TWI and Stirling Dynamics are jointly showcasing REMO, online remote condition monitoring of tidal stream generators system, today at Bristol.
The REMO project, funded by European Commission, aims to provide an enabling technology for tidal stream energy, by reducing the projected life cycle maintenance costs of tidal stream energy by 50% and the generator downtime to a level comparable with wind turbines, thus ensuring the economic viability of tidal generators.
The REMO system is designed to remotely and permanently monitor the entire frequency spectrum of structural vibrations generated by all the rotating components of a tidal stream turbine.
The system will determine the vibrational signature of a healthy turbine and the evolution of that signature during the turbine life cycle. It will then discover any significant change in that signature that could be a symptom a structural health problem at any point in the life cycle, including the build up of marine fouling, and then issue an automatic warning.
The system will be validated by installing it on an in-service tidal stream generator.
TWI is an independent technology organisation, with expertise in solving problems in aspects of manufacturing, fabrication and whole-life integrity management technologies.
Stirling Dynamics provides mechatronic systems and specialist engineering design services for the aerospace and defense, space, marine and energy sectors.
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