017 19th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'17 ECCE Europe), 2017, Page(s) P.1-P.10, ISBN 978-90-75815-27-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/epe17ecceeurope.2017.8099317

Cavitation tunnel tests with tidal turbines

Author(s): Jan Hallander, Abolfazl Shiri, Björn Bergqvist
Published in: 5th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurement Technology for The Maritime Industry (AMT’17), Issue 11th – 13th October 2017, 2017, Page(s) 406-417
Publisher: University of Strathclyde Glasgow

Design of low drag-to-power ratio hydrokinetic turbine

Author(s): Abolfazl Shiri, Jan Hallander, Neil Laughlin
Published in: VIII International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, MARINE 2019, Issue 13-15 May 2019, 2019
Publisher: CIMNE, International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Fine-scale hydrodynamic metrics underlying predator occupancy patterns in tidal stream environments

Author(s): Lilian Lieber, W. Alex M. Nimmo-Smith, James J. Waggitt, Louise Kregting
Published in: Ecological Indicators, Issue 94, 2018, Page(s) 397-408, ISSN 1470-160X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.06.071

Noise characterization of a subsea tidal kite

Author(s): Pál Schmitt, Matthew K. Pine, Ross M. Culloch, Lilian Lieber, Louise T. Kregting
Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Issue 144/5, 2018, Page(s) EL441-EL446, ISSN 0001-4966
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America
DOI: 10.1121/1.5080268

A tool for simulating collision probabilities of animals with marine renewable energy devices

Author(s): Pál Schmitt, Ross Culloch, Lilian Lieber, Sverker Molander, Linus Hammar, Louise Kregting
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 12/11, 2017, Page(s) e0188780, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188780

Other (1)

Environmental Impact Report of the H2020 project PowerKite

Author(s): Kregting L, Schmitt P, Lieber L, Culloch R, Horne N, Smyth D.
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Deliverable