EMEC:
During the 3 months that EMEC manage OCTARRAY the following have been accomplished:
Myles Heward Project Manage the Octarray project full time from September to December until the suspension of the project.
During this period, EMEC led on getting fortnightly meeting and Finance coordination to distribute the pre-financing. Further the marketing activities have been started and a series of logo designed for choices by the partners (provided), the choice was not made yet when the suspension was announced which is why there is no final logo.
EMEC organised the Kick-off meeting (Minutes attached D1.1). The 21 actions listed at the end of the minutes have been dealt with.
Significant time have been dedicated to work on the risk register with the consortium to agree risk, scores, mitigation and scores after mitigations (see the attached deliverables D1.3). The risk register also contains a contingency plan that have been discuss on the basis of Open Hydro return of experience on the operations and EMEC process on the Integrated Management System and the different Emergency Procedures and related Standard Operating Procedures test trial at EMEC test site. Further the Health and Safety aspect have been discussed and approved in the Deliverables D9.6.
During the 3 months of implementation of OCTARRAY, Task 6.1 Operation and Monitoring Incident Planning have been explored in more detailed by the consortium, and EMEC dedicated substantial amount of time with JBA.
JBA was approach as a potential Operation and Maintenance (O&M) tool provider for the marine operations of the Open Hydro device and specifically looking at data collection and analysis.
To create a detailed specification of work for the application of those innovative O&M EMEC had several meetings looking at the opportunities for OCTARRAY and assessing the interest of the supply chain in supporting the development of specific suite of tools for Tidal Turbine and the key requirements for OCTARRAY and Open Hydro. During those researches, several meeting with JBA have led EMEC to suggest tools around:
• Turbine Information
• Turbine power curve for the analysis of the performances and correlate that information with key MET Ocean data and operations of the turbines components.
• Tolerances of vessels to tides, waves and currents for the different type of operations needed for the installation, maintenance and operations of the Open Hydro turbine.
• Historical meteocean data of the site, to allow modelisation and verification of the data collected in real time
Several meetings have looked at how to deal with sensitive data in the tool and the OCTARRAY consortium. Open Hydro was particularly looking at how to secure the turbine power curve analysis and make sure that confidentiality was part of the specification.
DTU:
Technical part
Following tasks were performed in WP1 by the 1.28 PMs:
DTUs activities on the project includes preparation and participation in the kick-off meeting.
Initial planning and design of the proposed physical model experiments. This planning was discussed with other
project partners. As part of this planning the first steps towards a scale model were taken, and a draft of a tidal turbine
model was produced using DTU-MEKs 3D-printer facility. The model setup was discussed with all members of the project group at DTU.
