The document outlines plans for a £5 million collaborative research and development project led by the Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy. The project will focus on developing, manufacturing, and decommissioning wind, wave, and tidal turbines through industry partnerships. A key early project is a 1/10 scale testing of tidal turbine arrays in Strangford Lough, which will be one of the first such tests in the world. The goal is to advance renewable energy technologies and establish Northern Ireland as a leader in the field.

1. Centre
for
Advanced
Sustainable
Energy
Sustain
Ex
20th
March
2013
Pioneering
Innova@on
&
Research

2. CONTENTS

3. £5m
Collabora@ve
R&D
Industry
Led

4. WHAT?

5. Turbine
Development,
Manufacture
&
Decomissioning
• Wind,
wave
and
@dal
turbines
• Improved
design
and
manufacture:
whole
life
cycle,
carbon
footprint;
use
of
composites
-­‐
new
materials,
fibres,
hybrids
• Resource
and
site
characterisa@on:
modelling
&
measurement
• Technology
breakthroughs:
blade
technology/manufacture;
materials;
gear
boxes;
generator
technology

6. • Smart-­‐grid
challenges:
Voltage
control;
Real
and
ReacCve
power
control
• Genera@on:
Device
characterisCcs
of
emerging
distributed
generaCon
(DG)
technologies
• Storage
technologies:
“The
maximum
demand
in
the
province
is
around
1,800MW,
but
on
a
summer
night,
it
is
around
only
600MW.
If
it
is
a
windy
summer
night
and
there
is
1,500/1,600
MW
of
wind,
it
cannot
be
used
because
there
is
nowhere
for
the
power
generated
from
it
to
go.
(DETI
Barriers
report,
quo@ng
NIE)
Integra@on
&
Storage

7. Energy
Efficiency
•
Buildings
•
Process

8. Energy
from
Biomass
• Solid
biomass
to
energy
via
thermal
routes
• Anaerobic
Diges@on
• Biogas
upgrading
&
energy
conversion

9. WHERE?
Have
we
been
acCve
to
date?

10. Bringing
Academia
&
Industry
Together
• EnTERNI
• 1/10th
scale
Cdal
energy
R&D
project
• Energy
Storage
CollaboraCve
Network
• MATRIX
-­‐
SEHP
• EfW
CollaboraCve
Network
• TSB
/
EU
funding
applicaCons
• Workspace
‘Green
Town
Green
Space’

11. EnTERNI
• Tidal
Turbine
Commercial
Demonstra@on
Site
• Full
scale
Turbine
Arrays
• Up
to
10MW
–
3
berths
/
phases
• Suitable
sites:
Fair
Head
/
Torr
Head
Area
• Supported
by
Invest
NI
• Survey,
monitoring
&
research
studies
Crown
Estates
Leases
for
200MW
@dal
energy
in
Northern
Ireland
waters
–
Are
we
ready?

12. 1st
R&D
Project
• 1/10th
scale
tesCng
• Array
–
Cdal
turbines
• Montgomery
Lake
&
Strangford
Lough
• RPS,
Pure
Marine
Gen,
Sengenia,
CreaCve
Composites
&
Oceanflow
Energy
• QUB
–
Professor
Trevor
Whicaker,
Dr.
Bjoern
Elsaesser
• £170,000
Grant
for
R&D
–
Invest
NI
• WORLD
FIRST
happening
in
Northern
Ireland!

13. WHY
&
HOW?

14. Do
You
Want
to
Be
Part
of
this?
• Access
to
world
class
R&D
faciliCes
and
researchers
• 40%
electricity
from
renewable
energy
=
1440MW
• Influence
government
policy
&
strategy
• £1m
research
funding
per
annum
++
• New
market
opportuniCes
QUB
Riddel
Hall,
Thursday
28th
March
2013
09.30
–
13.00

15. WHO
?

16. CASE
Steering
Group
Thomas
Cromie
David
Surplus
Robert
Brennan
Roger
Henderson
Agri
AD
B9
Energy
Storage
B9
Organic
Energy
NIE
Professor
Roy
Douglas
Professor
Neil
Hewi_
Michael
Robinson
QUB
UU
AFBI

17. Contact
Details
Centre
for
Advanced
Sustainable
Energy
David
Keir
Building
Stranmillis
Road
Belfast,
BT9
5AG
Tel:
+44(0)28
9097
5577
Fax:
+44(0)28
9066
1462
w.mcgarel@qub.ac.uk
s.mccloskey@qub.ac.uk
www.case-­‐research.net