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Dartmouth Wave Energy Ltd presented Searaser to community members.
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The innovative concept of the proposed converter by HWET is aimed to low cost electric power production. The converter is a linear type attenuator. Unlike any known machine so far its operation is based in the mediation of water between sea waves and a chain from pairs of buoys. Both the mediated water and the buoys are enclosed in a hermetically sealed "floating tube". As the tube interacts with the waves, the buoys are moving up and down and by means of proper transmission mechanism they activate an electric generator enclosed also in the "floating tube". The development and commercialization of a low cost converter for exploitation of the enormous wave energy potential, is beneficial not only for countries with high wave energy potential, but even for countries with moderate wave energy potential and long coast line, as for example, Greece, Japan, etc. Therefore, an ambitious project leading to the development of a low-cost wave-energy converter is a challenge and any possible joint venture would be very welcomed.
Contact: alexandrosanastassiadis@gmail.com
Animations: http://youtu.be/33nXbjlpam4
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Searaser Write Up
1. community energy meeting write-up
Transition Town Dorchester Energy Group
Steve Atkins
SEARASER
Wave Energy Converter
by Dartmouth Wave Energy Ltd
version 1.0
3. 1. Introduction
29th October 2009
Dartmouth Wave Energy Ltd presented Searaser to community members.
The meeting was hosted by Transition Weymouth and Portland and 34 people attended.
Searaser is a fascinating new British invention by Alvin Smith of Dartmouth Wave Energy
Ltd (DWE), designed to float at sea as a wave energy converter to provide clean
renewable energy on demand.
The device works by bobbing up and down in the sea working on a piston. There are two
floats, one held at a fixed depth by an anchor chain, and the larger one floating up and
down on the swells. As a result of this up and down action sea-water is pumped in both
directions under pressure to a higher ground, where it can be stored in a holding tank.
From the holding tank / or reservoir the sea-water can be released back downhill through a
hydro-electric-turbine to produce renewable electricity, before finally returning back to sea.
DWE claim 11,000 full size Searaser’s could power all UK domestic demand (although
they do not envisage that number being deployed in UK waters). The Large Scale 1200
Searaser device is forecast to output 932kW, (1MW of electricity would be enough to
power 1,700 homes).
The inventor Alvin Smith, and his colleague Geoff White, calculate that one full-size device
would be able to pump enough water to keep 1,720 homes supplied with electricity [at
13kWh per home per day]
Local area key statistics:
Dwelling Renewable
% Energy
Energy Energy
Area Population Dwellings Efficient
MW per MW per
Dwellings
annum annum
Dorchester 18000 8500 ? ? ?
Weymouth 53000 25000 ? ? ?
Portland 13000 5500 ? ? ?
Dorset is in a position to seriously consider how it might
• become more energy efficient
• invest to generate community owned renewable electricity.
The alternative could be steeply rising energy costs supplied by the big energy companies.
To power 33,700 homes in Weymouth and Portland would require about 18MW.
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4. Comparable costs to produce electricity
Cost/
[figures from Searaser presentation]:
Type pence per
kWh
Searaser DWE manufactured a small scale prototype of Searaser
1200 1.6p which was trialled in April 2009 and proved to be
(forecast) successful, they have not yet made and therefore tested
the larger scale 1200 device.
Nuclear 2.4p
Alvin Smith and his co-director Geoff White feel that
Gas 2.5p manufacture of the device would not be as demanding as
with some other devices.
Onshore They also hope for new jobs for people in the Weymouth &
3.2p
Wind Portland area if Searaser could be manufactured and
deployed there.
Coal 3.3p
Offshore DWE Ltd applied for support from The Carbon Trust -
5.5p completed a lot of forms - got sent another batch to
Wind
complete - before becoming disheartened with the level of
Biomass 6.8p bureaucracy. They have also contacted members of
parliament for support of the Searaser project.
On 29th October 2009 DWE Ltd met with Weymouth Council planning department who
were very positive towards the project, but said it is not something the Council can fund.
“There are features of the Searaser design which I feel give it the
edge over its competitors, and I do hope they succeed.
There is a lot to be done before electricity can be generated on a
significant scale, and I do hope that financial and other support can
be found within the UK...
In the past too many British inventions have been left to other
nations to exploit. I am not convinced that enough has been done to
reverse this tendency.”
Transition Weymouth & Portland
Independent organiser of the Searaser meeting;
David Smith
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5. 2. Practical Tests
Quotes from the inventor
“In 2007 and 2008 we pumped water to heights of 20 to 50
metres using Renewable Energy only.
I have found no prior work in the UK that has achieved this
using wave power, not even at University level.
We have a simple but clever pump that works very well
and will scale up to what will prove to be an optimum size
for a particular location. This size will become apparent
once various scale sizes have been tested but I believe it
will have in the region of an 800mm to 1200mm diameter
piston.
I do not agree with putting electrics in the sea and that is
why I am following a sea hydraulics device.”
Alvin Smith / DWE
“I regularly go to the hill at Blackpool Sands on the South Devon Coast, where
the beach is protected from the South Westerly approaches, situated in the
North within Start Bay. This hill location in April of 2009 where with just a slight
sea, I stood with Sir Geoffrey Newman the Owner, watching the achievement of
the pumping of sea water from a Searaser 500 yards out at sea, using
purely Swell Clean Renewable Energy. Sir Geoffrey, I am sure, would be happy
to verify this.”
Alvin Smith / DWE
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6. 3. Scientific
energy group member feedback
“I find your achievements so far with the 83mm version of Searaser to be
clever and impressive. Searaser will no doubt benefit from scaling up in size
dependent on the situation in which they are deployed.
I would like to point out a few salient scientific facts about available
wave power to inform your decisions about how far to scale up to the 1/4
size and 1200mm version;
with reference to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power :
• Wave power resource for a clean wave train of 3m amplitude several
km offshore is 36kW per metre of coastline. This may not be available
very often near Portland, Dorset.
• A small fraction of the wavepower can be extracted by a given device,
especially in a confused sea.
• The wikipedia URL suggests that mean power would be less than 10%
of peak design power output. (Similar to wind turbines being 20-25%).
• A flotation buoy that is much larger than the wavelength will have
upthrust and downthrust forces at the same time causing a drop off in
performance. A 500 tonne ship is only lifted by the longest of waves
(we’re not talking tides here).
• If you have an array of buoys, the energy extracted by the first row will
not be available to subsequent rows (not important if the energy
extracted is small or the buoys well separated).
• The Pelamis website says that all the recoverable wave power
resource around the UK would only provide about 20% of UK
electricity demand.
• You claim that 11000 full size Searasers could provide the whole of UK
electricity demand (41 GW); I believe this deserves further research.
I trust you find my independent observations to be constructive towards
further projections.”
Dr G Stevenson/ Oceanographer/ TTD Energy Group
Wave power formula In
deep water where the
water depth is larger than
half the wavelength, the
wave energy flux is:
response from the inventor Alvin Smith DWE
“I have read a lot of research for the past three years by people swapping theory.
Our reference to 11,000 Searaser's supplying UK demand would be possible if 11,000 full
sized Searaser's were working at full output.
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7. The Interesting question to me is of the theory:
• Why are waves or swells given an extraction of Kilowatts available in a particular
wave or swell when Wave Energy Converter devices extract the energy in different
ways?
For example a device such as the Pelamis (wave energy sea snake) could be seen as the
first tank obstructing the energy to the tank behind because the first tank extracted the
energy, but in reality this does not happen as the swell continues due to the pressure and
weight of water either side retaining the varying height of swell continuing along the body
of the device along it's length, to provide the dynamic and varying buoyancy heights for the
further extraction of energy, by the second and third tanks.
Other Wave Energy Converters (WEC) extract the energy in other ways.
I have studied the lone Searaser lift as the swell passes under it and the swell "non
deformed" continues in it's original form and height. Whilst a larger, say five
metre diameter, float with matched buoyancy to the designed increase in weight will
react similarly in pumping water pressure. At the point where a VERY LARGE diameter
float could not follow down into the trough and risks "bridging" the swell; I agree the
Searaser wave float would be too large for the swell and subsequent trough.
It is for this reason we will try the quarter size first and only then go to approximately a
1200mm piston to compare whether it produces a four times output of the quarter size.
Practical real time Sea tests are the absolute answer to all these questions, this is where
Searaser's modular system made up of independent units is so much more economical to
carry out these real world tests, to prove Searaser's viability.
A breaking wave obviously loses nearly all of it's energy on breaking, but swell travels
on. Most sea defences used are of the barrier break water type which effectively have to
block the path of swells and waves to dissipate their powerful energy. It is for this reason I
have found that devices that use swell as the energy as opposed to breaking wave energy,
appear to be more economical in utilising energy extraction and this so far is the reason
that Searaser is at this stage is showing this conversion efficiency.
If we deploy two Searaser's and monitor these very precisely by ejecting water through the
top of the Searaser firstly through a preset pressure valve and secondly through
a calibrated flow meter we leap frog all theories and predictions of wave amplitude and
deliver exactly what the device is capable of in that particular preferred location, this will
also be interesting to watch as it will also be a visible display from the shore, bearing in
mind the water passes through a preset pressure valve and flow meter before ejecting the
water into the air.
I am currently completing the engineering drawings in 2-D and 3-D CAD, and in January
2010 we will be ready to manufacture these first two quarter size by volume Searaser's
(visibly half size).
By end of March 2010 they will be available for deployment if permission from all the
necessary departments have been obtained and funding has been successful.”
Alvin Smith / DWE
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8. 4. Comments arising from the presentation
• Concerns that only a small prototype of Searaser has so far been manufactured
• The sea- trial for the prototype was within a short period of time
• There are issues to be faced in development of Searaser, therefore risk in investment
• Positive support for the idea, would really like to see further research & development
• Concern about anchoring to the seabed / not investigated Portland area seabed
conditions / would a large version Searaser require a single or multiple anchor?
• as far as I'm aware there are no wave devices anywhere in the world that have yet
reached large-scale commercial operation, although many have worked well on the
small-scale
• The simplicity of the design makes it more probable that it will prove scaleable than
some other technologies
5. Further Reading & References
Searaser
Searaser/ Dartmouth Wave Energy website: http://dartmouthwaveenergy.com/
June 2009 Guardian: http://tinyurl.com/mqvh4u
April 2009: BBC Spotlight video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7990179.stm
Nov 2008 IET http://kn.theiet.org/magazine/issues/0820/push-and-pull.cfm
Nov 2008 Times: http://tinyurl.com/5n8tnj
Sept 2008: BBC Spotlight video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7608630.stm
Feb 2008: BBC Spotlight video: http://tinyurl.com/yaqa5qm
Searaser patent: http://tinyurl.com/y9klds8
Other references
Dorset area key statistics: http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=332791
Pelamis Wave Energy Converter / sea-snake): http://www.pelamiswave.com/
Oyster Wave Energy Converter: http://www.aquamarinepower.com/technologies/
Wave power, wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power
Carbon Trust: http://www.carbontrust.co.uk
Ceto: http://www.carnegiecorp.com.au/
Transition Network: http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/TransitionNetwork
Transition Weymouth & Portland: http://www.transitiontown-news.org/
Transition Town Dorchester: http://transitiontowndorchester.org/
Summary
This community meeting write-up is independent and not-for-profit.
It’s purpose has been to investigate Searaser as a potential solution towards:
• significantly building resilience (in response to peak oil)
• drastically reducing carbon emissions (in response to climate change)
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