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Dr Shayan Sharifi, Research associate
shayan.sharifi@strath.ac.uk
Project title: Reducing the Costs of Marine Renewables via Advanced Structural Materials (ReC-ASM)
There are great aspirations for marine renewables to make a major contribution to the UK’s future energy mix. However due to the extreme nature of the marine environment there are many challenges to be addressed before this can become a reality. In order for this to be realised, one of the main challenges relates to the development and production of robust, durable and economically viable marine energy converters in order that the energy generated is cost competitive with other forms of renewable energy technologies. The aim of the project is development of new technological approaches and investigative techniques to improve the performance and durability of the materials used in the power capture and conversion interface, through the evaluation of Tribology and Tribo-Corrosion performance. This involves investigating impact new materials, coated and hybrid structures, and effects of engineering configurations on the performance of the power capture and conversion interface of marine energy converters; and evaluating the structural integrity and durability of these through analytical and physical modelling, to include fluid-structure interactions, impacts on mechanical loading, and the Tribology and Tribo-Corrosion testing of materials. The work will include integrating sensors/instrumentation research in the area of hybrid foil sections used in the power capture interface to evaluate mechanical integrity and durability within components and sub-systems, devising the marine energy converter, and theoretical and experimental evaluation of performance when operating in the more extreme marine environments e.g. combined wind/ wave enhanced tidal flows.
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