EERA board: presentation of France
research/innovation programmes
Yann-Hervé De Roeck
yhdr@france-energies-marines.org
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Updated list of MRE projects in France
INDUSTRIAL, PILOT & TEST SITES
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Updated list of MRE academic teams in France
TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY
FRENCH Academic
teams on MRE
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French Environment and Energy management Agency
6 INDUSTRY LED PROJECTS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENTS
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PRISMER: connexion hub for
tidal turbines and transformer
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PILE & TIDE: seabed
preparation by a subsea remote
hydraulic submarine excavator
OceanGen: test of a floating
offshore wind turbine at SEMREV
Energy agency
The Maritime Clusters
Academic teams
France Energies Marines
French Environment and Energy management Agency
6 INDUSTRY LED PROJECTS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENTS
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SEA-TC: wetmate by induction
for medium voltage connexion
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SEA REED: design of a 6MW floating
offshore wind turbine
MARLIN: cold water pipe and thermal
exchanger design for OTEC
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Tools to initiate public-private synergies
THE 2 FRENCH MARITIME COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTER
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their ambition:
to contribute to the sustainable
development of the maritime and
coastal economy
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their "job":
to encourage the innovation between
companies and research laboratories.
Promote the results at international
level
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MEDITERRANEE
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Collaborative MRE projects
R&D PROJECTS CERTIFIED BY THE FRENCH SEA CLUSTERS
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Floating windturbines
• SEAREED DCNS project
• VERTIWIND (Med. Sea)
• FWWF
Tidal current systems
• EDF pilot farm
• SABELLA
• BLUSTREAM
• Alstom project
• URABAILA
Wave power converters
• BILBOQUET
• PMH
• PH4S
• MONACOREV
OTEC
• MARLIN
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Survey/Monitoring/Impacts
HYPERWIND
BLIDAR
SIMEO
IMPALA
GHYDRO
BENTHOSCOPE
EU projects
MERiFIC
CHANNEL MOR
REMCAP
Training
MRE Master (ENSTA)
All projects support SMEs
More details on www.pole-mer.com
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France Energies Marines
Laboratoire de recherche en Hydrodynamique, Energétique
et Environnement Atmosphérique
MODELLING AND TESTING CAPACITIES
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WECEXPERT: Database of capture
width ratios of WECs,
a Tool for power absorption screening
A. Babarit. A data base of capture width ratio of wave energy converters. Submitted
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NEMOH: world 1st OpenSource
Boundary Element Method code, >
100 downloads since jan.2014
http://lheea.ec-nantes.fr/doku.php/emo/nemoh/start
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Research Institute of the Naval Academy
MODELLING AND TESTING CAPACITIES
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VIRTUAL HYDROLE: Global Simulation of
Energy production of Marine Current Turbines.
Matlab-Simulink coupled models for:
resource, disturbance, drive train, PTO, control strategies
Turbine Cp curves as a function of pitch angle and TSR
Fixed Pitch Turbine control strategy with power leveling
PMSG based on Marine Current Turbine associated with a Super-capacitor ESS
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HYDROLE-44: design of direct
double salient Permanent Magnet
Generator. Modelling & test
The Maritime Clusters
Academic teams
France Energies Marines
PH4S Project
HYBRID 4 SOURCES MODEL EXPERIMENTATION AT SEA
PH4S : Solar, Wave, Tidal and Wind energy combination through
an original power hybrid system with a single electrical generator.
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Budget 1,1 M€
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Timeline : Q3 2014 Q3 2016
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PH4S challenge intends to reveal a realistic new opportunity
against structural Marine Renewable Energy barriers :
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Intermittent production
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Marine Infrastructure CAPEX & Energy conversion
OPEX
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PH4S program includes 3 different pilots and PhD on global
modelling..
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Public Research
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VALEF2 project
FLOATING WIND TURBINE DESIGN METHODOLOGIES
VALEF2 is an R&D collaborative project involving academic and industrial members of France
Energies Marines
Budget 2,1 M€ / Timeline Q4 2014  Q2 2016
Floating wind farms have a huge energy market potential which could be soon exploited. Both the Oil&Gas
and Wind industries have developed a strong technical expertise in their respective field. In the case of
floating wind farms, aerodynamic and hydrodynamic tools need to be merged, especially to properly model
aero-hydro-servo coupling effects. In the case of experiments, small scale tests are difficult due to the need
of simultaneously satisfy Reynolds (aerodynamics) and Froude (hydrodynamics) number constraints.
A specific approach is currently deployed in VALEF2 in order to develop, verify and validate numerical and
experimental methodologies. The project considers both horizontal and vertical axis floating wind turbines.
© Centrale Nantes
© IFPEN
Contact : marc.guyot@france-energies-marines.org
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© IFREMER - DCNS
France Energies Marines
BHFM project
HYDRODYNAMIC BENCHMARK FOR FIXED OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE SUBSTRUCTURES
BHFM is an R&D collaborative project involving academic and industrial members of
France Energies Marines
Budget 0,3 M€ / Timeline 2013-2014
The BHFM project aims at comparing the hydrodynamic models currently used for the
simulation of massive offshore sub-structures. The objective is to identify the influence of the
hydrodynamic modeling on the coupled wind and wave loads.
 Monopile, gravity based and tripod foundations
 Various sea-states using linear or non-linear wave modelisations
 Various loads models :
 Morison & MacCamy/Fuchs formulations
 Froude-Krylov pressure integration
 Linear and non-linear potential flow methods
 Spectral Wave Explicit Navier-Stokes Equation
(SWENSE)
© INNOSEA
© Centrale Nantes - INNOSEA
Contact : marc.guyot@france-energies-marines.org
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© INNOSEA
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AESTUS project
TURBULENCE CHARACTERIZATION FOR TIDAL TURBINE DESIGN
AESTUS is an R&D collaborative project involving academic and industrial members of France
Energies Marines
Timeline Q1 2013 Q4 2015
Characterization of the flow variability, especially at metric and decametric scales, is of prime
importance for both the optimization of tidal power extraction as well as for engineering applications
such as tidal turbine design and structural fatigue assessment.
AESTUS focuses on the knowledge of the turbulent characteristics of hydrodynamic flows in highly
energetic seas such as the ones considered for future tidal energy farms.
The aim of AESTUS is to explore the capabilities of in-situ instruments
(especially Acoustic Doppler sensors) for assessing the turbulent
features of intense tidal flows. Expected outcomes of the project,
include innovant measurement protocols and data analysis tools.
Contact : jean.francois.filipot@france-energies-marines.org
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© EDF /DCNS
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©F Lecornu
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©Alstom
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The objective of the BENTHOSCOPE project is to develop methods which are
innovative because they provide quantitative environmental monitoring of the
potential impacts of stream turbines on the benthic compartment of hard
substrates, for which conventional methods are lacking.
The rich biota in the benthos will therefore be described using passive acoustics.
ALPHEUS-MACROCHELES
Impala
ARTIFICIAL
UPWELLING’S IMPACTS ON MICROPLANKTON
The IMPALA project aims at studying the potential
impacts of releasing deep sea water below the surface
from an ocean thermal energy plant. Effectively, the
inflow of bottom water, whose temperature and
chemical composition are quite different, into the subsurface layer as well as the cooling of surface water at
the exchanger’s outlet, could locally induce alterations
in planktonic ecosystem function. It is comparable to
setting up an artificial upwelling.
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