SPECIALIST ENGINEERING FEATURE
CRITICAL SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES BOOST EFFICIENCY OF POSEIDON OFF-SHORE WAVE AND WIND TURBINE PLANT
system on its innovative Poseidon prototype situated off the coast of Lolland, Denmark.
The command and control solution, provided by Critical, provides advanced monitoring functionalities on key components, sending early alerts to the Poseidon team, warning them of potential problems on the plant so they can be resolved before they cause severe disruption or damage.
TECHNOLOGY
This is done by combining Critical’s csEMS technology, which provides optimised asset management support tools, with PRODDIA, a leading structural systems health management solution, also from within the Critical Group.
The systems measure against such parameters as wave height and wind direction, to accurately calibrate the stresses on the platform.
In December 2012, the UK
government committed to purchasing up to 2% of the energy it uses from green sources, in a new “Energy for Growth” initiative. Currently, the Government Procurement Service (GPS) buys what amounts to 3% of the UK’s total energy demand. This policy will see a pilot scheme in 2013, buying 2% of that £1.5bn per annum GPS budget being spent on renewable energy. For many, this is a much needed step towards our investment in renewable energy sources.
POSEIDON In 1999, Floating Power Plant first developed Poseidon, a concept for an integrated floating power plant that generates electricity from both wave and wind energy. The wave energy plant serves as a floating foundation for offshore wind turbines, thus creating a sustainable energy hybrid.
CONDITION MONITORING One area that needs to be streamlined and efficient is the technology deployed to monitor the structural health of, for example, dynamic load-bearing components in wave generators. In 2011, Floating Power Point tasked Critical Software Technologies to develop an advanced Integrated Condition Monitoring
KEY ISSUES
Operation, maintenance and survivability are key issues when working off-shore and a traditional, simplistic approach to monitoring and maintaining the health of critical equipment and software is simply not good enough.
MEETING THE CHALLENGE If the challenge of switching to renewable energy sources is to be met, then it is essential that projects such as Poseidon are undertaken, for failure could not be blamed entirely on government policies.
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