Tackling the research challenges sessions: Themes A-G
In these sessions, delegates will hear summaries of the latest research from the Supergen ORE Hub Flexible Funded projects a corresponding theme from our Supergen ORE Hub Research Landscape, in addition to presentations from the Hub Co-Directors on the latest developments in the Hub’s core research in this area.
In order to generate wider discussion during the session, delegates are encouraged to watch on-demand videos in advance of the session by following the links against each of the project titles provided below (this will link to a project page where further resources will also be available). The on-demand presentations will provide in-depth information about the project prior to the summary and discussion session, and will be made available a week before the Annual Assembly.
Following the summary presentations at the Assembly, a Q&A session will give delegates the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers regarding their research, but also look to discuss the current gaps in research within this theme and where future research should be directed. Delegates joining in person will be able to verbally ask questions, and those joining virtually will be able to type questions via the online platform. Delegates (both in person and online) will also be able to post their thoughts on these gaps in research and future direction at any point through the Annual Assembly through a dedicated chat board, which will be made available through the conference software ‘SpotMe’. Details of how to access ‘SpotMe’ will be provided in the Annual Assembly joining instructions.
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Tuesday 18 January 2022
15:00 – 17:00 Welcome, opening address and guest speakers – The potential of offshore renewable energy and perspectives on the next decade post COP26
Chair: Professor Deborah Greaves OBE – Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Plymouth)
Speakers:
- Professor Deborah Greaves OBE – Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Plymouth)
- Professor Dame Julia King - (Baroness Brown of Cambridge) DBE, FRS, FREng
- Sue Barr – Chair, Marine Energy Council
- Barnaby Wharton - Director, Future Electricity Systems, Renewable UK
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Wednesday 19 January 2022
09:30 – 10:45 Policy session – Making it happen: Contribution of offshore renewable energy policy to net zero GHG 2050 and perspectives on COP26
Chair: Henry Jeffrey - Supergen ORE Hub Co-Director (University of Edinburgh)
Speakers:
- Simon Richards - Development Manager (Marine), The Crown Estate
- Yannis (Ioannis) Dragotis - Head of Nuclear & Renewable Energy Innovation Delivery, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
- Tomasz Ligas - Head of Renewable Energy Innovation Delivery, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
- Dr Jim Fleming - Head of Energy, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Henry Jeffrey - Supergen ORE Hub Co-Director (University of Edinburgh)
- Sue Barr – Chair, Marine Energy Council (panel member)
10:45 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:45 Industry Session – Research and innovation priorities, and opportunities for collaboration between industry and academia
Chair: Ross Wigg - CEO and Founder of Rayner Low Carbon Technologies Ltd and Lead Industrial Partner for the Supergen ORE Hub
Speakers:
- Paul McKeever – Head of Electrical Research, ORE Catapult
- Rob Flynn - Commercial Manager, European Marine Energy Centre
- Kerry Hayes - Floating Offshore Wind Project Development Manager, Simply Blue Group
- Kate Rudman - Product Owner - Renewables - Offshore Wind, BP
- Marie Berthelot - Head of Renewables, EDF Energy
- Simon Cheeseman - Sector Lead (Wave and Tidal Energy) ORE Catapult (panel member)
13:00 – 14:00 Break
14:00 – 15:15 Parallel sessions: Theme B and Theme C
Tackling the research challenges session – Theme B: Fluid structure seabed interaction
Chairs: Professor Tim Stallard (University of Manchester) and Professor Richard Willden (University of Oxford), Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors
Speakers:
- Professor Tim Stallard (University of Manchester) and Professor Richard Willden (University of Oxford), Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors – Supergen ORE Hub core research update.
Watch Professor Tim Stallard and Professor Richard Willden's on-demand video. - Impact of Oscillatory Movement on Insulation Reliability of Cables Supplying Offshore Platforms
Dr Tony Lujia Chen - Lecturer in Electrical and Electron Engineering, University of Manchester - Cable scour from fluid-seabed interactions in regions of mobile sedimentary bedforms.
Dr Christopher Unsworth - Research Officer in Coastal Oceanography, Bangor University - Submerged bi-axial fatigue analysis for flexible membrane Wave Energy Converters.
Dr Mokarram Hossain - Senior Lecturer - General Engineering, Swansea University - Cost Effective Methods of Installing Offshore Wind Infrastructure.
Dr Marcin Kapitaniak - Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen - SharEd Anchor Multidirectional Load Envelopes with Strength Synthesis (SEAMLESS).
Dr Benjamin Cerfontaine - Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Southampton
Tackling the research challenges session - Theme C: Materials and manufacturing
Chair: Professor Feargal Brennan (University of Strathclyde), Supergen ORE Hub Co-Director
Speakers:
- Professor Feargal Brennan (University of Strathclyde), Supergen ORE Hub Co-Director – Supergen ORE Hub core research update.
Watch Professor Feargal Brennan's on-demand video. - Advanced, Modular Power Take-Off Design for Marine Energy Converters.
Dr Jonathan Shek - Senior Lecturer and Discipline Programme Manager, University of Edinburgh - COrrosion And fatigue protection of offshore wind Turbine structures using additive manufacturing technology (COATing).
Dr Shamir Muhammad- Research Assistant, Cranfield University - Development of Thermoplastic Composite Tidal Blades for Enhanced End of Life Recycling and Lower Cost Manufacturing (ThermoTide).
Dr Dipa Roy - Senior Lecturer in Composite Materials and Processing, University of Edinburgh - Physics-informed machine learning for rapid fatigue assessments in offshore wind farms.
Dr Robert Houseago - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Hull
15:15 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 17:00 Parallel sessions: Theme D and Themes A & G
Tackling the research challenges - Theme D: Sensing, control and electro-mechanics
Chairs: Professor Xiaowei Zhao (University of Warwick) and Professor Jim Gilbert (University of Hull), Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors
Speakers:
- Professor Xiaowei Zhao (University of Warwick) and Professor Jim Gilbert (University of Hull), Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors - Supergen ORE Hub core research update.
Watch Professor Xiaowei Zhao's on-demand video and watch Professor Jim Gilbert's on-demand video. - Enhancing Control Capability of ORE Systems for Stress Management and Grid Support.
Professor Li Ran - Professor of Power Electronics - Systems, University of Warwick - Smart piezoelectric metamaterials for partial discharge monitoring.
Dr Rolan Mansour - Research Associate - Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde - A hybrid and scalable digital twin for intelligent direct drive powertrain condition monitoring.
Professor Alasdair McDonald, Chair in Renewable Energy Technology, University of Edinburgh - Flow measurement for accurate tidal turbine design.
Dr Anna Young - Lecturer - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath
Tackling the research challenges - Themes A & G: Resource and environment characterisation, Environmental and Ecosystem
Chairs: Professor Beth Scott (University of Aberdeen) and Professor David White (University of Southampton), Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors
Speakers:
- Professor Beth Scott (University of Aberdeen) and Professor David White (University of Southampton), Supergen ORE Hub Co-Directors - Supergen ORE Hub core research update.
Watch Professor David White and Professor Beth Scott's on-demand video. - FORTUNE: Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Noise.
Dr Denise Risch - Marine Mammal Ecologist, Scottish Association for Marine Science - Accounting for Current in Wave Buoy Measurements.
Dr Samuel Draycott - Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow, University of Manchester - Veers’ Extension to Non-neutral Incoming Winds (VENTI).
Dr Marco Placidi - Senior Lecturer in Experimental Fluid Mechanics, University of Surrey - V-SCORES (Validating Surface Currents at Offshore Renewable Energy Sites).
Dr Benjamin Williamson - Lead Scientist - Environmental Research Institute, University of Highlands and Islands - WTIMTS - Wave-Turbulence Interaction and Measurement for Tidal Stream.
Dr Michael Togneri - Postgraduate Research Assistant, Swansea University - FASTWATER: Freely-Available mesoScale simulation Tool for Wave, Tides and Eddy Replication.
Dr Chris Old - Research Associate in Resource Characterisation for ORE, University of Edinburgh
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Thursday 20 January 2022
09:00 – 10:15 EDI session - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in offshore renewable energy academia and industry - what has been effective so far?
Chair: Professor Jim Gilbert - Co-Director and EDI lead of Supergen ORE Hub (University of Hull)
Speakers:
- Dr Pooja Goddard – Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Loughborough University and Royal Society Fellow
- Mara-Tafadzwa Makoni - Corporate Partnerships Lead, Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers
- Professor Jim Gilbert - University of Hull and EDI lead and Co-Director of Supergen ORE Hub
- Ross Wigg - CEO and Founder of Rayner Low Carbon Technologies Ltd and Lead Industrial Partner for the Supergen ORE Hub
- Emma Toulson - Lead Stakeholder Advisor UK, Ørsted
10:15 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 Update on EPSRC Marine Wave Energy Programme
Chair: Professor Deborah Greaves OBE, Professor of Ocean Engineering and Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Plymouth)
- Flexible Responsive Systems in Wave Energy: FlexWave
Professor Deborah Greaves OBE, Professor of Ocean Engineering (University of Plymouth) - New Generation Modelling Suite for the Survivability of Wave Energy Convertors in Marine Environments (WavE-Suite)
Professor Qingwei Ma, Professor of Hydrodynamics (City, University of London) - Holistic Advanced Prototyping and Interfacing for Wave Energy Control
Dr Adam Stock, Research Fellow (University of Strathclyde) - Mooring analysis and design for offshore WEC survivability and fatigue (MoorWEC)
Professor Peter Stansby, Professor of Hydrodynamics (University of Manchester) - MUE-DRIVE: Marinisation and Upscaling of an All Electric Drivetrain for Wave Energy
Dr Nick Baker, Senior Lecturer (Newcastle University) - Novel High Performance Wave Energy Converters with advanced control, reliability and survivability systems through machine-learning forecasting
Professor George Aggidis, Head of Energy Engineering (Lancaster University) - Bionic Adaptive Stretchable Materials for WEC (BASM-WEC)
Dr Qing Xiao, Reader in Marine Hydrodynamics (University of Strathclyde) - System-level Co-design and Control of Large Capacity Wave Energy Converters with Multiple PTOs
Dr Guang Li, Reader in Control Engineering (Queen Mary University of London)
12:00 – 12:45 Break
12:45 – 14:00 Parallel sessions: Theme E and Theme F
Tackling the research challenges session - Theme E: Survivability, reliability and design
Chairs: Professor Deborah Greaves OBE, Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Plymouth) and Professor Byron Byrne, Co-Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Oxford)
Speakers:
- Professor Deborah Greaves OBE, Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Plymouth) and Professor Byron Byrne, Co-Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Oxford) - Supergen ORE Hub core research update.
Watch Professor Deborah Greave's on-demand video and watch Professor Byron Byrne's on-demand video. - Passive control of wave induced platform motions for semi-submersible FOWTs.
Professor Ling Qian - Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Manchester Metropolitan University - Novel approaches for physical model testing of floating wind turbine platforms.
Professor Sandy Day - Professor of Marine Hydrodynamics, University of Strathclyde - Investigation into the coupling of a wave energy converter with a reverse osmosis desalination plant.
Dr Tapas Kumar Das - Research Fellow, Queens University Belfast - Improved models for multivariate metocean extremes (IMEX).
Dr Ed Mackay - Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Tackling the research challenges session - Theme F: Operations, Management, Maintenance and Safety
Chair: Professor Philipp Thies, Co-Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Exeter)
Speakers:
- Professor Philipp Thies, Co-Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Exeter) - Supergen ORE Hub core research update.
Watch Professor Philipp Thies' on-demand video. - LoadTide – fatigue assessment of tidal turbine blades.
Dr Fergus Cuthill - Experimental Officer - FASTBLADE Structural Composites Research Facility, University of Edinburgh - iDRIVE: Intelligent driveability forecasting for offshore wind turbine monopile foundations.
Dr Brian Sheil - Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow of St Catherine's College, University of Oxford - Autonomous Biomimetic Robot-fish for Offshore Wind Farm Inspection.
Tianyuan Wang- PhD Student, University of York - Demonstrating a machine learning system to integrate metocean data, sensor networks, and model output for improved coverage and accuracy.
Dr Ajit Pillai - Senior Lecturer in Autonomous Systems and Robotics, University of Exeter
14:00 - 14:30 Break
14:30 - 15:45 International Session – Latest developments in international offshore renewable energy research
Chair: Henry Jeffrey - Supergen ORE Hub Co-Director (University of Edinburgh)
Speakers:
- Dr Habib Dagher - Executive Director of the Advanced Structures & Composites Center, University of Maine
- Wiebke Ebeling – Manager, Marine Energy Research Australia
- Samantha Quinn - Program Specialist at Pacific Ocean Energy Trust
- Edgar Gerardo Mendoza Baldwin - National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
- Dr Guangquan Xu - Offshore Wind Underwriter at Scor
- Jose Luis Villate - Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Circularity Director - Technalia
15:45 – 16:00 Closing address
- Professor Deborah Greaves OBE – Director of the Supergen ORE Hub (University of Plymouth)
