Projects

RealTide

RealTide: Advanced monitoring, simulation and control of tidal devices in unsteady, highly turbulent realistic tide environments

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Description

The RealTide project aims to identify the causes of the main failures of tidal turbines and to provide a step-change in the design of key components adapting them more accurately to the complex environmental tidal conditions.

Advanced monitoring systems together with maintenance strategies are been implemented to achieve increased reliability and improved performance over the full tidal turbine life. RealTide is pushing the transition of the tidal sector.

RealTide is a response to the Horizon 2020 Competitive Low-carbon Energy call "Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity and heating/cooling" (LCE-07-2016). The project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727689. RealTide is running since 1st January 2018.

Project summary

Funder(s):	European Commission H2020
Lead partner:	Bureau Veritas
Full partner list:	University of Edinburgh; IFREMER; Bureau Veritas; EnerOcean; Sabella; 1-Tech; Ingeteam; Bureau Veritas Solutions Marine & Offshore
Value:	€4,974,990
Status:	Completed
Dates:	Jan. 1, 2018 to Dec. 16, 2021
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File Library

Technical Reports

ID	Title	Year	Version	Pages
D1.1	Increased Reliability of Tidal Rotors	2019	-	198
D1.2	RAM Assessment Report	2020	00	133
D1.3	Effect of sea water aging on the static and fatigue properties of composites for tidal blade design	2020	00	49
D1.4	Methodology for the fatigue assessment of composite material blades	2020	01	47
D1.6	Guidelines for the development of tidal turbines reliability databases	2021	05	130
D1.7	Reduction of environmental impacts due to increased reliability	2021	01	40
D2.1	Deployment and Instrument Specification for Advanced Flow Characterisation	2019	04	45
D2.2	Next Generation Flow Measurements and Flow Classification	2021	04	125
D2.3	Environmental Conditions Database	2021	03.1	56
D3.1	Generalised tide-to-wire-model	-	-	113
D3.2	Blade resolved CFD modelling of tidal turbines	2020	00	92
D3.4	Inter-comparison of BEMT, Blade-Resolved CFD, and BEMT-CFD Hybrid Models of scale turbines	2020	01	33
D3.5	Report on Synthetic Load Spectra and Time Series	2021	02	41
D4.3	A report on condition-based maintenance, its impact on monitoring and comparison to other maintenance strategies	2020	00	103
D5.2	Novel Materials for Blade Design	2021	00	32