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Smartmooring - reliability and energy efficiency by embedded sensing
The Smartmooring project develops sensor-equipped mooring components for marine energy systems. The in-situ sensors will enable data-driven design optimizations, predictive maintenance, and in-operation optimization of energy yield.
About Ocean Energy
Ocean energy captures the power of the world’s oceans, an immense renewable resource. Ocean energy technologies offer a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, contributing to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and helping to combat climate change.
- Wave energy systems convert the energy of surface waves into electricity,
- Tidal energy harnesses the predictable movements of tidal currents.
The marine environment poses unique challenges, requiring robust and resilient technology to withstand the forces of nature.
Many ocean energy systems are moored to the seabed, via mooring components that often form an integral and critical part of the total system.
About Fiber Optic Sensing
Fiber optic sensing is a mature technology sector with applications in most industrial sectors.
Utilizing the optical fiber and its unique properties, it is possible to develop fiber optic sensors to provide data on e.g. strain, temperature, pressure, movement, electrical current, chemistry, and more. The fiber optic sensors can also often be embedded with a minimally invasive footprint.
Sensor-equipped mooring components
By embedding fiber optic sensors into mooring lines and other components, this project aims to gather (close to) real-time data on strain, temperature, and shape of mooring components.
The sensors enables data driven design optimizations, predictive maintenance strategies, and adjustments of operation parameters to maximize energy output.
About the Smartmooring project
The Smartmooring project is a collaboration between Calsens, CorPower Ocean, Minesto, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, University Gustave Eiffel, and the Technical University of Valencia.
The project has been awarded funding within the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) program.
This research is funded by CETPartnership, the Clean Energy Transition Partnership under 2022 CETPartnership joint call for research proposals, co-funded by the European Commission (GA No 101069750) and with the funding organizations detailed on this page. Project ID: Cetp-2022-00382.
The Swedish sub-consortium receives funding from the Swedish Energy Agency. Project ID P2023-00976.
Summary
Project name
Smartmooring
Status
Active
Region
Region Gävleborg
RISE role in project
Coordinator, WP leader and technology development in fiber optic sensing
Project start
Duration
24 months
Total budget
1.500.000 Euro
Partner
Calsens, CorPower Ocean, Minesto, University Gustave Eiffel, Technical University of Valencia
Funders
The Clean Energy Transition Partnership, Swedish Energy Agency
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Supports the UN sustainability goals
7. Affordable and clean energy
