Testing devices and technologies for the offshore renewable energy sector and beyond, FloWave supports developers move from laboratory to ocean.
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FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility retweeted
16 May 2024
#TBT to @TheSlowMoGuys making a splash @FloWaveOcean! 🦆
Watch @GavinFree and Dan film waves in slow motion 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=iWKFPTgk… #engineering
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FloWave staff will be joining the @EdinInnovations team at @AllEnergy. Please come and speak to us at stand F55 to find out more about how we can support your tank testing requirements, and hear how we have been helping the industry for the last decade.
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FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility retweeted
14 May 2024
Our @FloWaveOcean has offered companies a unique testing environment for a decade! Hear from @moceanenergy & @Orbitalmarine who have accelerated their tech and advanced #SustainableEnergy production with us.
➡️ edin.ac/3K000MR
Orbital photos courtesy of @Orbitalmarine.
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FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility retweeted
1 Mar 2024
It is with great sadness that we announce the recent passing of Professor Stephen Salter MBE FRSE, Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design.
Learn more about Stephen's remarkable impact on industry and society: edin.ac/3TiEM2e
Photo © Martin McAdam
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We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Prof Stephen Salter. FloWave would not exist without his pioneering work, and we will miss him. His legacy will not just be in the technologies he developed, but also in a generation (or more!) of skilled engineers he trained.
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FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility retweeted
20 Dec 2023
Why do we need wind turbines that float? 🌊
Learn why our team at @FloWaveOcean is working with #industry to develop next-generation #OffshoreWind devices which could help the UK meet its pressing #NetZero targets.
edin.ac/41wISq3
@EdinInnovations @EdSust @IEEESpectrum
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This Saturday (23 September) we'll be running demonstrations of the test tank from 11am to 2pm as part of @ColSciEng #DoorsOpenDay. Drop by to see how we replicate sea states from offshore renewable energy sites from around the world (plus some wave "party tricks"!).
18 Sep 2023
Want to go behind the scenes @ColSciEng? Join us for #DoorsOpenDay on Saturday 23 September 2023!
🌊 See our @FloWaveOcean facility's wave tank in action
💡 Meet students working on #rocketry, #hyperloop, #robotics, #sustainable engineering & more
edin.ac/45Nz6B8
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Happy #NationalEngineeringDay to all our collaborators in @SchoolOfEng_UoE and beyond! As we get ready to enter our tenth year of operation it's great to see researchers in both academia and industry continuing push advances in #OceanEnergy and tank testing.
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Congratulations to Stiesdal Offshore, whose Tetrasub technology has been selected for the Pentland Offshore Wind Farm. Looking forward to seeing this technology make the journey from the lab to the sea! @HenrikStiesdal
@marine_alliance pentlandfloatingwind.com/ons… #floatingwind
ALT Stiesdal TetraSub scale model being tank tested at FloWave
ALT Render of the Stiesdal TetraSub at sea
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This collaborative work under the @MaRINET2_EU programme was a great experience, furthering tank testing knowledge for #WaveEnergy and expanding the international network of our reseachers.
29 Sep 2022
#RecommendedPaper
#HighlyCitedPaper
Round Robin Testing: Exploring Experimental Uncertainties through a Multifacility #Comparison of a Hinged Raft #Wave_Energy_Converter mdpi.com/1251388 #mdpijmse via @JMSE_MDPI @EdinburghUni
#Tank_Testing; #Irregular_Waves
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We've been saying goodbye to our
@SchoolOfEng_UoE summer interns as the new teaching semester rolls around. Many thanks to Shaun Fraser, who worked hard on updating the content of our website, including examples picked from our portfolio of ORE projects. flowave.eng.ed.ac.uk/home
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FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility retweeted
18 Aug 2022
The future leaders in the #offshoreengineering visited Mocean!
The DOT @tudelft students had lots of curiosities about #offshore renewable energy, and @FloWaveOcean switched on the "wacky wave" setting for testing survivability in our Blue Horizon #WEC.
Thanks @wavetankthomas!
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FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility retweeted
11 Jul 2022
Watch the progress of our tank testing at the @FloWaveOcean, during the 1st Phase of our @EuropeWave_EU Project!
Chris Retzler, our Technical Director, shares a few words on the process.
@WaveEnergyScot, @OceanEnergyEU, @EMEC_Ltd, @bimep_sa
#GreenEnergyOutOfTheBlue #waveenergy
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FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility retweeted
7 Jul 2022
Mocean Energy Starts Tank Testing Models for 250kW Wave Energy Machine zpr.io/xwSym7qcYLBX
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You may have seen the "FloWave Spike" before, but did you know that the science behind it is contributing to knowledge on wave breaking in the ocean? Through studying these crossing seas we aim to understand implications for maritime safety. #WorldOceansDay
8 Jun 2022
🌊 | New spike wave video
Researchers studying wave breaking have found that axisymmetric ‘spike waves’ can far exceed limits that were previously thought to dictate the maximum height of ocean waves.
More info ➡️ ox.ac.uk/news/2022-06-08-gra…
#WorldOceansDay
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FloWave and #FASTBLADE are again pleased to feature in the @heraldscotland review of Scotland's Renewable sector. Learn how the facilities work together within @SchoolOfEng_UoE to provide research solutions to the tidal energy sector.
edition.pagesuite-profession…
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How well do experimental assessments of wave energy converters at different test tanks compare? We were able to explore this through a unique 'round robin' programme under the @MaRINET2_EU project with our international partners @PlymUni @MaREIcentre @CentraleNantes @IHCantabria
8 Apr 2022
#RecommendedPaper
#EditorsChoicePaper
Round Robin Testing: Exploring Experimental Uncertainties through a Multifacility Comparison of a Hinged Raft #Wave_Energy_Converter
By Thomas Davey, et al.
🔎mdpi.com/2077-1312/9/9/946
📌#tank_testing; #comparison; #irregular_waves
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FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility retweeted
7 Dec 2021
🎉Congrats to the 7 successful #waveenergy projects selected for the 1st stage of the innovative Pre-Commercial Procurement programme!
They'll receive a budget of €2.4M to further develop their #wave #energy device concepts in the next 6months.
Read PR👉bit.ly/EUwave-PR1
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FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility retweeted
29 Oct 2021
A great piece on the work being done at @FloWaveOcean at @SchoolOfEng_UoE - scale model testing plays an integral role in rapidly & cost-effectively optimising our technology. 👍 heraldscotland.com/business_…
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