Programme of today 15h Welcome on board! 15h15 Presentations by Dr. Jos Beurskens, ECN Dr. Stefan Lammens, ZF Wind Power Antwerpen NV Hans Vercammen, Stefan Milis, Sirris – OWI-Lab 16h20 Arrival at DP World 16h40 Official inauguration of the climate chamber by Kris Peeters, minister-president of Flanders 16h50 Visits to climate chamber, networking, walking dinner 21h30 End (shuttles back to parking from 18h onwards)
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Programme of today
15h Welcome on board! 15h15 Presentations by
Dr. Jos Beurskens, ECN Dr. Stefan Lammens, ZF Wind Power Antwerpen NV Hans Vercammen, Stefan Milis, Sirris – OWI-Lab
16h20 Arrival at DP World 16h40 Official inauguration of the climate chamber by Kris Peeters, minister-president of Flanders 16h50 Visits to climate chamber, networking, walking dinner 21h30 End (shuttles back to parking from 18h onwards)
Offshore Wind Infrastructure
Application Lab (OWI-Lab)
For efficient and reliable offshore wind energy.
Sirris
Mission: To help companies implement
technological innovations
Federation for the technology industry
Collective centre of the technology industry • Non-profit organisation • Industry owned
40 % of Belgian wind energy jobs are related to ‘offshore wind’ Strong potential growth
Actual figures – Source: Agoria
3) Innovation needed to make this industry a succes
Not so much datasets yet available (or accessible) to optimize components Operations and maintenance cost needs to go down to reach grid parity Harsh environmental conditions (wind loads, temperatures, salt,…) Bigger turbines (12MW in design) ; Bigger means better design
1352 - 1521 (?) 2015
What does OWI-lab do? Investing 5.5M € in test - and monitoring
infrastructure 4 investment programs
Platform to initiate industry driven local and European research projects
Innovation projects with / for companies in the wind power sector
Development of R&D infrastructure Operationalize infrastructure Expansion of the
research infrastructure Innovation projects
Introduction OWI-Lab
Proposal OWI-project submitted to the
Flemish government
Kick-Off OWI-Project
2008
2010
Launch OWI-Lab Platform
01/2012
Inauguration OWI-Lab Test Facility 24 Companies / universities participating in user group Kick-off feasibility study Flanders Wind Farm Test Site
10/2012
Kick-off Shared R&D project
OptiWind (SBO)
09/2012
Growing industrial involvement
2008
2012
Founding members
Involved partners
5.5 mio € investments in state-of-the-art test & monitoring infrastructure
Stationary and Floating LIDAR
(FLIDAR™ )
Wind turbine component
Test Lab with large climate chamber (Temperature testing)
Remote measurement & monitoring
systems (SHM & CMS)
Development of tools for
smart O&M
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Large climate chamber - why
Testing, simulation and validation are key to improve reliability of WTG components Model validation / prototype testing Reduction of design cycle Offshore / remote testing = €€€€€ Offshore / remote reparation = €€€€€€€€€€€