Endika Aldaiturriaga, Product Engineer Oceantec...Endika Aldaiturriaga, Product Engineer [email protected] Oceantec Thank you for your attention!

Bilbao Marine Energy Week Ocean Energy Conference, 27 March 2017

Endika Aldaiturriaga, Product EngineerOceantec

Overview

I. Introduction to Oceantec Project II. Oceantec partnership in OceaNETIII. Opportunities for MRE SMEs participating in ITN programsIV. SuggestionsV. Conclusions

How can industry benefit from ITNs?

OceaNET Final Conference – Bilbao Marine Energy Week 2017

How can industry benefit from ITNs?

OceaNET Final Conference – Bilbao Marine Energy Week 2017

I. Oceantec in facts and figures

- Owned by Iberdrola and Tecnalia, founded in 2009- Focused in Offshore OWC based wave energy converter development (2013)- Grid-connected 30 kW prototype (MARMOK-A5) deployed in BIMEP since October 2016- Looking ahead to exploit & operate the WEC for at least 2 years more, including mooring and turbine changeover as part of OPERA1 Project.- Currently working in the design of full scale device

1 Grant Agreement No 654444

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Load-Out of the WEC

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Towing to bimep

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In-site installation of the WEC

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WEC up and running!

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Image: Courtesy of University of Exeter Turbine Drawing: Courtesy of Kymaner

Upcoming milestones in 2017 – OPERA1 project

1 Grant Agreement No 654444

II. Oceantec partnership in OceaNET

- François-Xavier Faÿ collaborated during 6 months with Oceantec- Consortium formed by Tecnalia, UPV-EHU and Oceantec as associate partner- Actually working towards obtaining his PhD: “Modelling and control of oscillating water column systems including energy storage solution”

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II. Oceantec partnership in OceaNET

- Undertaken activities (I): Numerical modelling, FD-TD model comparison and validation , parallelizable models , excitation force prediction using auto-regressive models, observer models…

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- Undertaken activities (II): Control law development, feedback control, model-based power optimization, online sea-state estimation…and others

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- Undertaken activities (III): Validation of Control law testing in Mutriku Wave Power Plant

- Experimental validation of modelsand control

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III. Opportunities for MRE SMEs participating in ITN programs

✓ Because learning takes place in Research Institutions and Universities (right place, right pace):

- Researchers gain in-depth view of technical challenges affecting MRE

- Researchers in direct contact with experts with extensive research background

- Acquire key personal abilities before starting secondment:

- Learn to be data driven and strive to always back points with solid analysis

- Become comfortable in presenting solutions internally and externally

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III. Opportunities for MRE SMEs participating in ITN programs

✓ Industry gains access to highly skilled researchers

- Researchers are a valuable contribution to project team from day 1

- They have a broad vision of the challenges of the sector, and solutions given in the sector to some common problems

- Also obtaining an opportunity to dedicate research time to non-critical highly innovative ideas or concepts.

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III. Opportunities for MRE SMEs participating in ITN programs

✓ As part of a network, researchers in ITNs contribute greatly to project team

- Short courses within the network help sharing knowledge and experiences in cross-cutting technologies affecting MRE sector

- Contribute to networking of MRE SMEs with transnational research institutions and other industry partners.

- Helps in the diffusion of applied research happening in MRE SMEs!

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III. Opportunities for MRE SMEs participating in ITN programs

✓ Researchers have direct contact with real applications

- Focused research into specific aspects of a technologies

- Everyday life in MRE SMEs is rushingto reach project milestones and solve

practical problems

- Simple solutions to complex problems favored against high profile solutions (KISS!)

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III. Opportunities for MRE SMEs participating in ITN programs

✓ Researchers have direct contact with real applications

- For good or bad, every single aspect of the technology done oroverseen in-house (We are SMEs after all!)

- Modelling, analyzing, optimizing- Design and validation- Installation, operation, maintenance- And the list goes on!

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IV. Suggestions

Based on our experience, extending secondment periods in the industrial partners could be beneficial

- Something around 50% of the time of secondment done in industrial partner would allow to put more stress in the applied research

(Probably solved through the figure of European Industrial Doctorates (EID) in H2020)

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V. Conclusions

Participating in ITNs is a win-win for both industry and researchers

- Industry gains access to highly skilled researchers with broad vision of challenges in the sector.

- Researchers contribute to the projects not only directly, but also through their networking and diffusion activities.

- Researchers experience daily life in MRE SMEs and gain direct contact with real applications.

How can industry benefit from ITNs?

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Bilbao Marine Energy Week Ocean Energy Conference, 27 March 2017

Endika Aldaiturriaga, Product [email protected]

Oceantec

Thank you for your attention!