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Overview
Hear from Professor Seamus Garvey, Neville Rieger Professor of Dynamics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, as he speaks about the current trials he has been conducting in France.
It is well known that a strong effort is needed to reduce the cost per kWh of offshore wind. This lecture will explore some underpinning engineering principles and outline methods to dramatically decrease the cost of offshore wind turbines.
Lecture Abstract:
Professor Seamus Garvey believes, passionately, that fresh engineering thinking is urgently needed. Present designs for offshore turbines are relatively minor extrapolations of the “Danish design” which has evolved over decades for onshore machines. Very probably, wind turbine designs can be developed specifically for the offshore environment that naturally have much larger length scales than existing designs. These might have the potential for much lower costs per kWh and they might exploit some features of the environment instead of simply trying to engineer around them. More importantly, these wind turbines might be elements of larger offshore energy farms providing integral capability to store energy and to dispatch it in response to real demand.
This talk will explore some underpinning engineering principles and then use these to pull out some examples of how designs might logically change over the coming decade or two. Real illustrations will be drawn from the presenter’s past and current research to support the overall core theme that system level thinking is crucial and that the UK still has time to develop major engineering and commercial activities in wind driven generation systems for the future.
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Seamus Garvey: Neville Rieger Professor of Dynamics, Faculty of Engineering, University Of Nottingham
Seamus Garvey, CEng, PhD, MIET, FIMechE is the Neville Rieger Professor of Dynamics in the Faculty of Engineering at the University Of Nottingham. A Mechanical Engineer by first degree, he began his career with six years at GEC Large Electrical Machines Ltd. in Rugby. Rotating machines of all shapes and sizes have become the central element of all of his work. He joined Aston University as a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in the early 1990’s and moved to Nottingham University in 2000 to take up his present chair. His school-days interest in renewables was renewed in 2006 when, as Director of Research for the University’s School of Mechanical Engineering, he led some activities looking at the potential for underwater compressed air storage with the intention that colleagues might take this over. The ideas stuck - despite his own many attempts to show by calculation that they had no merit. Garvey has become convinced of the urgent need to think about the two main challenges of future renewable energy systems together and has spoken and written extensively on this theme.
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