The FloWave TT ocean energy research facility is designed to test physical

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s of marine renewable energy devices, in a combined wave and current environment. The facility is located at

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campus, on Max Born Crescent. It comprises a diameter circular tank, with 168 active-absorbing wave makers around the circumference, and 28 pumps arranged beneath the raisable floor. These allow the creation of multi-directional random waves with current in any direction across the diameter, deep test area. The facility is optimised for approximately 1/10th to 1/40th scale model tests, with scale waves approximately high and with a current of 7

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. Construction of the facility started late in 2010, and was completed in autumn 2013. The opening was on 5 June 2014, with the Energy Minister

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officially opening the facility on 6 August 2014. FloWave TT is a wholly owned subsidiary of the university, and the £10M construction cost of the facility was primarily funded by

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(EPSRC).

Key clients

A number of developers have publicised that they have completed testing of their devices at FloWave, including: * Albatern - WaveNET * QED Naval - SubHub Five of eight projects from the

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Novel Wave Energy Converter Call were tested at FloWave, with the others being tested in the towing tank at

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. * Quoceant - Ectacti-hull * Joules Energy * Mocean Energy * Albatern - WaveNET Series 12 * AWS Ocean Energy - Advanced Archimedes Waveswing *

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References

External links

FloWaveTT Website
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