
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 AWS-III product development and qualification process, Our engineers produced technical documentation to specify and design a full-scale prototype wave energy converter for deployment and testing at EMEC. A comprehensive Front End Engineering Design (FEED) process was undertaken to produce an Invitation to Tender package of specifications and drawings.
A Systems Engineering approach was applied to the AWS-III FEED activities. The primary requirements of the product were first identified in order to determine subsequent sub-systems to fulfil the complete product specification:
The FEED activities included the following main work packages:
The FEED activities allowed AWS to progress through the stage gate review process by: