Speakers Programme

Nortek Offshore Renewables Symposium
26th- 27th October 2011

"Use of acoustic Doppler measurement technology in the field of offshore renewable Energy."

Wednesday 26th October

08.30 Registration, coffee and tea09.00 Welcome address - Gordon Jones. NortekUK

Wind Farms - Wave, Current and Scour Measurements

09.10 A Wind Farm Operator's offshore environmental survey needs, with particular reference to scour - Keith Hensen. Dong Energy Power (UK) Ltd.
09.40 Review of scour around Round 1 wind-farm under the SED01 project - Dr. Tony Dolphin. CEFAS (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science)
10.10 Scour in the Marine Environment: Future Challenges.  A comparison of large-scale, offshore, scour monitoring programs and small-scale experimental data - Dr. John Harris. HR Wallingford
10.40 - 11.10 Coffee / Tea break
11.10 Acoustic distance measurements: An inexpensive method for online scour detection - Ketil Horn. Nortek A/S
11.30 Measuring foundation scour 24/7: Necessities, pitfalls and successes - Dr. Kevin Black. Partrac Ltd.

12.00 Nortek SeaDarq Radar: An holistic approach to measuring currents over wind farms and possible use in scour monitoring - Sicco Kamminga, Nortek b.v
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 Vectrino II: The ultimate tool for scour and turbine model tank measurements - Ketil Horn. Nortek A/S

13.50 What are the potential environmental impacts from wet renewables.  The regulatory advisors viewpoint - Dean Foden. CEFAS (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science)
14.20 Application of an Aquadopp HR Profiler to measure velocity profiles near a monopile in waves (large-scale experiments) - Advantages and Drawbacks - Ulrike Schmidtke. The Coastal Research Centre Joint Central Institution of the University of Hannover and the Technical University of Braunschweig (FZK)
14.50 The use of Aquadopp profilers with Fugro Seawatch buoys during offshore wind farm planning and construction - Richard Davies. Fugro Ltd
15.20 - 15.50 Coffee/Tea break
15.50 The application of an AWAC on the FlexMetBuoy and FlexMetMast - Dr.Bart C. Ummels. BMO Offshore
16.20 Prolog: A reliable online wave analyser - Stephen Andre. GEMS Survey Ltd.
16.50 The practicalities of using Acoustic Telemetry Modems in online systems - Torstein Pedersen. Nortek A/S
17.20 - 17.45 Discussion

Thursday 27th October

Tidal Turbines - measurement of turbulent and laminar flow

09.00 EMEC's contribution to Wave and Tidal renewables - John Lawrence. European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd
09.30 Characterisation of turbulent flows for the purpose of tidal turbine load calculations - Mat Thomson. GL Garrad Hassan
10.00 Flow measurements on and around a commercial scale tidal turbine - Prof. Ian Bryden / Brian Sellar. University of Edinburgh
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee / Tea Break
11.00 ADCP Data Acquisition for a Prospective Tidal Turbine Site in West Wales - Paul Evans. Cardiff University & Iain Fairley. Swansea University
11.30 Tidal Turbine ADCP monitoring in Strangford Lough - 1/10th to full scale experience. International standards update - Cuan Boake. Queen's University Belfast
12.00 The measurement of turbulence in extreme flow conditions - Robin Newman. EMU Environmental Ltd
12.30 Moorings design and data quality in high flows - Dr. Jon Taylor. HR Wallingford Ltd
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 Proposed methodology for feeding AWAC data into turbine models for the purpose of generating load cases for use in the NAREC Nautilus Marine Test facility - Jonathan Hughes & Richard McSherry. National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec), Blyth
14.30 Deploying an AWAC in 60m of water for the Wave-Hub project UK: An Overview - Richard Khaira-Creswell. Halcrow Group Ltd.
15.00 Characterization of non-steady flow at a tidal site, and of its effect on turbine design - Maila Sepri. Voith Hydro Ocean Current Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
15.30 - 16.30 Coffee / Tea break
16.30 Video: profiler deployment at a high current site - a low tech approach - Richard Keen. Guernsey Fisheries
16.40 Scaled testing of tidal turbines - controlled condition lake towing test wake studies - Mairead Atcheson. Queen's University Belfast
17.10 Aquadopp II: A Step Improvement in tidal turbine flow measurements - Ketil Horn. Nortek A/S
17.10 - 17.30 Discussion and Summary

The above programme may be modified between now and the Symposium dates.

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but cannot be held responsible for the consequences of any such modifications.