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COMMUNICATION

SEA-TITAN PROJECT

Surging Energy Absorption Through Increasing Thrust And efficiency

Europe’s 2050 Energy Strategy
Roadmap has established a
target to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions by 80%-
95% compared to 1990 levels and
renewable energy accounting for
at least 64% and up to 97% of the
electricity consumed. A motivated
and well-experienced team from
industry and public institutions has
taken on the challenge to develop a
second-generation linear generator
power take-off solution for Wave
Energy Converters available for free
for everyone based on novel open
hardware business model.

The SEA-TITAN Figure 1: 1st generation multitranslator linear switched reluctance machine
project has received
funding from the partners with strong track record on characteristics that will define the
European Union’s technology. SEA-TITAN business model.
Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement
No. 764014 (call H2020-LCE-2017-
RES-RIA-TwoStage). A total of 11
European entities are involved in the
development of SEA-TITAN for a total
duration of 36 months.

Innovation Open hardware business model State of progress and opportunities
The SEA-TITAN project aims to make Technology developers have felt SEA-TITAN project is in its 24th
a step change in the wave energy compelled to create patents out month of development (March 2020),
sector by designing, building, testing of concern that the big energy great success has been achieved
and validating an innovative second- companies would copy their already: designs are finalized, and
generation Direct Drive Linear Electric technology and then use their prototype fabrication started together
Generator Power Take-Off solution: massive manufacturing, sales and with SIEMENS-GAMESA.
An Azimuthal Multitranslator Linear marketing power to overwhelm
Switched Reluctance Machine these technology developers. They Furthermore, the always expanding
(AMSRM). This development is based couldn’t have been more wrong. The external industrial exploitation
on a new configuration and geometry unfortunate reality is the opposite: board (EIEB) already comprises
of a first generation Multitranslator wave energy programs at the major multiple experts from the areas
Linear Switched Reluctance Machine utilities or independent power of the electricity generation
(figure 1) developed by some of the producers are small to non-existent, utilities, potential final users of the
proponents some years ago. The constituting an average of far less technology, manufacturers and ocean
development aims at achieving high than 0,1% of their total R&D resources. energy stakeholders. Don’t hesitate
continuous and peak force densities By opening the innovation process to to contact us if you are interested
and also high efficiencies with the open source community, SEA- in joining SEA-TITAN project and get
application to multiple wave energy TITAN can benefit on the technology access to the most advanced Power
conversion technologies through side through comments, ideas, Take-Off technology for wave energy.
collaboration with different wave and further developments. Open
energy developers and industrial source and crosscutting are the www.seatitan.eu l

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