CPD Session 2013-2014 Semester 2

The following CPD Sessions were held in IDCORE Semester 2, 2013-2014:

  • Marine Operations, Condition Monitoring and Reliability
  • Physical Model Testing for Offshore Renewables
  • Structural Behaviour of Offshore Renewable Energy Devices
  • Electricity Network Interaction, Integration and Control
  • Marine Renewables and the Environment

Marine Operations, Condition Monitoring and Reliability

  • 13th January – 24th January 2014
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Course Leader: Professor Lars Johanning, the University of Exeter
  • Price: £2500

This course develops an advanced understanding of design and installation requirements in the fields of mooring and anchor design, deployment techniques and risk and project management. Attendees will gain competence in quasi-static and dynamic mooring analysis, anchoring and mooring methods and the implementation of recognised design codes, and competence with computational design tools that are routinely adopted in industry, for analysis and design tasks.

Learning Outcomes

  • Detailed knowledge and understanding of offshore risk and project management
  • Competence in undertaking response analyses of fixed and floating structures
  • Ability to apply theoretical principals and computer-based models for solving problems in offshore engineering applications

Physical Model Testing for Offshore Renewables

  • 27th January – 7th February 2014
  • Location: Glasgow
  • Course leader: Prof Sandy Day, the University of Strathclyde
  • Price: £3500

This course addresses laboratory-based testing and field trials for assessment of performance and survivability, instrumentation technologies, data acquisition and analysis, analysis of Uncertainty and experiment design, in the context of a highly time-and cost-limited campaigns. The course is taking full advantage of the Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory at the University of Strathclyde – the towing tank facility.

Learning Outcomes

  • Awareness of key instrumentation technologies which may be used in testing laboratories, and application of best-practice guidelines/standards
  • Understanding of different scaling laws which may apply from lab-scale or intermediate-scale field-trials to full scale
  • Ability to estimate the levels of uncertainty of their measurements

Structural Behaviour of Offshore Renewable Energy Devices

  • 17th February – 28th February 2014
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Course leader: Dr Erkan Oterkus, the University of Strathclyde
  • Price: £2500

This course complements the hydrodynamics and fluid structure interaction material developed in the Hydrodynamics course, focussing on advanced approaches to structural response and risk-based design.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understanding of the factors influencing the structural response of fixed and floating offshore renewable energy devices to external loading
  • Ability to predict ultimate strength of structural components of such devices

Electricity Network Interaction, Integration and Control

  • 3rd March – 14th March 2014
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Course leader: Prof Robin Wallace, the University of Edinburgh
  • Price: £2500

This course aims to give students an excellent working knowledge and understanding of the theory, technology and practice of the network interaction, integration and control of electricity supplied from offshore renewable energy converters.

Learning Outcomes

  • Theoretical understanding of power system operation and analysis

     

  • Ability to apply iterative methods of solve network power flow

     

  • Ability to use power-flow simulation software package to model generation, transmission and distribution of electricity

     

  • Appreciation and modelling the integration of renewable energy into the electricity network

     

  • Understanding the lifecycle of offshore networks, their design and economics

     

  • Theoretical understanding of the principles of power system economics.

     

  • Ability to apply economic constraint and optimise dispatch

     

Marine Renewables and the Environment

  • 28th April – 9th May 2014
  • Location: Oban
  • Course leader: Dr Ben Wilson, the Scottish Association for Marine Science
  • Price: £3500

This course gives attendees an understanding of the key oceanographic, biochemical and faunal features of coastal marine systems from an ecological perspective as they impinge on offshore renewable energy developments. Background biology of key habitats and species groups are introduced along with their likely vulnerabilities to interactions (negative or positive) to device construction or operation. The most common survey and data processing techniques are introduced along with practical demonstrations at sea and in the lab. Particular attention is paid to the differences and difficulties of collecting unbiased data in high energy environments.

Learning outcomes

  • Understanding of shelf sea processes, benthic and littoral habitats and pelagic marine vertebrates
  • Appreciation of the interaction of these topics and the offshore renewable energy sector
IDCORE Research Engineers working by the Edinburgh wave tank
IDCORE Research Engineers working by the Edinburgh wave tank