Investigating the structural behaviour of the Ocean Battery

Hut, Lennard (2020) Investigating the structural behaviour of the Ocean Battery. Research Project, Industrial Engineering and Management.

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Abstract

Currently, renewable energy is becoming more significant within the total energy generation in the world. The Ocean Grazer company has found an innovative way to store renewable energy from wind farms, by making use of a natural pressure difference found at the bottom of the sea. In this research the structural behaviour of the foundation of the Ocean Battery is investigated for different types of soils. As the Ocean Grazer company currently has no models available to predict the behaviour of the foundation, there is no certainty to know if the system can be fully deployed. The analysis is done through a Matlab model, to predict the behaviour in terms of force, pressure and holding capacity, and a COMSOL model to analyse the structural behaviour in terms of stress and displacement. The soils showed different influences on the foundation structure in terms of force, pressure and holding capacity. The stress and displacement analysis shows that the foundation is not subjected to high enough stress concentrations to be able to let the system fail. The adaptable model obtained in this research shows to be a useful tool to predict the behaviour of the foundations for different scale versions of the foundation system.

Item Type:	Thesis (Research Project)
Supervisor name:	Vakis, A. and Jayawardhana, B.
Degree programme:	Industrial Engineering and Management
Thesis type:	Research Project
Language:	English
Date Deposited:	28 Sep 2020 11:44
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2021 12:33
URI:	https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/23436

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