Powerkite : Power Take-off System for a Subsea Tidal Kite
This project is funded by:
US-Ireland NSF/SFI/DfE: Control Co-Design of Heterogeneous Arrays of Wave Energy Converters with University of Iowa, USA and University Maynooth. 2021-2024.
Invest-NI: Vertical Axis Tidal Turbines in Strangford with GKinetic, GES and PowerOn 2021-2023.
EPSRC: Flow measurement for accurate tidal turbine design (£97k total, £8.6k to QUB) lead Bath University. 2019-2021.
Horne, N., Culloch, R., Schmitt, P., Lieber, L., Wilson, B., Dale, A., Houghton, J., & Kregting, L. (2021). Collision risk modelling for tidal energy devices: A flexible simulation-based approach. Journal of Environmental Management, 278(1), [111484]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111484
Lieber, L., Nimmo-Smith, W. A. M., Waggitt, J. J., & Kregting, L. (2019). Localised anthropogenic wake generates a predictable foraging hotspot for top predators. Communications Biology, 2(123), [123]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0364-z
Pine, M. K., Schmitt, P., Culloch, R. M., Lieber, L., & Kregting, L. T. (2019). Providing ecological context to anthropogenic subsea noise: Assessing listening space reductions of marine mammals from tidal energy devices. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 103, 49-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2018.12.024
Schmitt, P., Pine, M. K., Culloch, R. M., Lieber, L., & Kregting, L. T. (2018). Noise characterization of a subsea tidal kite. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(5), EL441-EL446. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5080268
Lieber, L., Nimmo-Smith, W. A. M., Waggitt, J. J., & Kregting, L. (2018). Fine-scale hydrodynamic metrics underlying predator occupancy patterns in tidal stream environments. Ecological Indicators, 94(1), 307-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.06.071
Schmitt, P., Culloch, R., Lieber, L., Molander, S., Hammar, L., & Kregting, L. (2017). A tool for simulating collision probabilities of animals with marine renewable energy devices. PLoS ONE, 12(11), [e0188780]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188780
The School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen's University Belfast is one of nine partners involved in this project. Details of all partners are available on the following website:
Powerkite Consortium: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/654438
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The project aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals 7 (Affordable Clean Energy) and 14 (Life below water) to develop clean carbon free energy.
Powerkite website:
Media commentaries and columns on professional matters:
- BBC Coast – (February 2020)
- Tide – Episode 3 Harnessing the Tide (2019)
Current Students working on marine renewables:
- Rosslyn Watret: https://www.quadrat.ac.uk/students/rosslyn-watret/
- Nicholas Horne: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-horne