Reliability guidance for marine energy developers
The Reliability in a Sea of Risk (RiaSoR) project has published new guidance advising on the assessment of reliability in marine energy converters.
Available to download from RiaSoR’s website (www.riasor.eu), the ‘Reliability Guidance for Marine Energy Converters’ report transfers experience in the application of Variation Mode and Effect Analysis (VMEA) from the automotive and aerospace industries to the ocean energy sector.
Developed by SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, in association with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) and the ORE Catapult Development Services Ltd (ODSL), the new reliability methodology looks at the design criteria for marine energy converters.
A workshop was held in Glasgow earlier this month to provide an overview and training on the use of the new methodology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08dgfHaVN1s&t=3s
The RiaSoR project is funded by the Ocean Energy European Research Area Network (OCEANERA-NET) First Joint Call 2014, in association with Scottish Enterprise, InnovateUK and the Swedish Energy Agency.
By Anne-Marie Causer
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