• WEBINAR #1 - MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES : OFFSHORE WIND & OCEAN ENERGIES

    • Webinar #1:

      DEC 10 2020 - 11 :00 AM time of Paris

    • Franck SCHOEFSFranck SCHOEFS
       

      Prof. Franck Schoefs is Full Professor at Nantes Université and Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Federation "Sea and Littoral Research Institute" (IUML), with more than 19 research unites and 650 people. He has supervised more than 30 PhD students to completion. He was Director of the MSc programme in Civil Engineering at UoN (2010-2018). He has lectured widely on reliability analysis and organised Continuing Professional Development courses on this subject; he has also organised courses on marine renewable energy for practising engineers as the leader of the WEAMEC (WEst Atlatinc Marine Energy Community) training programme.

      Jean-Christophe GILLOTEAUX‪Jean-Christophe GILLOTEAUX
       

      PhD Ecole Centrale of Nantes - Department of Fluid Mechanics and Energetics

    • Abstract

      Renewable energy needs are expressed on all continents. The webinar will review these perspectives, the state of the art and the ambition of the European Union. The webinar will focus on the strengths of Offshore Wind and Ocean energy by making the link with the technologies developed in the Oil and Gas sector (theme #2). In particular, the assessment of world resources and the level of maturity of the main technologies will be presented: tidal energy, wave converters, ocean thermal energy converters and wind energy. The webinar will present shortly the principles of these technologies and will focus on the main ones: bottom fixed and floating wind turbines. In less than 30 years, offshore wind became a worldwide industry with one of the fastest growth rate of the energy sector. Current and planned developments will be presented. This webinar will also présent the advantages of the emerging technology of Floating  Wind Turbines. An introduction to Multi-Use Offshore Platforms will be offered, in connection with theme #4.

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      • Answer the quiz (restrict access)

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