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Project/Service Agreement:OCEANERA/0004/2019

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General Data
Code: 75149
 
Reference: OCEANERA/0004/2019
Short name: WEC4Ports
Title: A hybrid Wave Energy Converter for Ports
Competitive Funding: Yes
Does it involve businesses?: Yes
No. of Participating Institutions: 4
Scope
Type: Funded Project
 
Geographical Scope: International
 
Type of Action: R&TD
Funding
Programme: ERA-NET - European Research Area networks
Funding Institution: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Financial Geographical Scope: National
Date of the Funding Agreement: 2020-06-09
Scheduling
Effective Start Date: 2020-03-02
Expected Completion Date: 2024-03-01
Effective Completion Date: 2024-03-01
Budget
Currency: EUR
 
Total Approved Budget: 666.760,35 EUR
Details
Summary: The integration of WECs in port breakwaters represents a realistic solution to set these infrastructures on the right track in terms of balancing environmental challenges with economic demands. Further, authorities and the firms established upon port complexes are faced with the challenge of boosting both their international competitiveness and environmental performance, therefore being a unique industrial ecosystem to analyse what are the societal, environmental and economic impacts of ocean energy.

Most full-scale applications built so far to explore the dual mind-set of wave energy production and sheltering of harbour basins are based on two well studied concepts: the oscillating water column and the overtopping principle. The WEC4Ports project aims the development of a novel hybrid technology for port breakwaters to harvest ocean wave energy, that uses two well understood power generating technologies, air and water turbines. The disruptive approach idealised and developed within SE@PORTS project uses hybridisation to harness the wave energy resource more efficiently over a wider range of wave conditions (wave periods and wave heights), since it combines in a single module the advantages of two different, yet complementary, concepts. WEC4Ports builds on the outcomes of SE@PORTS project (TRL 3/4) and intends to perform further industrial R&D to progress the technology through a TRL 5/6. Further, WEC4Ports focus on the incorporation of the h-WEC in breakwaters, as a means to leverage the overall economics of upfront CAPEX.

The key components and subsystems of this ocean energy device (e.g., turbines), will be built to be demonstrated in the real ocean environment - Mutriku testing site, after being experimentally and numerically designed and optimised. The full-scale testing allows to assess and improve installation, operation and maintenance procedures of these complex power conversion systems as well as to obtain realistic estimations of their performan Ver mais. Adequado para parcelas de texto incompletas e que, através deste ícone, permite-se que o utilizador leia o texto todo.
Scientific Context
Scientific Domain (FOS - Level 2): Engineering and technology

Academic fields (CORDIS - Level 5)

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Documents
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Publications associated with the Project

Article in International Scientific Journal
Tomás Cabral (Author) (FEUP); Daniel Clemente (Author) (FEUP); Paulo Rosa Santos (Author) (FEUP); Francisco Taveira Pinto (Author) (FEUP); Tiago Morais (Author) (Other); Henrique Cestaro (Author) (Other)
2020
Institutions Participating in the Project
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Name Short name Country Type Participation Name Telephone Email
IMDC - International Marine & Dredging Consultants IMDC Bélgica Company Proponent
Eire Composites Teo ECT Irlanda Company Partner
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto FEUP Portugal University Partner Paulo Jorge Rosa Santos 225081965 pjrsantos@fe.up.pt
INEGI - Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial INEGI Portugal Non-profit institution Partner
 
Budgets and Teams
Approved Budget: 100.265,59 EUR
Approved Funded Amount: 100.265,59 EUR
Approved co-funded Amount: -
Funding Rate: -
Confidential Budget:

People in the Project

Institution Name Short name Role Dedication (%) Contribution (%) Allocation
Start date End date
FEUP Ajab Gul Majidi AGM Grant recipient 100 2021-03-10 2021-11-09
FEUP Daniel Rúben da Silva Pinto Clemente DRSPC Researcher 100 2024-01-01 2024-02-28
FEUP Francisco de Almeida Taveira Pinto FTP Researcher 2020-03-02 2023-03-01
FEUP Paulo Jorge Rosa Santos PJRS Official Researcher at the OU 2020-03-02 2023-03-01
FEUP Seyed Shahabedin Khalooeitafti SSK Grant recipient 100 2023-05-04 2023-08-31

Technicians in the Project

Technician Contact
FEUP 423364 Maria Isabel Esteves Peres 220413579
Laboratories
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