Marine Renewable Energy Buoy (MRE)
Monitoring system for wind, wave and current assessment
Characteristics
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Float |
Welded steel 18 m3 Draught 9m |
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Mast |
Anodized aluminum, up to 30m |
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Air instrumentation
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- Wind speed and direction on the air column - Meteorological Station - Irradiance - Atmospheric pressure |
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Immersed Instrumentation
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- Multi-parameter probes : - Acoustic |
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On ground instrumentation
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- Current : - Wave : |
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Energy |
Solar panel and batteries |
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Control |
ABIN PLC |
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Communication |
Between ground and float : acoustic modem Between buoy and land : GPRS / UHF / Iridium / Argos |
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Alert and monitoring system |
Data base (indicators, models,…) Alarm software (HMI) |
Applications
The sea is an inexhaustible source of energy but still too little used
Since antiquity, humans use energy from the sea: the wind to move the tides to power mills.
Today is an industrial phase that is emerging. Our growing energy needs, energyresources and reducing carbon will produce our energy properly, lead us naturally turn seaward.
Although these are free and inexhaustible energy, it is still necessary that investments are cost effective for capturing.
NKE, specializing in the design and manufacture of systems for monitoring the marine environment, advises and assists developers in their projects MRE
