Members of the Sustainable Energy Research Group recently delivered six papers covering several aspects of tidal energy at the 2nd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference in Tokyo. The conference was held in conjunction with the Grand Renewable Energy International Conference and Exhibition covering all aspects of renewable energy from wind and solar, to micro grids. Professor Bahaj also delivered a paper on the Energy for Development project with the details of the presented papers below.
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- SERG members at AWTEC on the first day.
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- Tokyo Big Sight Conference venue
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- Looking over the Tokyo Big Sight venue from the top.
Professor AbuBakr Bahaj, Dr Luke Myers, Dr Tom Blackmore, Mr Khilan Shah, Mr Brad Keogh and Mr Danny Coles attended the conference and presented some of the latest work from the Sustainable Energy Research Group on tidal energy. The papers covered experimental work on blockage effects and channel aspect ratio, the effects of turbulence on mean loads and wakes, multiple row arrays, and the numerical modelling of large scale arrays. Further details of the presented papers are below.
 Presented Papers
- Bahaj A.S. (2014) Global Marine Energy Technologies – Status and Future Prospects, Keynote Address in Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Tokyo 28 July – 1 August 2014.
- Bahaj A.S., Blunden L.S., James P.A.B, Kanani C., Essendi H., Matthews Z., Falkingham J.C. and George G. (2014) Energy for development: Replication of rural decentralised off-grid electricity generation through technology and business innovation, In Proceedings of the Grand renewable energy international conference and exhibition, Tokyo 28 July – 1 August 2014.
- Blackmore T. and Bahaj A.S., (2014) Turbulence and its effect on the thrust and wake of a porous disc rotor simulator, In Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Tokyo 28 July – 1 August 2014.
- Keogh B., Myers L.E. and Bahaj A.S. (2014) Marine current turbine performance and wake evolution with changes in channel geometry, In Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Tokyo 28 July – 1 August 2014.
- Shah K., Myers L.E. and Bahaj A.S. (2014) Scale experimental modelling of a multiple row tidal array, In Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Tokyo 28 July – 1 August 2014.
- Coles D.S., Blunden L.S. and Bahaj A.S. (2014) Two dimensional depth averaged numerical modelling of large marine current turbine arrays, In Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Tokyo 28 July – 1 August 2014.