AW-Energy hosts a workshop for VTT experts on MegaRoller development

Guest blogger: Tuula Mäki, AW-Energy

The workshop was held October 23 at AW-Energy’s test facility in Finland, which features a full scale Power Take-Off unit (PTO) and a wave machine used to simulate real world wave conditions to which the PTO is subjected to. VTT experts were offered an in-depth presentation of the instrumentation of both the wave machine and the PTO during an extensive tour of the facilities.

Participants were excited to see the PTO, the wave machine and the instrumentation as viewing the devices in action helps to understand the requirements and functionalities of the instruments better, providing useful insights for the development work.

Purpose of the workshop was to initiate the design work for the MegaRoller test bench and PTO instrumentation and to define the way VTT instrumentation expertise can be best utilized in the project. This workshop was one in a series of workshops, visits and meetings held to advance the MegaRoller test bench and PTO design work.

• The MegaRoller project will develop and demonstrate a Power Take-Off (PTO) for wave energy converters.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 763959

*SINTEF Energy Research is responsible for the dissemination in the MegaRoller-project.