EquiMar: development of best practices for the engineering performance appraisal of wave and tidal energy converters

C. M. Johnstone; T. McCombes; A. S. Bahaj; L. Myers; B. Holmes; Jens Peter Kofoed; C. Bittencourt

EquiMar: development of best practices for the engineering performance appraisal of wave and tidal energy converters

C. M. Johnstone, T. McCombes, A. S. Bahaj, L. Myers, B. Holmes, Jens Peter Kofoed, C. Bittencourt

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At the present time there are no approved standards or recognised best practices being implemented for the performance appraisal and benchmarking of wave and tidal energy converters. As such, this develops considerable misunderstanding between device developers, testing centres, investors/ financiers etc when attempting to quantify the performance of a device since it makes it very difficult to reference and benchmark the performance of a marine energy converter. The EC Framework Programme VII EquiMar project has set out to develop a suite of Best Practices to be adopted when undertaking the performance evaluation of such systems in order to address this deficiency. This paper reports the development of a set of ‘Best Practices’ within the ECFPVII EquiMar project to be adopted for the performance quantification of wave and tidal energy converters as they evolve from an engineering concept to commercial scale deployment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	9th ewtec 2011 : Proceedings of the 9th European Wave and Tidal Conference, Southampton, UK, 5th-9th September 2011
Editors	AbuBakr S. Bahaj
Number of pages	8
Publisher	University of Southampton
Publication date	2011
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	The 9th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference : EWTEC 2011 - Southampton, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Sept 2011 → 9 Sept 2011

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Conference	The 9th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference : EWTEC 2011
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Southampton
Period	05/09/2011 → 09/09/2011

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Johnstone, C. M., McCombes, T., Bahaj, A. S., Myers, L., Holmes, B., Kofoed, J. P., & Bittencourt, C. (2011). EquiMar: development of best practices for the engineering performance appraisal of wave and tidal energy converters. In A. S. Bahaj (Ed.), 9th ewtec 2011: Proceedings of the 9th European Wave and Tidal Conference, Southampton, UK, 5th-9th September 2011 University of Southampton.

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Johnstone, CM, McCombes, T, Bahaj, AS, Myers, L, Holmes, B, Kofoed, JP & Bittencourt, C 2011, EquiMar: development of best practices for the engineering performance appraisal of wave and tidal energy converters. in AS Bahaj (ed.), 9th ewtec 2011: Proceedings of the 9th European Wave and Tidal Conference, Southampton, UK, 5th-9th September 2011. University of Southampton, The 9th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference : EWTEC 2011, Southampton, United Kingdom, 05/09/2011.

EquiMar: development of best practices for the engineering performance appraisal of wave and tidal energy converters. / Johnstone, C. M.; McCombes, T.; Bahaj, A. S. et al.
9th ewtec 2011: Proceedings of the 9th European Wave and Tidal Conference, Southampton, UK, 5th-9th September 2011. ed. / AbuBakr S. Bahaj. University of Southampton, 2011.

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