Mooring of Wave Energy System Using Suction Caisson

Mooring of Wave Energy System Using Suction Caisson

Status: Complete (July 2018 to July 2019)

Supervisors

• Dirk Rijnsdorp
  Visiting Academic, Oceans Graduate School, UWA
• Jana Orszaghova
  Research Fellow, Oceans Graduate School, UWA

• Hugh Wolgamot
  Research Fellow, Oceans Graduate School, UWA
• Raffaele Ragni
  Adjunct Research Fellow, Oceans Graduate School, UWA

• Shiaohuey Chow
  Research Fellow, Oceans Graduate School, UWA

Students

• Brennen Thong
• Daniel Ross
• Mimi Seng

Project Description

This project built upon the recently completed Riverlab project on 'Studying mooring for wave energy system using scaled field trials'. The Swan River was utilised as a model wave basin to investigate the performance of a model wave energy system taut-moored by a suction caisson in sand.

The project involved the following multidisciplinary scopes:

• Measuring and predicting wave climate in Swan River
• Design and response of the resonant floating oscillator and its mooring system
• Installation and performance of suction caisson under environmental loading