Advanced Marine Renewable Energy - 2019 entry

In ENE3003, Marine Renewable Energy, students obtain general understanding of resource and engineering aspects in marine renewable energy with a focus on wave and tidal energy.

In this module (CSMM404), students develop an advanced understanding of design and installation requirements for Renewable Energy projects offshore. It covers the fields of i) Hydrodynamics, ii) Offshore Structure Design, iii) Risk and Project Management and iv) Resource Characterisation and Consenting.

Prerequisite module: ENE3003, CSM3361 or equivalent

The aim of the module is to provide the student with an advanced understanding of design and installation requirements within the sector of Marine Renewable Energy. In achieving this level of capability, students will develop competence applying hydrodynamic load calculations to fixed and floating structures, offshore anchoring and modelling methodologies to fixed and floating structures, the implementation of recognised design codes, routinely applied risk and project management skills and required procedures related to the resource characterisation and consenting. Students will develop some competence to computational design tools that are routinely adopted in industry, for analysis and design tasks.

Module Specific Skills and Knowledge:

On successful completion of this module, you should be able to:

1. Understand, in detail, resource characterisation for engineering design, servicing and power conversion;
2. prepare hydrodynamic load calculations that are fit-for-purpose to support the design of fixed and floating offshore structures;
3. competently undertake response analyses of fixed and floating structures;
4. design an offshore structure to recognised design codes;
5. comprehend offshore risk and project management;

Discipline Specific Skills and Knowledge:

6. recognise developing technologies related to Marine Renewable Energy;
7. use mathematical and computer models applied in the offshore industry and develop an appreciation of their abilities and limitations;
8. understand concepts from other offshore engineering disciplines, wider engineering and some areas outside engineering and apply them effectively in marine renewable energy engineering projects;
9. apply theoretical principals and computer-based models for solving problems in offshore engineering applications;
10. extract data pertinent to an application of offshore installations, using computer based engineering tools when appropriate;
11. demonstrate knowledge of design processes and standards required for this installation of an offshore structure;
12. understand current practice and its limitations for Marine Renewable Energy, with some appreciation of likely new developments;
13. employ offshore engineering management techniques taking account of a range of commercial and industrial constraints.

Personal and Key Transferable/ Employment Skills and  Knowledge:
 

14. define a problem and identify constraints including environmental, health and safety and risk assessment issues within the offshore context;
15. appreciate offshore management and business practices, and their limitations, and how these may be applied appropriately;
16. make general evaluations of commercial risks through some understanding of the basis of such risk;
17. show awareness of appropriate codes of practice and industry standards.

- Waves in offshore engineering;

- viscous wave loads;

- wave forces on small and large bodies;

- dynamic response of fixed and floating structures;

- station keeping of fixed and floating structures;

- dynamic mooring analysis tool (OrcaFlex);

- offshore design standards and their application;

- offshore risk and project management;

- Marine operation project management software (Mermaid); 

- offshore design process, offshore installation and maintenance process, identify and mange cost drivers;

- Licensing and consenting procedures;

1 piece of individual coursework, 6000 words, 100%

Basic reading:                                                     

ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/

Web based and electronic resources:

OrcaFlex – Mooring analysis software

Mermaid – Marine operations planning software

Matlab/Python – programming for data alnalysis

Other resources:

15m Current flume test facility

‘DevOcean’. Classified MCA Category 2, 10.5m research vessel

Dynamic Marine Component test facility (DMaC)

Reading list for this module: