SuperGen Marine Energy Annual Assembly

Pollock Halls, Edinburgh - 1st October 2008

Programme - morning

• 10.00  Welcome and overview
  
  • Prof Robin Wallace
    
    
• 10.10  SuperGen objectives and review
  
  • Prof Ian Bryden
    
    
• 10.30  Real Time Wide Area Wave Tracking
  
  • Brian Sellar - UoE
    
    
• 10.45  Optical wave gauge
  
  • Dr Grégory Payne - UoE
    
    
• 11.30  Large tank testing in arrays
  
  • Brian Linfoot - HWU
    
    
• 12.00  Progress towards the sea
  
  • Prof Trevor Whittaker - Queens
    
    
• 12.30  Economics of variability and penetration
  
  • Prof Peter McGregor - Strathclyde
    
    

Programme - afternoon

• 14.00  Capacity building
  
  • Dr David Ingram - UoE
    
    
• 14.15  Internationalisation
  
  • Henry Jeffrey - UoE
    
    
• 14.30  UKERC Marine R&D Roadmap
  
  • Dr Markus Mueller - UoE
    
    
• 14.45  EQUIMAR
  
  • Dr David Ingram - UoE
    
    
• 15.00  Facilitated engagement workshop
  
  • All attendees
    
    
• 16.00  Feedback and close
  
  • Prof Robin Wallace
    
    

Poster session

•   Hydrostatic Lubrication of Linear Generators
  
  • Adam Bedford
    
    
•   Improved mooring design for WEC devices in an array formation
  
  • Andrew Vickers
    
    
•   Co-ordinated Control in Arrays
  
  • Anup Nambiar
    
    
•   Point wave energy converter for coastal protection and electricity generation
  
  • Armando Alexandre
    
    
•   CFD simulations of active wavemakers
  
  • Eoghan Maguire
    
    
•   Turbine analysis using computational fluid dynamics
  
  • Gareth Gretton
    
    
•   Vertical Axis Turbines for Marine Current Energy Conversion
  
  • Jon Winchester
    
    
•   Numerical modelling of the response of the tidal resource to barrage and lagoon developments
  
  • Laura Taylor
    
    
•   CFD Techniques for Modelling Marine Current Turbine Arrays under Oceanic Flows
  
  • Matt E Harrison
    
    
•   Reliability Models for Ocean Energy Converters
  
  • Mo Haghigi
    
    
•   The CO2 Trade Balance in the UK: The Role of Prices in Transmitting Economic Shocks
  
  • Michelle Gilmartin
    
    
•   Scale Effects in Tidal Current Energy Device Testing
  
  • Patricia Okorie
    
    
•   Reliability of marine energy converters
  
  • Philipp Thies
    
    
•   Non-Linear Feedback Control Applied to Marine Energy Collectors
  
  • Philip Cross
    
    
•   Quantifying the influence of sea state parameters over WEC performances
  
  • Remy Pascal
    
    
•   Direct-Drive Power Take Off
  
  • Richard Crozier
    
    
•   Quantifying “exposure” with Cost Effective Wave Resource Measurements
  
  • Robert Beharie
    
    
•   Investigation into the effects of Arrays and Ducting on a Marine Current Turbine
  
  • Sam Rose
    
    
•   Moorings and Fixings
  
  • Sam Euridge
    
    
•   Smooth Operators
  
  • Sarah Caraher