Sea and river currents monitoring

Kurzfassung

An Italian SME operating in the field of technologies for renewable energy is developing a new device to generate electrical energy from sea and river currents that utilises an innovative solution of kinetic turbines characterised by a multidirectional axis. The company is interested in developing collaborations with research centres that have at disposal data gathered from studies on sea and river currents: speed ( m/s or knots), direction, survey timing, localisation and instrumentation used.

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An Italian SME operating in the field of technologies for renewable energy is developing a new device to generate electrical energy from sea and river currents that utilises an innovative solution of kinetic turbines characterised by a multidirectional axis. The company has already realised two preliminary projects in two different locations in the Mediterranean area and the system is patent pending. The state of the art of the technologies using sea and river currents to generate electrical energy comprises two main way to keep the turbines into the water: structures placed on the dephs or floating structures.
Unlike the systems available on the market the solution foreseen a structure placed on the land in the proximity of the costal area and connected to the sea by a long transmission shaft.

Technical Specifications / Specific technical requirements:
The company is interested in developing collaborations with research centres that have at disposal data gathered from studies on sea and river currents: speed ( m/s or knots), direction, survey timing, localisation and instrumentation used.