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OpTiCA

Optimisation of Tidal energy Converter Arrays

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Project "OpTiCA" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE Organization address address: CAMPUS DE PENHA city: FARO postcode: 8005 139 website: www.ualg.pt contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Portugal [PT]
Project website	http://msca-optica.eu/
Total cost	148˙635 €
EC max contribution	148˙635 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-RI
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-07-01 to 2019-06-30

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE UNIVERSIDADE DO ALGARVE Organization address address: CAMPUS DE PENHA city: FARO postcode: 8005 139 website: www.ualg.pt contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	PT (FARO)	coordinator	148˙635.00

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Project objective

As technology readiness level of Tidal Energy Converters (TECs) increases, moving from prototype demonstration to commercialisation, research efforts are focusing on TEC arrays layout optimisation to reduce costs and become competitive in comparison with other energy systems. Even though there are several prototypes of different scales that have been tested on the last years (mostly under controlled conditions) there is limited data on deployments in real conditions which negatively affects the accurate formulation of constrained problems on array schemes resulting on incomplete layout optimisation models. This project aims to provide a significant contribution towards the understanding of (a) the effects of TECs interactions with the environment; (b) the capabilities and limitations of common strategies used for the numerical modelling of TECs; and (c) how to mathematically formulate optimisation models to solve the TEC array layout problem considering technical, socio-economic and environmental constraints. From the methodology point of view, constraint optimisation models will be mathematically formulated considering ocean energy protocols, data collected from in-field measurements of prototypes tested in real environments and with surrogates built from validated numerical simulations. The outcomes of the project will contribute to improve common guidelines and standards for licensing tidal energy projects and de-risk financial investment. The Experienced Researcher (ER) will emerge from the project with an in-depth knowledge of tidal stream energy, training in mathematical optimisation and on new skills in data collection, increased competence on numerical modelling, and strong skills in research project management and coordination. This will grant him the capacity of achieving maturity as a researcher on ocean energy, a new emerging sector with great growth potential.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2020	C. Soares, A. Pacheco, F. Zabel, E. GonzÃ¡lez-GoberÃ±a, C. Sequeira Baseline assessment of underwater noise in the Ria Formosa published pages: 110731, ISSN: 0025-326X, DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110731	Marine Pollution Bulletin 150	2020-04-03
2018	A. Pacheco, E. GorbeÃ±a, T.A. Plomaritis, E. Garel, J.M.S. GonÃ§alves, L. Bentes, P. Monteiro, C.M.L. Afonso, F. Oliveira, C. Soares, F. Zabel, C. Sequeira Deployment characterization of a floatable tidal energy converter on a tidal channel, Ria Formosa, Portugal published pages: 89-104, ISSN: 0360-5442, DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2018.06.034	Energy 158	2019-11-14
2019	C. Sequeira, A. Pacheco, P. Galego, E. GorbeÃ±a Analysis of the efficiency of wind turbine gearboxes using the temperature variable published pages: 465-472, ISSN: 0960-1481, DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2018.12.040	Renewable Energy 135	2019-11-14
2019	Johanne Tomine VARTDAL, Raad Yahya QASSIM, BÃ¸rge MOKLIEV, Guttorm UDJUS, Eduardo GONZÃLEZ-GORBEÃ‘A Optimal configuration problem identification of electrical power cable in tidal turbine farmÂ via traveling salesman problem modeling approach published pages: 289-296, ISSN: 2196-5625, DOI: 10.1007/s40565-018-0472-7	Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy 7/2	2019-11-14
2018	Pacheco, A., GorbeÃ±a, E., Plomaritis, T., & Sequeira, C. Lessons learned from E1 Evopod Tidal Energy Converter deployment at Ria Formosa, Portugal. published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	7th International Conference on Ocean Energy, Cherbourg, France	2019-11-14
2018	Eduardo GonzÃ¡lez-GorbeÃ±a, AndrÃ© Pacheco, Theocharis A. Plomaritis, Ã“scar Ferreira, ClÃ¡udia Sequeira Estimating the optimum size of a tidal array at a multi-inlet system considering environmental and performance constraints published pages: 292-311, ISSN: 0306-2619, DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.09.204	Applied Energy 232	2019-11-14
2017	Eduardo GonzÃ¡lez-GorbeÃ±a, AndrÃ© Pacheco, Theocharis A. Plomaritis, ClÃ¡udia Sequeira Assessing the Effects of Tidal Energy Converter Array Size on Hydrodynamics of Ria Formosa (Portugal) published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	Proceedings of the12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Cork, Ireland	2019-11-14

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