Tidal Stream Generators, current state and potential opportunities for condition monitoring

Vassilios Kappatos, George Georgoulas, Nicolas Avdelidis, Konstantinos Salonitis

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Abstract

Tidal power industry has made significant progress towards commercialization over the past decade. Significant investments from sector leaders, strong technical progress and positive media coverage have established the credibility of this specific renewable energy source. However, its progress is being retarded by operation and maintenance problems, which results in very low operational availability times, as low as 25 %. This paper presents a literature review of the current state of tidal device operators as well as some commercial tidal turbine condition monitoring solutions. Furthermore, an overview is given of the global tidal activity status (tidal energy market size and geography), the key industry activity and the regulations-standards related with tidal energy industry. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to provide a bird’s view of the current status of the tidal power industry to serve as a roadmap for the academia regarding the real needs of the tidal power industry.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVP Vibroengineering PROCEDIA
PublisherJVE International Ltd.
Publication date2016
Pages285-293
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event22nd Vibroengineering International Conference: Dynamics of Strongly Nonlinear Systems - Moscow, Russian Federation
Duration: 4. Oct 20167. Oct 2016
Conference number: 22
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Conference

Conference22nd Vibroengineering International Conference
Number22
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CityMoscow
Period04/10/201607/10/2016
Internet address
SeriesVibroengineering Procedia
Volume8
ISSN2345-0533

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