Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP180101109
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Controlling coastlines while generating power. The Project aims to produce strategies for protecting coasts from storms using farms of wave-energy machines, which also generate electricity. Increasing lengths of coast need protection as the climate changes, but conventional barriers create permanent environmental impacts and are a sunk cost usually borne by the taxpayer. The Project expects to derive a strategy for the setting of each machine in the farm, so that they collectively absorb or reflect damaging waves under severe conditions. Under normal conditions, enough wave energy to sustain environmental processes would pass through. Sales of electricity would help to pay back the capital cost. Outcomes would include reduced coastal-erosion costs and a low-intermittency energy supply.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 07-2021
End Date: 06-2024
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $427,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Interdisciplinary Engineering | Control Systems, Robotics and Automation | Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Coastal and Estuarine Environments | Wave Energy |
