SELKIE Webinar – Foundations & Mooring Systems for Marine Energy
This webinar aims to:
– Engage with companies who use foundation and mooring design tools for wave and tidal energy devices which help to produce a safe design at the lowest cost.
– Promote the Selkie tools which we are developing to improve foundation and mooring designs.
– Receive industry input to the design and hear what results companies would find most useful.
– Listen to developers who have successfully installed marine renewable energy devices and how they chose the optimum design.
Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions (GDG), Dublin, are leading this workpackage along with University College Cork ( UCC ) and DP Energy Ireland.
Speakers:
Chair: Jay Sheppard, Marine Energy Wales
2:00: TJ Horgan, Selkie Project
Title: Introduction to the Selkie Project
2:05: Dr Paul Bonar, Offshore Research Engineer, Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions Ltd
Title: Foundation and mooring system design in the marine energy sector
2:15: Dr Majid Hussain, Postdoctoral Researcher, MaREI Centre, University College Cork
Title: Design tools for foundations and mooring systems
2:20: Kate Dineen, Research Masters Student, MaREI Centre, University College Cork
Title: Assessment of mooring and foundation design practices for ocean energy converters
2:25: Sara Armstrong, DP Energy
Title: Selkie Foundation and Moorings Tools: A Project Developer Perspective
2:35 TBC
2:55: Sophie Crouch, Selkie Project
Title: The Selkie network
3:00: Q&A
About the project:
SELKIE is a cross-border project which aims to boost the marine energy industry in Wales and Ireland by bringing together leading researchers and businesses to improve the performance of marine renewable devices and technologies. University College Cork are leading the project in partnership with Swansea University, Marine Energy Wales, Menter Môn, DP Energy Ireland and Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions.
Multi-use technology tools, templates, standards and models are being created for use across the industry; which will be tested and validated on wave and tidal pilot demonstration technologies. The pilot testing will advance knowledge and improve marine energy devices in terms of their reliability, survivability, operability, stability and commercial viability.
The project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Cooperation programme.
