The document summarizes an offshore wind and marine energy workshop held in Bilbao, Spain on February 28, 2012. It discusses several organizations involved in offshore renewable energy activities in the Cantabria region of Spain, including IH Cantabria, Idermar, and CTC. IH Cantabria conducts research, education, and technology transfer related to marine renewable energies. Idermar is developing floating wind measurement systems for deep waters. CTC supports renewable energy projects through its testing laboratories and technological expertise.

1. Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad
de Cantabria
Environmental Hydraulics Institute
http://www.ihcantabria.com
Dr. Raúl Guanche García
guancher@unican.es

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INDEX
1. IH Cantabria
1. Short presentation
2. Marine renewable activities
3.Cantabria international campus of excellence
2.Idermar
1 Current status
1.Current
2.Precomercial prototype
3.Future activities
3.CTC

3. Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
IH Cantabria
Environmental Hydraulics Institute

4. Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
IH Cantabria
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Environmental Hydraulics Institute
IH Cantabria is a joint research institution between the University of
Spain
Cantabria and the Environmental Hydraulics Institute Foundation, a
non-profit organization.
IH Cantabria has a multidisciplinary staff: civil, industrial and
mechanical engineers, naval architects, biologists, marine Cantabria
scientists, physicists, chemists, mathematicians, geographers,
scientists physicists chemists mathematicians geographers
IT specialists... → 149 members.
IH Cantabria focuses its activities on three fields of
expertise:
– Research
– Education
– Technology transfer

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IH Cantabria
Main research areas Main research areas
• Coastal Oceanography
• Design of coastal structures
• Coastal and port engineering
• Hydraulic engineering
• Effects of Climate Change
• Analysis of geophysical variables
• Oil spill pollution in marine environments
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Eco-hydraulics
• Pollution of marine environments
• Water quality
• Flooding risks
• Marine renewable energies
Main research techniques
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Physical modeling
• Field measuring techniques
• Remote sensing

6. Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
IH Cantabria
Main facilities
Physical modelling (wave basin and flumes)
Multipaddle wave basing Wave flume Wave and current flume
28 m x 8.6 m x 1.2 m 68.5 m x 2 m x 2 m 24 m x 0.6 m x 75 m
Universit of Cantab bria
cilities at
ty
Fac
Wave and current basin
ties at
64 wave paddles
AN
30m x44mx0.2 3m
x44mx0 2-3m
New facilit
PCTCA
Wave
Wind
Currents
Central pit: 11m water depth
Numerical mirror

7. Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
Environmental Hydraulics Institute
Marine renewables energies
IH Cantabria
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Environmental Hydraulics Institute
Marine renewables

8. Marine renewable energies Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
IH Cantabria capabilities
• World wide resource assessment: local, regional and
global scale
■ Wind
■ Wave
■ Current
• Marine conditions assessment
■ Hindcast
Hi d t
■ Nowcast
■ Short term and seasonal forecast
■ Climate change
■ Offshore standards applications
• Physical modeling and numerical modeling of:
■ Offshore fixed platforms
■ Floating structures
• Design and optimization of wave energy devices
• Design and optimization of wind/waves offshore farms
layout
• Marine renewable environmental impacts assessment
• Operational system and life cycle analysis of marine
renewable structures
■ Planning
■ Construction
■ Operation and maintenance

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Offshore marine renewables
Design espiral
Design requirements:
Environmental, operational, technical, …
Parametric studies:
Economical feasibility assessment
Design alternatives analysis
CAPEX – OPEX analysis
General arrangements: Farm layout design
Mooring system, structures,… Energy production assessment
Stability analysis Manufacturing analysis
Structural analysis
Hydrodynamic analysis Mooring system analysis
Numerical and physical modeling

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Resource assessment and marine conditions
Offshore wind resource assessment: atlases
m/s
European atlas
Spanish atlas

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Resource assessment and marine conditions
R t d i diti
Wave energy assessment: ENOLA Project
World wide atlas
Spanish atlas
http://www.ihcantabria.com/enola/
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Bilbao, 28th February 2012
Physical d
Ph i l and numerical modeling
i l d li
IH Cantabria Numerical capabilities
• CFD
■ OPENFOAM: Offshore aplications
■ In-house models:
■ Boussinesq: functionality of monopile structures
■ IH2VOF/IH3VOF: Offshore aplications
•Coupled models
■ SESAM
■ In-house models
■ Frequency domain
■ Time domain
Frad (t )   M(t )  Bz (t )   2 M z e it  iB z e it
z  ˆ ˆ
Fexc (t )  Af exc ( )e it
ˆ Fhid (t )  Gz (t )  Gz ( )e it
hidrost ˆ
Fpto (t )   Kz (t )  Dz (t )   K z e it  iD z e it
 ˆ ˆ
ˆ  ˆ ˆ  ˆ 
  2 m z eit  Af exc eit   2 M z e it  iB z eit  G z eit  iD z e it  K z e it
ˆ ˆ ˆ 
  m z  Af exc   M z  iB z  G z  iD z  K z
2
ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ
2
ˆ ˆ ˆ

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Physical d
Ph i l and numerical modeling
i l d li
Physical model versus numerical modeling: calibration
Flotaing met mast example: Idermar
g p
Structure performance:
• Waves
• Currents
• Wind
Mooring system:
• Performance
• Loads
• Fatigue
WAMIT SIMO-RIFLEX SESAM
Heave decay test
2
Lab Hs=2m; Tp=12s
Probabilidad
Moored test Num
1.5
1
Surge(m) – Desplazamiento X
lidad
0.5
m)
Heave(m
Probabil
0
Heave(m) – Desplazmiento Z
-0.5
Probabilidad
-1
-1.5 Pitch(º) – Giro eje Y
100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260 280 300
Tiempo(s) domingo, 19 de febrero de 2012

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Private companies: 83%
Public funding:
Public companies: 17%

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Cantabria I t
C t b i International C
ti l Campus of E
f Excellence
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Local and regional
University Scientific facilities
development
Teaching
Research Innovation
Water and energy campus
and energy

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SEA OF INNOVATION CANTABRIA CLUSTER
• Public private cluster: more than 50 entities
Public‐private cluster: th 50 titi
• First Spanish cluster specialized on marine renewable
• Collaborations with market leaders (Vestas, Siemens,
EDP, Iberdrola Renovables y E.on)
• 40 companies
• 13 R&D groups
• 4 Technological institutes

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IDERMAR
Offshore wind assessment at deep and very deep waters
Innovative solutions

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IDERMAR
Offshore wind assessment at deep and very deep waters
Consortium
IDERMAR is a mixed private-public company set
up by the Cantabria Government through
SODERCAN, ACTIUM, an Investment company of
the APIA XXI Group, the Hydraulics Institute (HI)
of the University of Cantabria (UC) and the
Helium Company.

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Bilbao, 28th February 2012
IDERMAR
Offshore wind assessment at deep and very deep waters
Company objectives
IDERMAR IS developing a new concept called IDERMAR METEO
consisting of an integral wind resource and ocean data
acquisition system based on a floating structure.
-For medium-depth and deep waters
-Easily adaptable to site-specific environmental conditions and
monitoring system requirements established by the customer
-Easily transported and installed reducing economic costs and
environmental impact
-Can be reused
-Certified product
Deployment day:
28th September of 2011

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Bilbao, 28th February 2012
IDERMAR
Offshore wind assessment at deep and very deep waters
Current status
1st prototype: depth=55m, distance from shoreline=3km
2nd prototype: depth=186m, distance from shoreline=16km
p yp p ,
Precomerc prototype
Precomercial prototype: depth=55m, distance from shore=4.8km
otype
cial
1st proto
2nd prototype

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Z=90m
IDERMAR Z=85m
Offshore wind assessment at deep and very deep waters Z=82m
Wind measurement system description:
y p Z=75m
Precomercial prototype
Z=65m
Ultrasonic anemometer
Cup anemometer Z=55m
Temperature
Z=45m
Water temperature
Wind vanes Z=20m
Temperature, Humidity & Barometric pressure
Sampling frequency:
Ultrasonic anemometer, Cup
anemometer, Temperature, Water
, p ,
temperature, Wind vanes
Temperature, Humidity & Barometric
pressure

22. Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
IDERMAR
Offshore wind assessment at deep and very deep waters
Future
• Precomercial prototype:
p yp
■ Certification expected end: June 2012
■ Measurement verification:
• Onshore vs floating met mast comparisons
• UK strategies
■ Narec capital
• Future developments: Floating lidar
■ Grant: Innpacto 2011
p

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Narec capital: Idermar internationalization strategy
Bussiness design and Funding raising
Narec capital vision
European Hub
Centre of R&D
Excellence/Holding Co
N.American Hub
Mid East Hub Far East Hub
S.American
S American Hub

24. Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
Narec capital: Idermar internationalization strategy
Funding raising
Intellectual Investment
Property
Busines ass
B
Manufacture Investment
End to End So
Mitigation
ss sessment
Installation Investment/Cost
Risk M
olution
Maintenance/
Operation Cost
Data Provision Revenue
Data Revenue
Interpretation
Extras Revenue

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Narec capital: Idermar internationalization strategy
Funding raising
Potential Funding Sources
• Industrial corporates • Local Grants
• High Net worth individuals • UK Government competitions
• Venture Capital Funds • Technology Innovation Centre
• Private Equity • Regional Grant Funds

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Cantabria
Other initiatives
Centro Tecnológico de Componentes

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RENEWABLE
CTC is a non‐profit foundation that aims to contribute to
ENERGY economic and social development.
BUSINESS
UNITS NUCLEAR ADVANCED
AEROSPACE AUTOMOTIVE
ENERGY MATERIALS
MEMBERS
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28. Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
CTC is located in
the Scientific and
Technological Park
of Cantabria.
The facilities include a laboratory
with equipment and space
necessary for project
implementation and research:
Corrosion: UV (type A or B)+condensation+spray (ISO 11507),
alternate immersion in marine water (ISO 2812-2 and ISO 11130).
Advanced Materials: AFM, Spray Dryer, Three Rolls Mill.
Aeroespace: two axis rotation table, navigation systems test
facility.
Instrumental: mechanical universal test machine metallographic
machine,
laboratory.
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Renewable Energies Unit
Technological lines of specialization
Fluid Dynamics & Fluid‐ Mechanical and structural design O&M.
structure interaction Monitoring
Aero and Structural Health
Hydrodynamics. Monitoring (SHM)
Aeroelasticity
Corrosion
Data acquisition,
processing and analysis
Energy Harvesting
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30. Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
Representative Projects
 SAEMar: Anchoring Systems for Renewable Marine Energies Offshore
Platforms.
 TIM Intelligent M t
TIM: I t lli t Meteorological M t (SHM)
l i l Mast (SHM).
 TARGET: Environmentally sustainable and intelligent technologies
p p
for the development of composite materials structures.
 Onshore and offshore hybrid steel-concrete towers: mechanical
design, joints.
 Aerodynamic analysis of a mini HAWT through direct CFD
simulation.
 Development of a Energy Harvester for a wireless system.
 Analysis of noise and vibration of electrical machines.
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31. Offshore wind and marine energy workshop.
Bilbao, 28th February 2012
Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Universidad
de Cantabria
Environmental Hydraulics Institute
http://www.ihcantabria.com
Dr. Raúl Guanche García
guancher@unican.es