
AWS Ocean Energy work in the renewable marine energy sector and have developed an innovative floating wave energy convertor. Their ambition is to develop reliable, affordable and operable offshore power stations. 4c engineers have contributed at every stage of the device development.
As part of the development programme for the AWS-III wave energy convertor, it was determined that a large scale technology demonstrator and test rig of the absorber subsystem was required, to be deployed in a marine environment.
The technology demonstrator consists of a floating concrete caisson, upon which the absorber subsystem, process air pipework and PTO container are mounted. Our engineers were involved at every stage of design, construction, assembly and operation.
Our engineers delivered the design of the complete test rig, including the following elements:
Installed and operational at its site in Scapa Flow, the test rig provides a platform for the following activities necessary for the AWS-III development programme: